Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown

Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown
Author: Arnold Genthe
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2013-01-17
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0486140695

130 rare photos offer fascinating visual record of Chinatown before the great 1906 earthquake. Informative text traces history of Chinese in California.

Ornamentalism

Ornamentalism
Author: Anne Anlin Cheng
Publisher:
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2019
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0190604611

Ornamentalism offers one of the first sustained and original theories of Asiatic femininity. Examining ornamentality, in lieu of Orientalism, as a way to understand the representation, circulation, and ontology of Asiatic femininity, this study extends our vocabulary about the woman of color beyond the usual platitudes about objectification.

East West

East West
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 480
Release: 1980
Genre: Chinese
ISBN:

San Francisco's Chinatown

San Francisco's Chinatown
Author: Judy Yung
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738531304

An evocative collection of vintage photographs traces the history of San Francisco's Chinatown, the largest and oldest Chinese enclave outside of Asia, from the Gold Rush era to the present day, capturing the realities of everyday life, as well as the changes in the community, the challenges confronting the Chinese immigrants, and its rich cultural heritage. Original.

Faces of the Frontier

Faces of the Frontier
Author: Frank H. Goodyear (III)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Faces of the Frontier showcases more than 120 photographic portraits of leaders, statesmen, soldiers, laborers, activists, criminals, and others, all posed before the cameras that made their way to nearly every mining shanty-town and frontier outpost on the prairie. Drawing primarily on the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, this book depicts many of the people who helped transform the West between the end of the Mexican War and passage of the Indian Citizenship Act.