Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown by John Kuo Wei Tchen, Arnold Genthe

Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown

John Kuo Wei Tchen, Arnold Genthe

144 pages first pub 1984 (editions)

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In 1895, a cultured, well-educated young German named Arnold Genthe arrived in San Francisco as a tutor to the son of an aristocratic family. Almost immediately, Genthe was attracted by Chinatown, or "Tangrenbu" — a teeming ten-block area of crowd...

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