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Book Review

Surviving the City: The Chinese Immigrant Experience in New York City, 1890-1970. By Xinyang Wang. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. xii, 157 pp. Cloth, $59.00, ISBN 0-7425-0890-0. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-7425-0891-9.)

Xinyang Wang focuses upon the complicated relationship among racial hostilities, economic survival, community unity, and ethnic heritage in order to gain a new understanding of Chinese American history in New York City. He looks comparatively at the Chinese and Italian experiences in New York City and at the Chinese experiences in New York and San Francisco in order to gain a broader perspective. . . .

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