The Chinese Laundry
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The Chinese Laundryman
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Author : Paul C.P. Siu
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1987
The Chinese Laundryman written by Paul C.P. Siu and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Business & Economics categories.
The definitive scholarly study of Chinese laundries and those who worked in them in the U.S. Considered a classic piece by students of overseas Chinese and Asian American studies, "The Chinese Laundryman" is also a landmark in the study of ethnic occupations and in the social and cultural history of the immigrant in America. *Lightning Print On Demand Title
The Chinese Laundry On Second Street
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Author : California. Department of Parks and Recreation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Chinese Laundry On Second Street written by California. Department of Parks and Recreation and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with categories.
To Save China To Save Ourselves
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Author : Renqiu Yu
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 1995-09-15
To Save China To Save Ourselves written by Renqiu Yu and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-09-15 with Business & Economics categories.
Combining archival research in Chinese language sources with oral history interviews, Renqiu Yu examines the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance (CHLA), an organization that originated in 1933 to help Chinese laundry workers break their isolation in American society. Yu brings to life the men who labored in New York laundries, depicting their meager existence, their struggles against discrimination and exploitation, and their dreams of returning to China. The persistent efforts of the CHLA succeeded in changing the workers' status in American society and improving the image of the Chinese among the American public. Yu is especially concerned with the political activities of the CHLA, which was founded in reaction to proposed New York City legislation that would have put the Chinese laundries out of business. When the conservative Chinese social organization could not help the launderers, they broke with tradition and created their own organization. Not only did the CHLA defeat the legislative requirements that would have closed them down, but their "people's diplomacy" won American support for China during its war with Japan. The CHLA staged a campaign in the 1930s and 40s which took as its slogan, "To Save China, To Save Ourselves." Focusing on this campaign, Yu also examines the complex relationship between the democratically oriented CHLA and the Chinese American left in the 1930s.
Enduring Hardship
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Author : Ban Seng Hoe
language : en
Publisher: Gatineau, Québec : Canadian Museum of Civilization
Release Date : 2003
Enduring Hardship written by Ban Seng Hoe and has been published by Gatineau, Québec : Canadian Museum of Civilization this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Business & Economics categories.
Faced with systematic discrimination in Canada, early Chinese immigrants had little choice but to create their own economic niche. From the turn of the twentieth century through the Second World War, a majority of Canada's Chinese immigrants were laundry workers in towns and cities from coast to coast. Although the hand laundry was not a traditional trade in China, laundry work required little capital, and could be performed despite a lack of familiarity with Western languages and financial systems. The hours were long, the work was physically demanding, and most chinese laundry workers lived a marginal existence - as poignantly evoked in this important new work. With the advent of modern laundry equipment and synthetic fibres in the 1950s, and the aging of the laundrymen themselves, the chinese hand laundry came to an end. To generations of Chinese-Canadians, however, it remains a symbol of hard work, sacrifice and enduring hardship.
The Chinese Laundry
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Author : Henry Loy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Chinese Laundry written by Henry Loy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Fun In A Chinese Laundry
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Author : Josef von Sternberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Fun In A Chinese Laundry written by Josef von Sternberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with categories.
Chinese Laundry Receipts
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Author : Chinese Laundry (Middlebury, Vt.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
Chinese Laundry Receipts written by Chinese Laundry (Middlebury, Vt.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Chinese Americans categories.
Chinese Laundries
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Author : John Jung
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2007
Chinese Laundries written by John Jung and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
A social history of the role of the Chinese laundry on the survival of early Chinese immigrants in the U.S.during the Chinese Exclusion law period, 1882-1943, and in Canada during the years of the Head Tax, 1885-1923, and exclusion law, 1923-1947. Why and how Chinese got into the laundry business and how they had to fight discriminatory laws and competition from white-owned laundries to survive. Description of their lives, work demands, and living conditions. Reflections by a sample of children who grew up living in the backs of their laundries provide vivid first-person glimpses of the difficult lives of Chinese laundrymen and their families.
Fun In A Chinese Laundry
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Author : Josef Von Sternberg
language : en
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Release Date : 1966
Fun In A Chinese Laundry written by Josef Von Sternberg and has been published by New York : Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Motion picture producers and directors categories.
Josef von Sternberg was born in Vienna in 1894, went to America as a penniless immigrant, and directed his first motion picture in 1924. It was hailed as a work of genius, and he followed it with some of the most striking films of the end of the silent era. With the "talkies" began his long association with Marlene Dietrich. He was the terror of the Hollywood stage, driving his team to a frenzy in his demands for perfection. He also shaped the new medium in several decisive ways. In this book he is not merely reminiscing; in a series of key chapters he sets out his views on the nature of the cinema and of direction.
The Chinese Laundryman
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Author : Paul Chan Pang Siu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
The Chinese Laundryman written by Paul Chan Pang Siu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Social Science categories.
"Chinese hand laundries have been a fixture of America's urban landscape for over one hundred years. Yet little is publicly known about the workings of this familiar institution which originated shortly after Chinese immigrants had started to arrive in some numbers in California in the 1850s. At that time the Chinese worked in a wide range of occupations, hand laundries being one of them. But with the faltering of the Western economy and as European immigration to the United States mounted, the tide of anti-Chinese sentiment swelled, which culminated in violent evictions of the Chinese from West Coast cities and in the imposition of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. The laundry became one of the few occupations in which Chinese were able to continue to work. This book is the definitive scholarly study of Chinese laundries and of those who worked in them in the United States. Siu's work, researched in the 1930s, was completed as a dissertation in 1953 at the University of Chicago's School of Sociology. It is an intimate insider's look at the life and work of Chinese hand laundry workers in Chicago, and is one of the most insightful participant observation studies of this kind. Dr. Siu, himself the son of a laundryman, introduces in it the key sociological concept of the "sojourner" and explores the whole nature of immigrant economies. Considered a classic work by students of overseas Chinese and Asian American studies, The Chinese Laundryman is also a landmark in the study of ethnic occupations and in the social and cultural history of the immigrant in America. Vividly descriptive and highly readable, the book will appeal to anyone interested in the ethnic and the urban experience in America"--