Chinese laundries : tickets to survival on Gold Mountain / John Jung

Object Details

Contents

Did the Chinese come to do laundry? -- The Chinese must go -- Chinese enter the laundry business -- Challenges to Chinese laundries -- Chain migration of laundrymen -- The hard laundry life -- Lives of Chinese laundry children -- Chinese laundries in historical perspective

Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Date

2007

©2007

19th century

20th century

Author

Jung, John 1937-

Type

Biography

History

Physical description

xvi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place

United States

Topic

Chinese Americans--History

Laundry workers

Record ID

siris_sil_1043817

Usage

CC0