| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.3

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Huping Ling. Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2004. Pp. ix, 286. Cloth $68.50, paper $22.95.
Huping Ling's book makes two important contributions. First, it is a history of a Chinese community in the Midwest, a region that has received little attention in terms of Asian-American studies. Second, it proposes a model, defined as cultural community, for understanding post-1965 Asian-American communities.	1
In the first part of the book, Ling provides a detailed account of the Chinese-American community of a few hundred people in St. Louis in the period between the 1870s and the 1960s. Mainly due to the Chinese exclusion laws and anti-Chinese prejudice, the majority of the Chinese in St. Louis were adult men with families in China, and most were in the laundry business. They lived in a small back street, known as Hop Alley, in downtown St. Louis. In Hop Alley, there were Chinese grocery stores, Chinese restaurants, and the headquarters of the On Leong Merchants and Laborers Association. The On Leong Association "was the legislative, judiciary, and administrative authority" for the Chinese in St. Louis (p. 89). It sponsored cultural activities such as the Chinese New Year celebration. Its headquarters provided local Chinese residents with spaces for family and social gatherings. Hop Alley was a commercial, residential, and recreational sanctuary for Chinese St. Louisans.	. . .

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