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Lee is the author of three books. His first, Chinese Playground: A Memoir (1999) is a memoir of gang life in 1960s and 1970s San Francisco Chinatown which caused him to be approached and threatened by former gang associates who told him he should not have written the book and made veiled threats against him and his family. [5]
Washington Street in Chinatown with Transamerica Pyramid in the background.. Officially, Chinatown is located in downtown San Francisco, covers 24 square blocks, [10] and overlaps five postal ZIP codes (94108, 94133, 94111, 94102, and 94109).
The book was published in San Francisco in softcover by City Lights. Architectural photographs in the book were taken in the 1980s by Brian Choy for a case report to nominate Chinatown as a historic district. [2]: 12 An earlier, abridged version was published as a pamphlet by the Chinese Historical Society of America. [3]
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The Chinatown Handy Guide was one of the early Chinatown tour books published by a Chinese American author and recorded in the World Catalog. [1] It was published in four different geographic editions tailored to the largest established Chinatowns in America's biggest cities: [2] Chinatown Handy Guide New York, [3] Chinatown Handy Guide Chicago, [4] Chinatown Handy Guide San Francisco [5] and ...
City Lights was the inspiration of Peter D. Martin, who relocated from New York City to San Francisco in the 1940s to teach sociology.He first used City Lights, in homage to the Chaplin film, in 1952 as the title of a magazine, publishing early work by such key Bay Area writers as Philip Lamantia, Pauline Kael, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Ferlinghetti himself, as "Lawrence Ferling".
Legendary California poet Gary Snyder recommends "congee at Sam Wo" among other "Things to Do Around San Francisco" in his book Mountains and Rivers Without End. Sam Wo in San Francisco is unconnected to the like-named Sam Wo restaurant that once operated in New York City's Chinatown , the latter well-known from its mention in the 1979 Woody ...