Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco by Anthony W. Lee [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
01 Feb, by in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Nonfiction, Repost
Visually stunning look at the first hundred years of San Francisco's Chinatown, from 1850 to 1950.
Review: "New and Notable," aMagazine: Inside Asian America, February/March 2002
Readers: Adult
Published: 2001...
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