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Shopping at Giant Foods
From the 1930s through the 1970s, Chinese American owned supermarkets located outside of Chinatown, catering to a non-Chinese clientele, and featuring mainstream American foods and other products and services rose to prominence and phenomenal success in Northern California, only to decline as union regulations and competition from national chains made their operation unprofitable. Alfred Yee’s study of this trajectory is an insider’s view of a fascinating era in Asian American immigration and entrepreneurship. Drawing on oral interviews with individuals who worked in the business during its peak and decline, he presents an accessible history that illustrates how this once-thriving busine...
Principalities of Darkness
Is it twenty-first century hysteria? Or has the Apocalypse finally arrived? Dave Harrigan follows a trail of delusion and dementia ¬— but ultimately finds he must confront the demons within. A number of local ministers suffer psychotic episodes in a sleepy rural stretch of south Delaware. The incidents are random, striking across all denominational lines, but too frequent for coincidence. In one stricken town named Harrington, the Progressive Church of the Millennium, led by self-proclaimed visionary Reverend Arthur Moley, claims that the incidents are God's punishment of churches gone astray. Consequently, many of the local faithful fl ock to the PCM. Is it divine wrath or a scam? Computer specialist David Harrigan will unearth the truth.
Cross the River to Home
An absorbing novel set in 1870s New Zealand about an impossible love between a half-Chinese woman and a young immigrant. Henry arrives in the South Island of New Zealand in search of his sister, who is now living in Charleston, married to a local doctor. It is there that he comes across Mai, who has brought her grandfather for eye surgery. Mai is half-Chinese and the love that ignites between her and Henry seems destined to be snuffed out. With family ties, racial prejudice and the local community conspiring against any match between Henry and Mai, their futures promise to be bleak. But perhaps Mai's grandfather is not the only one destined to see more clearly . . .
The Chinese in the West Indies, 1806-1995
The Chinese in West Indies starts with an excellent introductory essay to place nineteenth-century Chinese immigration in its wider context: the worldwide Chinese migrations, the post-slavery Caribbean background, the contract labour schemes developed after emancipation . . . All the documents are well chosen, and together they deal with virtually every important aspect of the migration of Chinese people to the West Indies and their subsequent experiences. Foreword In the first seven chapters, nearly all the documents are 'official', generated by government agencies or officers. Colonial Office correspondence and papers, reports of Immigrations Department officials and British agents in Sout...
GOODBYE YAMAGUCHI
Good-bye Yamaguchi is a fast-moving story about an ambitious attempt by Japanese gangsters (yakuza) to seize control of all vice operations in cosmopolitan Miami, Florida, the gateway fro predators from Central and South America. Two ex-Secret Service agents, fired for their failure to prevent the assassination of a Black presidential candidate, reunite three years later to work as private investigators under a lucrative short-term contract for their boss. All government agencies are alarmed at the high murder rate and growing violence in Miami because of the drug trade and the security lapses on America’s southern border. A gang ninjas have been sent by a rouge Japanese crime syndicate to...
Godfathers of Chicago's Chinatown
Discover the untold story of the Windy City's Ghost Shadows. Even in a town notorious for gangsters like Al Capone, much of Chicago's lawless lore has remained uncharted. Chicago's Chinatown, in particular, was home to a vast criminal enterprise, strictly bound by old country rituals, rules and traditions. Few know of Moy Dong Chew, aka "Opium Dong," one of Chinatown's original godfathers, much less Frank Moy, his fedora-wearing predecessor. While incidents like the St. Valentine's Day Massacre dominated newspaper headlines, the Tong Wars were being waged in the shadows. Author Harrison Fillmore relates the long and sordid history of Chinatown's underbelly from the early 1880s to the late 1980s when a Federal Indictment essentially ended organized crime's grip on their good citizens
