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Cover of New York before Chinatown

New York before Chinatown

by John Kuo Wei Tchen

2001 416 pages eng

"From George Washington's desire (in the heat of the Revolutionary War) for a proper set of Chinese porcelains for afternoon tea, to the lives of Chinese-Irish couples in the 1830s, to the commercial success of Chang and Eng (the "Siamese Twins"), to rising fears of "heathen Chinee," New York before…

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