Learn to COOK - Manhattan's Chinatown (Postcard History: New York)
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Manufacturer: Arcadia Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 974.71
EAN: 9780738555171
ISBN: 0738555177
Label: Arcadia Publishing
Manufacturer: Arcadia Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 2008-01-02
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date: 2008-01-07
Studio: Arcadia Publishing
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Manhattan’s Chinatown is an enclave located in the oldest section of New York City, Manhattan’s Lower East Side. For most who reside there, Chinatown serves as the quintessential microcosm. It is a place to do business, buy groceries, and raise families. For many Chinese immigrants, it provides a stepping stone to a perceived better life that may only be achieved through hard work, determination, sacrifice, and assimilation. Chinatown’s main sources of income and employment lie in its many restaurants, factories, small shops, and businesses. However, for generations of New Yorkers and visitors, Chinatown represents the very embodiment of exotica. With its ancient tenements, temples, fragrant food aromas, neon signs, colorful sites and sounds, and aromatic curio shops, it provides the ultimate journey of the senses, revealing an energetic and vibrant world. Through vintage postcards, Manhattan’s Chinatown chronicles how this community has continually evolved over 150 years.
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Summary: Memories of a Time Long Ago
Comment: I just received this book and immediately read it from cover to cover. It is a wonderful, extensive, and well-presented collection of ephemera, post cards, photos, drawings, etc., from Manhattan's Chinatown (NYC) of long ago. What a perfect way for this generation to look back and get some insight into the way their ancestors lived and how their community looked. So much of our past gets lost from generation to generation, but now Chinatown's has come alive, and will remain so, in the pages of this book. Kudos to the authors. (Gail S.)
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