The New Chinatown

Examines the growth and social evolution of the Chinese community in the United States and discusses the position of separate Chinese communities in American society, focusing primarily on New York's Chinatown

Business & Money

Kwong, Peter

Economics

Noonday Pr

Newspapers today are filled with stories of corruption and strife in America's Chinatowns, reversing the popular view of Chinese Americans as a model minority of law-abiding, hard-working people whose diligent children end up in high-tech jobs. In The New Chinatown, Peter Kwong goes beyond the headlines in a compelling and detailed account of the political and cultural isolation of Chinese-American communities. This new edition offers a revised and updated text as well as a new chapter on Chinatown in the 1990s.

The New Chinatown: Revised Edition

Hill and Wang

Looks at the history of urban Chinese ghettos, discusses the impact of a recent economic boom on the local Chinese community, and clears up misconceptions about life in New York City's Chinatown

Hill & Wang Pub

Chinatown, N. Y.: Labor and Politics, 1930-1950

History

Americas

Monthly Review+press

Now back in print, the groundbreaking history of the rise and fall of labor movements in New York's Chinatown, updated with a new introduction. Focusing primarily on New York City's Chinatown in the 1930s and '40s, but looking back to the 1840's arrival of Chinese immigrants in America, Peter Kwong documents the turbulent history of Chinese labor in America in a groundbreaking book now available again. Kwong powerfully demonstrates how, excluded from craft unions and gradually driven into urban ghettos, the Chinese settled into a narrow range of jobs, where the merchant elite was able to control the workforce. But in the 1930s, as more industrial jobs became available, new organizations, aided by labor and leftist groups, arose to challenge the existing power structure. In the 1950s, though, as the political climate in the US changed, integration was halted and traditional associations reasserted their rule. Hailed as a "fascinating, pioneering study" by Library Journal when it was first published, this meticulous and elegant book provides crucial insight into the balance of forces in Chinatown, as well as the nature and extent of discrimination against the Chinese within the United States. This edition also includes a new introduction by the author about why a book written twenty years ago is still relevant today.

Fullcolor and blackandwhite photography documents the ChineseAmerican experience, revealing the many ways in which Chinese immigrants and their progeny have navigated the space separating two cultures.

Chinese Americans: The Immigrant Experience

Miscevic, Dusanka

Universe

Hailed by the Philadelphia Inquirer as “a must-read,” Forbidden Workers tells for the first time the full story of recent Chinese immigration to this country. Widely praised from the Wall Street Journal to Asian Week, the book uses the Chinese experience to shed light on broader issues of immigration from countries around the world. Author Peter Kwong has interviewed countless immigrant workers, activists, Chinatown powerbrokers, and “snakeheads” (smugglers who bring immigrants to the United States) and has traveled to China to talk with families of immigrants. The result is an unprecedented look at an invisible community within American society—and at a billion-dollar industry whose commodity is workers who labor under conditions approaching modern slavery.

Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor

The New Press

An expose+a7 of the underground trade in illegal Chinese laborers illuminates the horrible conditions suffered by this immigrant class in America, and the underworld that exploits them for billions in profit. Reprint.

New Press, The

Now back in print, the groundbreaking history of the rise and fall of labor movements in New York's Chinatown, updated with a new introduction and epilogue.

Chinatown, New York: Labor and Politics, 1930-1950

A portrait of Chinese-American life documents the stories of Chinese pioneers who entered the country from the west coast in the mid-nineteenth century, illuminates the roles of Chinese-American transnationals who have shaped American multiculturalism, and considers the roles of Chinese Americans in immigration, globalization, and foreign policy. 15,000 first printing.

Chinese America: The Untold Story of America's Oldest New Community

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Books by Kwong, Peter

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The New Chinatown

The New Chinatown: Revised Edition

The New Chinatown

Chinatown, N. Y.: Labor and Politics, 1930-1950

Chinatown, N. Y.: Labor and Politics, 1930-1950

Chinese Americans: The Immigrant Experience

Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor

Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor

Chinatown, New York: Labor and Politics, 1930-1950

Chinese America: The Untold Story of America's Oldest New Community