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Author Lee, Anthony W., 1960-

Title Picturing Chinatown : art and orientalism in San Francisco / Anthony W. Lee
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 347 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Series Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts imprint
Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint
Contents The place of Chinatown -- Picturesque Chinatown -- Photography on the streets -- Photography in the books -- Revolutionary artists -- The Forbidden City
Summary Throughout European history, Jews have been associated with commerce and the money trade, rendered both visible and vulnerable, like Shylock, by their economic distinctiveness. This is the story of Jewish perceptions of this economic difference and its effect on modern Jewish identity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-336) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Painting, American -- California -- San Francisco
Photography -- California -- San Francisco
ART -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
Painting, American
Photography
SUBJECT Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- In art
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Subject California -- San Francisco
California -- San Francisco -- Chinatown
Genre/Form Electronic books
Art
Pictorial works
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520925861
0520925866
0585467447
9780585467443
1597348074
9781597348072
9780520225923
0520225929