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Author |
: Jay John Locher |
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Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:33212758 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Congressional Perceptions of Chinese Organized Crime in Manhattan's Chinatown by : Jay John Locher
Author |
: Ko-lin Chin |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195136272 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195136276 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chinatown Gangs by : Ko-lin Chin
Rich in data collected from gang members, gang victims, community leaders, and law enforcement authorities, this book offers a systematic study of New York City's Chinatown gangs. "Chin's ethnographic study should be on the shelf of anyone interested in the comparative study of gangs and the role of gangs in American society."--Jerome H. Skolnick, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 528 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: LOC:0009842961A |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (1A Downloads) |
Synopsis Asian Organized Crime by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Author |
: Jeffrey Scott McIllwain |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 261 |
Release |
: 2004-02-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786416264 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786416262 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Organizing Crime in Chinatown by : Jeffrey Scott McIllwain
More than a century ago, organized criminals were intrinsically involved with the political, social, and economic life of the Chinese American community. In the face of virulent racism and substantial linguistic and cultural differences, they also integrated themselves successfully into the extensive underworlds and corrupt urban politics of the Progressive Era United States. The process of organizing crime in Chinese American communities can be attributed in part to the larger politics that created opportunities for professional criminals. For example, the illegal traffic in women, laborers, and opium was an unintended consequence of "yellow peril" laws meant to provide social control over Chinese Americans. Despite this hostile climate, Chinese professional criminals were able to form extensive multiethnic social networks and purchase protection and some semblance of entrepreneurial equality from corrupt politicians, police officers, and bureaucrats. While other Chinese Americans worked diligently to remove racist laws and regulations, Chinatown gangsters saw opportunity for profit and power at the expense of their own community. Academics, the media, and the government have claimed that Chinese organized crime is a new and emerging threat to the United States. Focusing on events and personalities, and drawing on intensive archival research in newspapers, police and court documents, district attorney papers, and municipal reports, as well as from contemporary histories and sociological treatments, this study tests that claim against the historical record.
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: Charles River |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 68 |
Release |
: 2021-01-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798592745546 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gangs of Chinatown by : Charles River
San Francisco Chinatown, September 4, 1977, 2:00 a.m. Despite it being the middle of the night, Chinatown was still a hive of activity. Fresh produce glistening with dew was being delivered by vegetable vendors at grocery stores. Chinese barbeque chefs at neighborhood restaurants were preparing juicy roast duck and sticky sweet red barbeque pork for both the late-night crowd and tomorrow's lunch rush. Walking down the dense streets, vibrant Cantonese could be heard from Chinatown residents, some jockeying for a seat at late-night dim sum restaurants, a favorite Cantonese staple of little steamed and fried dumplings and pastries. The restaurant Golden Dragon was no different, except on this night, instead of a peaceful late-night meal, a barrage of bullets would spray into the restaurant, unleashed by gunmen from the notorious Chinese Joe Boys street gang. The gangsters were aiming for their archrivals, the Wah Ching and the Hop Sing Boys. The attack was a revenge strike, as a Joe Boys street soldier had been killed in a running gun battle after a Wah Ching gang ambush on the Fourth of July at the Ping Yuen housing project in Chinatown. The Joe Boys were furious for revenge, and two months later, the death of their fellow gangster still fresh in their minds, the Joe Boys struck. An opportunity presented itself when a lookout spotted Wah Ching and Hop Sing gangsters at the Golden Dragon Restaurant. Ultimately, the gang shooting failed to kill a single street gang member. Instead, five innocent people were killed along with another 11 wounded. Chinatown and the city were shocked. Chinese gangs, once only a subject spoken in hushed tones among the residents of Chinatown, was now front-page news in America. Although the shooting was a shock to mainstream America, the attack represented a culmination of years of gang violence in the Chinese community. For years, gangs had killed dozens of people in Chinatown, an area that was both a tourist attraction and home to thousands of poor, mostly Chinese-born, immigrants. Most casualties in the gang wars of Chinatown had been criminals, combatants in vicious street combat. But the Golden Dragon shooting was different. This time the battle occurred in a popular restaurant, with victims being innocent civilians with no connection or knowledge to gangs or the revenge origins of the shooting. Chinatown would be changed forever after the Golden Dragon Massacre. Chinese gangs have been a part of the fabric of American Chinatowns since the first Chinese immigrants arrived in the nineteenth century to work on the railroads. Faced with intense racism and systematic oppression from mainstream society, secret societies called tongs were organized in the urban Chinatowns. These societies provided much needed social and financial support for the Chinese migrants who were treated as pariahs by American society. Eventually, as Chinese immigration increased after the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act, Chinese gangs evolved too. Chinese street gangs, ranging from the Ghost Shadows of urban New York Chinatown to the middle-class Taiwanese Americans that filled the gangs of Southern California, underground Chinese crime groups have continued to evolve and change in America. The Gangs of Chinatown: The History and Legacy of Chinese Street Gangs in America looks at how some of the gangs formed, what their activities were like, and their impact. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about the gangs of Chinatown like never before.
Author |
: Larry Diamond |
Publisher |
: Hoover Press |
Total Pages |
: 223 |
Release |
: 2019-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780817922863 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0817922865 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis China's Influence and American Interests by : Larry Diamond
While Americans are generally aware of China's ambitions as a global economic and military superpower, few understand just how deeply and assertively that country has already sought to influence American society. As the authors of this volume write, it is time for a wake-up call. In documenting the extent of Beijing's expanding influence operations inside the United States, they aim to raise awareness of China's efforts to penetrate and sway a range of American institutions: state and local governments, academic institutions, think tanks, media, and businesses. And they highlight other aspects of the propagandistic “discourse war” waged by the Chinese government and Communist Party leaders that are less expected and more alarming, such as their view of Chinese Americans as members of a worldwide Chinese diaspora that owes undefined allegiance to the so-called Motherland.Featuring ideas and policy proposals from leading China specialists, China's Influence and American Interests argues that a successful future relationship requires a rebalancing toward greater transparency, reciprocity, and fairness. Throughout, the authors also strongly state the importance of avoiding casting aspersions on Chinese and on Chinese Americans, who constitute a vital portion of American society. But if the United States is to fare well in this increasingly adversarial relationship with China, Americans must have a far better sense of that country's ambitions and methods than they do now.
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 160442267X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781604422672 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (7X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Second Annual National Institute on Criminal Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights by :
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 358 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105064222677 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis National Institute on Criminal Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights by :
Author |
: Henry Chang |
Publisher |
: Soho Press |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2007-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781569476840 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1569476845 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chinatown Beat by : Henry Chang
Detective Jack Yu is assigned to the Chinatown precinct as the only officer of Chinese descent. He investigates a series of attacks on children and a missing mistress, shifting between the world of street thugs and gangs and the Chinatown of the rich and powerful. When Detective Jack Yu is transferred to New York’s Chinatown, he isn’t ready to face the changes in his old neighborhood. His childhood friends are now hardened gangsters, his father is dying, and he is constantly reminded of this teenage blood brother, murdered in front of him years before. Then community leader and tong boss Uncle Four is gunned down and his mistress goes missing. But unlike the rest of the culturally clueless police department, Jack knows his district’s gritty secrets. He will have to draw on his knowledge in order to catch this killer in a crime-ridden precinct where brotherhoods are just as likely to distribute charity as mete out vigilante justice.
Author |
: Jacob Riis |
Publisher |
: Applewood Books |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781458500427 |
ISBN-13 |
: 145850042X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis How the Other Half Lives by : Jacob Riis