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Chinese in Chicago: 1870 - 1945 (IL) (Images of America) ReviewMy profound disappointment with American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods, which just could not find a Chinatown of note between New York and Las Vegas lead me to seek out this book, and I'm so glad that I found it. At 128 pages it is a deceptively slim book; though there are only 10 pages of conventional text, there are 111 pages of wonderful black and white photos with very detailed and informative captions.
Four separate Chicagoans contributed five separate chapters of one or two pages of text followed by page after page of photos to this history of the Chinese in Chicago up to 1945:
1. Seeking a New World by Chuimei Ho
2. Filling the Rice Bowl by Grace Hong Chun
3. The Rise of Chinatown by Chuimei Ho
4. A World with Few Women by Soo Lon Moy
5. Becoming American by Bennet Bronson
Of course as only the first half of the story, this book is necessarily short on useful travel information because so many of the places described herein no longer exist, but I for one look forward to visiting the Chinese-American Museum of Chicago after it reopens (it was recently damaged by fire). This book was issued in part as a companion piece to the inaugural exhibition of this museum, "Paper Sons--Chinese in the Midwest 1870-1945", and assuming this exhibition was not too badly damaged in the fire, I look forward to finally seeing it when the museum reopens and to reading the second half of the story when it is published.
In the meantime Arcadia Publishing has put out other volumes in their Images of America series focusing on other also forgotten Midwestern Chinatowns: Chinese Milwaukee (WI) and Chinese In St. Louis: 1857-2007 (MO).Chinese in Chicago: 1870 - 1945 (IL) (Images of America) Overview

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