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- catalog abstract "Bruce Edward Hall may have an English name and a Connecticut upbringing, but for him a trip to Chinatown, New York, is a visit to the ghosts of his Chinese ancestors - ancestors who helped create the neighborhood that is really as much a transplanted Cantonese village as it is a part of a great American city. Among these Ancestors are missionaries and reprobates, businessmen and scholars. In Tea That Burns, Bruce Edward Hall uses the stories of these and others to tell the history of Chinatown, starting with the tumultuous journey from an ancient empire ruled by the nine dragons of the universe to a bewildering land of elevated trains, solitary labor, and violent discrimination. The world they constructed was built of backbreaking labor and poetry contests; gambling dens and Cantonese opera; Tong Wars, festivals, firecrackers, incense, and food - always food, to celebrate every conceivable occasion and to confound the ever-meddlesome "White Devils" as they attempt to master the mysteries of chop sticks and stir-fry.".
- catalog contributor b10825143.
- catalog coverage "Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) Biography.".
- catalog coverage "Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) Social life and customs.".
- catalog coverage "New York (N.Y.) Biography.".
- catalog coverage "New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "Bruce Edward Hall may have an English name and a Connecticut upbringing, but for him a trip to Chinatown, New York, is a visit to the ghosts of his Chinese ancestors - ancestors who helped create the neighborhood that is really as much a transplanted Cantonese village as it is a part of a great American city. Among these Ancestors are missionaries and reprobates, businessmen and scholars.".
- catalog description "In Tea That Burns, Bruce Edward Hall uses the stories of these and others to tell the history of Chinatown, starting with the tumultuous journey from an ancient empire ruled by the nine dragons of the universe to a bewildering land of elevated trains, solitary labor, and violent discrimination. The world they constructed was built of backbreaking labor and poetry contests; gambling dens and Cantonese opera; Tong Wars, festivals, firecrackers, incense, and food - always food, to celebrate every conceivable occasion and to confound the ever-meddlesome "White Devils" as they attempt to master the mysteries of chop sticks and stir-fry.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-290) and index.".
- catalog extent "308 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Tea that burns.".
- catalog identifier "068483989X".
- catalog isFormatOf "Tea that burns.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Free Press,".
- catalog relation "Tea that burns.".
- catalog spatial "Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "New York (N.Y.) Biography.".
- catalog spatial "New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "New York (State) New York".
- catalog subject "974.7/1 B 21".
- catalog subject "Chinese Americans New York (State) New York Biography.".
- catalog subject "F128.68.C47 H35 1998".
- catalog subject "Hall, Bruce Edward Childhood and youth.".
- catalog title "Tea that burns : a family memoir of Chinatown / Bruce Edward Hall.".
- catalog type "text".