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Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown
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Arnold Genthe, John Kuo Wei Tchen

In 1895, a cultured, well-educated young German named Arnold Genthe arrived in San Francisco as a tutor to the son of an aristocratic family. Almost immediately, Genthe was attracted by Chinatown, or "Tangrenbu" a teeming ten-block area of crowded buildings, narrow streets, and exotic sights and sounds in the shadow of Nob Hill. Fascinated by a living culture totally foreign to his experience,…

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9780486140698
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1 online resource (144 pages)
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