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1 Tea That Burns: A Family Memoir of Chinatown Hall, Bruce Edward Free Press, The New York, New York, USA 1998 Hard Cover Good, Very Good First Edition 068483989X / 9780684839899 Ex-Library BG6 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wewar with the dust jacket endflaps glued to the front and back fixed endpapers plus there is a very, very light bump on the top edge of the back board plus there are the usual library stamps and label on the top outside paper edges, the front free endpaper, and the title page. the dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear with a library label on the back plus the front and back endflaps glued to the fixed endpapers plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A history of New York City's Chinatown told through the biographies of the author's Chinese ancestors and their lives in New York City. These includes the story of the family patriarch who arrived in Chinatown just as it was beginning to take ship and who eventually became a key player in the Tong Wars that ravaged the neighborhood at the turn of the century. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Endnotes, references and bibliography, acknowledgments, indexed, 308p. SCW10341  Price: 5.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart