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Beyond Chinatown
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Pages: 388
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Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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Examines the history of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, from its obscure 1920s-era origins, through the Colorado River Aqueduct and Stat
Beyond Chinatown
Language: en
Pages: 298
Authors: Mette Thunø
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: NIAS Press

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- A sweeping study of Chinese migration past and present - Highlights the growing pride in their roots among ex-pat Chinese - Of vital interest to migration sch
Beyond Chinatown
Language: en
Pages: 64
Authors: Diana Giese
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: National Library Australia

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Overview of the history of the Chinese in Darwin, based mainly on the oral history of Chinese Australians in the 'Top End', and to a lesser extent on European d
Beyond Literary Chinatown
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Jeffrey F. L. Partridge
Categories: Literary Collections
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American Book Award Winner (Before Columbus Foundation) The phenomenon of "literary Chinatown"--the ghettoization of Chinese American literature--was produced b
Reconstructing Chinatown
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Jan Lin
Categories: History
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In the American popular imagination, Chinatown is a mysterious and dangerous place, clannish and dilapidated, filled with sweatshops, vice, and organizational c