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Claiming the Oriental Gateway: Prewar Seattle and Japanese America Reprint Edition
Author(s): Shelley Sang-Hee Lee (Author)
- Publisher: Temple University Press
- Publication Date: 17 Oct. 2012
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 1439902143
- ISBN-13: 9781439902141
Book Description
How the interests of Seattle and Japanese immigrants were linked in the processes of urban boosterism before World War II
Editorial Reviews
Review
“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.
About the Author
Shelley Sang-Hee Lee is an Assistant Professor of Comparative American Studies and History at Oberlin College.
