Claiming the Oriental Gateway

Prewar Seattle and Japanese America

Shelley Sang-Hee Lee author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Temple University Press,U.S.

Published:17th Oct '12

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How the interests of Seattle and Japanese immigrants were linked in the processes of urban boosterism before World War II

"Claiming the Oriental Gateway is an important contribution to the understanding of diversity of Japanese American experiences and a valuable contribution to the field of Asian American Studies, U.S. urban history, and U.S. western history." 
-Karen Leong, author of The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong Chiang, and the Transformation of American Orientalism.

ISBN: 9781439902141

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm

Weight: unknown

272 pages