Name: hatchet men: the story of the tong wars in san francisco's chinatown (en Inglés)
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Author: Dillon, Richard H.
ISBN: 9781618090515

portada hatchet men: the story of the tong wars in san francisco's chinatown (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Richard H. Dillon

Editorial

Silverstowe Book

Año

2012

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

292

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm

Peso

0.43 kg.

ISBN

1618090518

ISBN13

9781618090515

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Siglo xix - c. 1800-c. 1899
Biografías
Crímenes reales
Materia antropología social y cultural etnográfica
Historia de américa

hatchet men: the story of the tong wars in san francisco's chinatown (en Inglés)

Richard H. Dillon (Autor) · Silverstowe Book · Tapa Blanda

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Richard Dillon, one of California's premier historians, tells the compelling story of San Francisco's exotic pre-1906 Chinatown when vicious hoodlum gangs held sway. Chinatown, as demonstrated by Dillon's fast-paced narrative, became a cauldron of chaos teeming with thugs, prostitutes, gamblers, and warlords preying on scores of helpless victims. As the Tong Wars ripped through San Francisco's Chinatown, the Chinese inhabitants lived under a reign of terror. Opium was abundant as were "slave girls," women imported for the purpose of prostitution. Hatchet-wielding killers silenced any opposition. It was a lurid and violent chapter in American history-and, in an era when the customs of an Asian people were considered foreign and frightening to begin with, the very word "Chinatown" came to suggest the mysterious, the sinister. The truth that survived the earthquake of 1906 was both colorful and tragic. Richard Dillon exposes the plight of the Chinese "average man," trapped between the Tongs that terrorized and cast their shadow over him, and a government that disastrously misunderstood him. Richard H. Dillon has written more than 20 books about California and the West.