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Seeing the light : four decades in Chinatown / photos and essays by Dean Wong.
Van Pelt Library F899.S46 I588 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wong, Dean, author, photographer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese Americans.
- Chinatown-International District (Seattle, Wash.)--Pictorial works.
- Chinatown-International District (Seattle, Wash.).
- Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.)--Pictorial works.
- Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.).
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)--Pictorial works.
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.).
- Chinatown-International District (Seattle, Wash.)--Social life and customs.
- Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.)--Social life and customs.
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)--Social life and customs.
- Chinese Americans--Interviews.
- Chinatown-International District (Seattle, Wash.)--Biography.
- Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.)--Biography.
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)--Biography.
- Manners and customs.
- British Columbia--Vancouver--Chinatown.
- California--San Francisco--Chinatown.
- Washington (State)--Seattle--Chinatown-International District.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Interviews.
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 145 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 x 29 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle, WA : Chin Music Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "This book collects decades of Dean Wong's photography and essays chronicling life in Chinatowns, especially in Seattle but also in Vancouver, BC, and San Francisco"-- Provided by publisher.
- "Photojournalist Dean Wong has been chronicling life in America's Chinatowns for four decades. His sensitive eye and man-of-the-people interviews bring these ghettos disguised as tourist traps to life. Through Wong, we meet the drag queen deciding to stop his medications and die of AIDS with dignity; the elderly Chinese American facing eviction as the neighborhood gentrifies; the artist told by the city that his shop is a fire hazard, and the man who challenged Bruce Lee to a fight. and lost. Wong focuses his attention on the Chinatowns of Seattle, San Francisco, Vancouver, and New York. He reveals how 'Chinatown' is sometimes a misnomer because these neighborhoods often include large pockets of Vietnamese, Japanese, and other Asian American families. He also chronicles the celebratory side of life in these communities, from the events around Lunar New Year to a much-anticipated visit by the Dalai Lama. Building on the groundwork of Bonnie Tsui's American Chinatown (2009), Seeing the Light exposes an oft overlooked American community and reminds the reader that these neighborhoods are filled with much more than good places to get dim sum. Dean Wong is an award-winning photojournalist who has been chronicling Asian American life for nearly forty years. The city of Seattle and King County, Washington, declared March 8, 1995, Dean Wong Day to honor his efforts documenting the Asian and Pacific American community"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A place
- San Francisco 1992
- A people
- A family
- A fight
- san Francisco 2010
- A kitchen table.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- American Book Awards, Winner, 2017
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wong, Dean. Seeing the light.
- ISBN:
- 9781634059039
- 1634059034
- OCLC:
- 944957823
- Publisher Number:
- 99968603897
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