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Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon

by Marie Rose Wong

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ISBN13: 9780295983837
ISBN10: 0295983833
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Around the turn of the 20th century and for decades thereafter, Oregon had the second-largest Chinese population in the US. In terms of geographical coverage, Portland's two Chinatowns—one an urban area of brick commercial structures, the other a community of shanty dwellings and vegetable gardens—were the largest in North America. Wong (Institute of Public Service, Seattle U.) draws on primary material from the National Archives to examine the enforcement of exclusion laws in the US and chronicle the history of Portland's Chinatowns from their beginnings in the 1850s until the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the 1940s. Sprinkled with b&w photos.
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Sweet Cakes, Long Journey is a meticulously researched and very readable account of the Chinese immigrant experience with a focus on the growth of the Chinese community in Portland, Oregon, once the largest Cinatown in the U.S. Marie Wong bases the account on numerous primary source documents and the book includes many examples and photographs from government sources, newspaper articles, and earlier scholarly works. The author's own story of how she discovered traces of her father's entry into the U.S. provides a poignant connection between the scholarly and personal sides.
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ISBN:
9780295983837
Subtitle:
The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon
Author:
Wong, Marie Rose
Publisher:
University of Washington Press
Location:
Seattle
Subject:
History
Subject:
Race relations
Subject:
Chinese americans
Subject:
Portland
Subject:
Chinatown
Subject:
Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies
Subject:
United States - State & Local - West
Subject:
Chinese Americans -- Oregon -- Portland.
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series:
Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies
Series Volume:
#2
Publication Date:
April 2004
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
337
Dimensions:
902x622x72 108
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