| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Chinese San Francisco, 1850–1943: A Trans-Pacific Community. By Yong Chen. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. xviii, 392 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8047-3605-7.)

This impressively researched study of San Francisco's Chinatown is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the history of the Chinese in America. Using a wide variety of Chinese- and English-language sources, including local gazetteers from China, diaries, newspaper articles and advertisements, and a wealth of secondary sources, Yong Chen attempts to reconstruct the social and cultural world of Chinese immigrants from the gold rush era through the exclusion period, which ended in 1943 when the United States and China were allies during World War II. Most important, Chen provides a Chinese immigrant perspective of Chinese America rather than focusing on white Americans' impressions of the Chinese American community, as did many earlier studies. . . .

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