A mesmerizing true story of money, murder, gambling, prostitution, and opium in a "wild ramble around Chinatown in its darkest days." (The New Yorker) Nothing had worked. Not threats or negotiations, not shutting down the betting parlors or opium dens, not house-to-house searches or throwing Chinese offenders into prison. Not even executing them. The New York DA was running out of ideas and more people were dying every day as the weapons of choice evolved from hatchets and meat cleavers to pistols, automatic weapons, and even bombs. Welcome to New York City’s Chinatown in 1925. The Chinese in turn-of-the-last-century New York were mostly immigrant peasants and shopkeepers who worked as laundrymen, cigar makers, and domestics. They gravitated to lower Manhattan and lived as Chinese an existence as possible, their few diversions—gambling, opium, and prostitution—available but, sadly, illegal. It didn’t take long before one resourceful merchant saw a golden opportunity to feather his nest by positioning himself squarely between the vice dens and the police charged with shutting them down. Tong Wars is historical true crime set against the perfect landscape: Tammany-era New York City. Representatives of rival tongs (secret societies) corner the various markets of sin using admirably creative strategies. The city government was already corrupt from top to bottom, so once one tong began taxing the gambling dens and paying off the authorities, a rival, jealously eyeing its lucrative franchise, co-opted a local reformist group to help eliminate it. Pretty soon Chinese were slaughtering one another in the streets, inaugurating a succession of wars that raged for the next thirty years. Scott D. Seligman’s account roars through three decades of turmoil, with characters ranging from gangsters and drug lords to reformers and do-gooders to judges, prosecutors, cops, and pols of every stripe and color. A true story set in Prohibition-era Manhattan a generation after Gangs of New York, but fought on the very same turf.

Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown

History

SELIGMAN, Scott D.

Americas

VIKING

An expert on China reveals the unwritten rules of business protocol which Americans need to know to succeed in the People's Republic.

Dealing with the Chinese

Business & Money

Grand Central Publishing

East-West business is booming as thousands of people flock to China. The author, with 25 years of experience dealing with the Chinese, provides up-to-date advice on how to succeed, avoid gaffes, interpret behaviour and make positive impressions.

Chinese Business Etiquette: A Guide to Protocol, Manners, and Culture in thePeople's Republic of China

Business Culture

This attractive, illustrated Mandarin Chinese phrasebook for travelers has been updated and re-designed. Perfect as a take-along guide for visitors to the Far East, it features city maps, information on public transportation systems, general information for visitors to China, and bilingual lists of more than 1,500 most-often-used words and expressions for travelers, in the form of phonetic spellings of Mandarin words with their English translations. The book’s page edges are color-coded by topic for quick reference.

Mandarin Chinese At A Glance: Foreign Language Phrasebook & Dictionary (Barron's Foreign Language Guides)

Reference

Chen, I-Chuen

Etiquette

Barrons Educational Services

Here is a handy language helper for English-speaking travelers. A bilingual phrasebook is combined with a 90-minute cassette featuring simplified bilingual dialogues in Chinese and English. An accompanying transcript booklet contains printed versions of the tape's dialogues. The language phrasebook, Chinese at a Glance, presents more than 1,500 Chinese expressions with translations that will help English-speaking travelers get around in hotels, airports, train stations, restaurants, and other travel sites. The newly revised edition has been improved with more attractive and useful city maps, availability of ATMs, faxes, and other modern facilities in far-away cities and towns, and much more.

Chinese at a Glance

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Barrons Educational Series

This attractive, illustrated traveler's aid consists of a Mandarin Chinese language phrasebook, Getting By in Mandarin Chinese, with two accompanying audio compact discs. The phrasebook has been updated and re-designed in this new edition. Perfect as a take-along guide for visitors to the Far East, it features city maps, information on public transportation systems, general information for visitors to China, and bilingual lists (phonetic spellings with English translations) of more than 1,500 most-often-used words and expressions for travelers. The book's page edges are color-coded by topic for quick reference. An audio compact disc, which replaces the older cassette tapes in previous editions, give international travelers approximately 70 minutes of bilingual dialogue. They dramatize typical situations and conversations at airports, hotels, stores, taxicabs, and the like. The CD comes with an added bilingual script booklet.

Now You're Talking Mandarin Chinese In No Time (Barron's Foreign Language Guides)

English as a Second Language

Offers English equivalents for more than two thousand Chinese key words and provides useful expressions for banking, shopping, asking directions, obtaining a hotel room, and finding medical care

Chinese at a Glance: Phrase Book and Dictionary for Travelers (English and Chinese Edition)

Chen, I-Chuan

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

B E S Pub Co

Nothing had worked. Not threats or negotiations, not shutting down the betting parlors or opium dens, not throwing Chinese offenders into prison. Not even executing them. The New York DA was running out of ideas, and more people were dying every day as the weapons of choice evolved from hatchets to automatic weapons and even bombs. Welcome to New York City's Chinatown in 1925. The Chinese in turn-of-the-last-century New York were mostly immigrant peasants and shopkeepers who worked as laundrymen, cigar makers, and domestics. They gravitated to lower Manhattan and lived as Chinese an existence as possible, their few diversions-gambling, opium, and prostitution-available but, sadly, illegal. It didn't take long before one resourceful merchant saw a golden opportunity to feather his nest by positioning himself squarely between the vice dens and the police charged with shutting them down. A mesmerizing true story, Scott D. Seligman's Tong Wars roars through three decades of turmoil, with characters ranging from gangsters and drug lords to reformers and do-gooders to judges, prosecutors, cops, and politicians of every stripe and color.

Tantor Audio

2019 Independent Publisher Book Award Winner (Gold) in U.S. History If you’ve ever seen an episode of Law and Order, you can probably recite your Miranda rights by heart. But you likely don’t know that these rights had their roots in the case of a young Chinese man accused of murdering three diplomats in Washington DC in 1919. A frantic search for clues and dogged interrogations by gumshoes erupted in sensational news and editorial coverage and intensified international pressure on the police to crack the case. Part murder mystery, part courtroom drama, and part landmark legal case, The Third Degree is the true story of a young man’s abuse by the Washington police and an arduous, seven-year journey through the legal system that drew in Warren G. Harding, William Howard Taft, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John W. Davis, and J. Edgar Hoover. The ordeal culminated in a sweeping Supreme Court ruling penned by Justice Louis Brandeis that set the stage for the Miranda warning many years later. Scott D. Seligman argues that the importance of the case hinges not on the defendant’s guilt or innocence but on the imperative that a system that presumes one is innocent until proven guilty provides protections against coerced confessions. Today, when the treatment of suspects between arrest and trial remains controversial, when bias against immigrants and minorities in law enforcement continues to deny them their rights, and when protecting individuals from compulsory self-incrimination is still an uphill battle, this century-old legal spellbinder is a cautionary tale that reminds us how we got where we are today and makes us wonder how far we have yet to go. Purchase the audio edition.

The Third Degree: The Triple Murder That Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice

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Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown

Dealing with the Chinese

Chinese Business Etiquette: A Guide to Protocol, Manners, and Culture in thePeople's Republic of China

Mandarin Chinese At A Glance: Foreign Language Phrasebook & Dictionary (Barron's Foreign Language Guides)

Chinese at a Glance

Now You're Talking Mandarin Chinese In No Time (Barron's Foreign Language Guides)

Chinese at a Glance: Phrase Book and Dictionary for Travelers (English and Chinese Edition)

Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown

Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown

The Third Degree: The Triple Murder That Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice