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Book Chinatown Hell

    Book Details:
  • Author : J.R. Roberts
  • Publisher : Speaking Volumes
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1612324002
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book Chinatown Hell written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinatown Hell

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  • Author : J. R. Roberts
  • Publisher : Speaking Volumes LLC
  • Release : 2013-12
  • ISBN : 9781612326306
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Chinatown Hell written by J. R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes LLC. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clint Adams heads for San Francisco, hoping to combine business with pleasure. The pleasure side looks up when he discovers a beautiful Chinese woman waiting in his hotel room. But the pleasure ends abruptly when a martial arts expert knocks Clint unconscious. The Gunsmith awakens with a lump on his head and a dead girl in his bed. It looks like Clint has walked right into the middle of the Yellow Serpent Tongs deadly criminal dealings-now the Gunsmith must clear himself of murder and crush the Tong if he ever hopes to leave San Francisco alive!

Book Chinatown Film Culture

Download or read book Chinatown Film Culture written by Kim K. Fahlstedt and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinatown Film Culture provides the first comprehensive account of the emergence of film and moviegoing in the transpacific hub of San Francisco in the early twentieth century. Working with materials previously left in the margins of grand narratives of history, Kim K. Fahlstedt uncovers the complexity of a local entertainment culture that offered spaces where marginalized Chinese Americans experienced and participated in local iterations of modernity. At the same time, this space also fostered a powerful Orientalist aesthetic that would eventually be exported to Hollywood by San Francisco showmen such as Sid Grauman. Instead of primarily focusing on the screen-spectator relationship, Fahlstedt suggests that immigrant audiences' role in the proliferation of cinema as public entertainment in the United States saturated the whole moviegoing experience, from outside on the street to inside the movie theater. By highlighting San Francisco and Chinatown as featured participants rather than bit players, Chinatown Film Culture provides an historical account from the margins, alternative to the more dominant narratives of U.S. film history.

Book Helldorado

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  • Author : J.R. Roberts
  • Publisher : Speaking Volumes
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1612324789
  • Pages : 199 pages

Download or read book Helldorado written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there's one thing Clint Adams can't abide, it's cold-blooded killing. So when some greedy claim-jumper lays low his old mining pal in Nevada's bushwhacker territory, the Gunsmith vows to bring the scurvy vermin to justice. But that's not so easy in a corrupt boomtown like Helldorado. Gold-hungry prospectors and hired gunslingers are bad enough—but the sheriff from nearby Austin is even worse! That is, until Helldorado's shapely new mayor gives Clint Adams a shiny silver star... and a free rein to clean up the town—Gunsmith style.

Book Chinatown News

Download or read book Chinatown News written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ghost Town

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  • Author : J.R. Roberts
  • Publisher : Speaking Volumes
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1612325009
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Ghost Town written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Black Wolf

Download or read book The Black Wolf written by Jc Indio Ortega and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinatown   The Last Detail

Download or read book Chinatown The Last Detail written by Robert Towne and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the scripts for two films from the 1970s, one the story of a private detective in Los Angeles, and the other dealing with two Navy Shore Patrols escorting a prisoner.

Book Murder In Chinatown

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  • Author : Victoria Thompson
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2007-06-05
  • ISBN : 1101207310
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Murder In Chinatown written by Victoria Thompson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chinatown to deliver a baby, Sarah Brandt meets a group of women she might otherwise never have come across: Irish girls who, after alighting on Ellis Island alone, have married Chinese men in the same predicament. But with bigotry in New York from every side, their mixed-race children are often treated badly, by the Irish, the Chinese—even the police. When the new mother’s half-Chinese, half-Irish, 15-year-old niece goes missing, Sarah knows that alerting the constables would prove futile. So she turns to Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy—and together they begin the search themselves. And after they find her, dead in an alley, Sarah and Malloy have ample suspects—from both sides of Canal Street.

Book The Spoilers

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  • Author : Matt Braun
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
  • Release : 2002-11-18
  • ISBN : 1429902183
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book The Spoilers written by Matt Braun and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-11-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "MATT BRAUN IS A MASTER STORYTELLER OF FRONTIER HISTORY." -Elmer Kelton It takes a man with guts A rare breed of bullbog and bloodhound, private detective Luke Starbuck has been hired to ferret out the Judas working for the Central Pacific-a mastermind behind a string of train robberies. The target: gold shipments from the Frisco mint. All Starbuck has to do is pass himself off as an outlaw and infiltrate the pack... To take on the Barbary Coast But chumming up to a gang leader like Denny O'Brien means that Starbuck must follow him into the vice pits of the notorious Barbary Coast. Getting inside this hellhole of crime is dangerously easy if you make the right moves. Make the wrong ones, and getting out could be murder... "BRAUN IS ONE OF THE BEST!"-Don Coldsmith, author of the Spanish Bit series

Book The Chinese in America

Download or read book The Chinese in America written by Iris Chang and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quintessiantially American story chronicling Chinese American achievement in the face of institutionalized racism by the New York Times bestselling author of The Rape of Nanking In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people’s search for a better life—the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and, often against great obstacles, to find success. She chronicles the many accomplishments in America of Chinese immigrants and their descendents: building the infrastructure of their adopted country, fighting racist and exclusionary laws and anti-Asian violence, contributing to major scientific and technological advances, expanding the literary canon, and influencing the way we think about racial and ethnic groups. Interweaving political, social, economic, and cultural history, as well as the stories of individuals, Chang offers a bracing view not only of what it means to be Chinese American, but also of what it is to be American.

Book Game of Death

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  • Author : J.R. Roberts
  • Publisher : Speaking Volumes
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1612324886
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Game of Death written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Iceman of Brooklyn

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  • Author : Michael Newton
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2021-04-16
  • ISBN : 1476681961
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book Iceman of Brooklyn written by Michael Newton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Largely forgotten now, Frankie Yale was an influential New York mobster of the early 20th century whose proteges included future leaders of New York's five Mafia families and Chicago's outfit. His influence extended to Chicago, where he personally committed two of the city's most notorious underworld assassinations and waged a five-year war to wrest control of Brooklyn's docks from Irish rivals. His murder marked New York City's first use of a Tommy gun in gangland warfare, the same weapon used in Chicago's St. Valentine's Day massacre seven months later. Yale's passing destabilized Gotham's Mafia, paving the way for an upheaval that modified and modernized the structure of American syndicated crime for the next six decades. Despite Yale's prominence during his life, this is the first biography to survey his life and career.

Book Old Tenements and the New Law

Download or read book Old Tenements and the New Law written by Louis Heaton Pink and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book University Settlement Studies

Download or read book University Settlement Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wildcat Roundup

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  • Author : J.R. Roberts
  • Publisher : Speaking Volumes
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1612324029
  • Pages : 183 pages

Download or read book Wildcat Roundup written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinese Chicago

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  • Author : Huping Ling
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2012-01-18
  • ISBN : 0804783365
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Chinese Chicago written by Huping Ling and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous studies have documented the transnational experiences and local activities of Chinese immigrants in California and New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Less is known about the vibrant Chinese American community that developed at the same time in Chicago. In this sweeping account, Huping Ling offers the first comprehensive history of Chinese in Chicago, beginning with the arrival of the pioneering Moy brothers in the 1870s and continuing to the present. Ling focuses on how race, transnational migration, and community have defined Chinese in Chicago. Drawing upon archival documents in English and Chinese, she charts how Chinese made a place for themselves among the multiethnic neighborhoods of Chicago, cultivating friendships with local authorities and consciously avoiding racial conflicts. Ling takes readers through the decades, exploring evolving family structures and relationships, the development of community organizations, and the operation of transnational businesses. She pays particular attention to the influential role of Chinese in Chicago's academic and intellectual communities and to the complex and conflicting relationships among today's more dispersed Chinese Americans in Chicago.