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Can I read Chinese Laundries: Tickets to Survival on Gold Mountain on EtoBox?
Chinese Laundries: Tickets to Survival on Gold Mountain by Jung, John is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Chinese Laundries: Tickets to Survival on Gold Mountain about?
A social history of the role of the Chinese laundry on the survival of early Chinese immigrants in the U.S.during the Chinese Exclusion law period, 1882-1943, and in Canada during the years of the Head Tax, 1885-1923, and exclusion law, 1923-1947. Why and how Chinese got into the laundry business and how they had to fight discriminatory laws and competition from white-owned laundries to survive. Description of their lives, work demands, and living conditions. Reflections by a sample of children who grew up living in the backs of their laundries provide vivid first-person glimpses of the difficult lives of Chinese laundrymen and their families.ISBN : 9781257149247
Who reads Chinese Laundries: Tickets to Survival on Gold Mountain?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jung, John
- Publisher
- Lulu Press, Inc.
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781257149247
- Category
- nonfiction
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