#328 Chop Suey City: A History of Chinese Food in New York
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
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The Chinese and the American Dream
The first chinese men to work in America were cantinese speakers from the coastal province of gwan dong, as were many thousands who then came next to america. They were hired by the rail company central pacific to help build the transcontinental railroad and faced extraordinary discrimination on this project. With the railroad completed by the 18 seventies, some chinese attempted to settle throughout the west, yet many fled for their lives. We can trace the first permanent ch ese community to the years just after the civil war. Soon a small chinese enclave would develop around the area of mot street, slightly east of the notorious five points slum. And a large number of these laborers headed
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