Description: Further DetailsTitle: Seeing the LightCondition: NewSubtitle: Four Decades in ChinatownEAN: 9781634059039ISBN: 9781634059039Publisher: Chin Music PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 08/18/2016Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 228mmItem Length: 228mmItem Weight: 722gAuthor: Dean WongGenre: Arts & PhotographyTopic: Society & CultureRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Seeing the Light
Title: Seeing the Light
Subtitle: Four Decades in Chinatown
EAN: 9781634059039
ISBN: 9781634059039
Release Date: 08/18/2016
Release Year: 2016
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Seeing the Light : Four Decades in Chinatown
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Chin Music Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Topic: Photojournalism, Australia & Oceania, General
Publication Year: 2016
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Travel, Photography
Item Weight: 25 oz
Author: Dean Wong
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 9 in
Format: Hardcover
