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Original Essays | June 22, 2009

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Chinese Laundries: Tickets to Survival on Gold Mountain

by John Jung

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Synopsis:

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.
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ISBN:
9781430329794
Subtitle:
Tickets to Survival on Gold Mountain
Author:
Jung, John
Publisher:
Lulu.com
Subject:
History
Subject:
Chinese americans
Subject:
General
Subject:
Chinese Americans - History - 20th century
Subject:
Chinese Americans -- History -- 19th century.
Publication Date:
February 2008
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
260
Dimensions:
9.00x6.00x.59 in. .85 lbs.
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