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Ladataan... Hatchet Men: The Story of the Tong Wars in San Francisco's ChinatownTekijä: Richard H. Dillon
   - Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta.   ) DinadansFriend | Oct 18, 2022 |  Hatchet Men was originally published in 1962; it has now been re-released by a small press. There were numerous typographical errors throughout the book that sometimes distracted me as I read. Did the book supply me with the information I wanted? Yes. It was a fascinating read and gave me the insights I wanted, down to hand signals, rituals, and Chinese phrases. I had no idea that the Tongs (or anyone else a century ago) used chain mail as bullet-proof vests! I can also use key words from the text to search more on my own. It's by no means a perfect book, typos aside. It's a book written by a white man about Chinatown. He doesn't write with intimacy of the place or the people--more with a journalist's plain prose. It's not that he's outright anti-Chinese, more that it has the definite feel of an outsider looking in. Sometimes Hatchet Men felt repetitive, but it never bored me. I also worry about accuracy. At the end of the book, he quotes the propaganda figure for the death toll from the 1906 quake--a mere 450 fatalities. This is flat out wrong. There were probably singular buildings with death tolls that high. That kind of "fact" makes me worry about the accuracy of other points, but the problem is that there just hasn't been much written on the specific subject of Tongs in San Francisco. I'm thankful for this resource and I'll have to follow up as much as I can. ( ) ladycato | Jul 16, 2013 | näyttää 2/2
 By the 1870's and 80's a peaceful little settlement called Chinatown in San Francisco, a settlement which had existed on good terms with the rest of the town for years, was in a state of violent unrest. The Chinese, most of whom intended staying in California only long enough to acquire capital, were suddenly the victims of a wave of anti Oriental fear and which spread through the state. At the same time the power of the traditional ""Six Companies"" to control the neighborhood was usurped by a Mafiaesque group of Chinese tongs bent on controlling business and profiting from vice. The police could do nothing to stop the fighting among these tongs, partly because they were under-manned and partly because many officers were paid to look the other way. This highly entertaining book tells us how men like Hop Sing and Suey Sing hired professional Chinese hatchetman to do their murdering in the streets. It tells how individual murders became wholesale slaughter, how opium and slave girl prostitutes were brought into San Francisco in quantity, and how hearings were conducted in which the most fantastic and brazen lying was perpetrated by corrupt city officials. The story ends with the murder of ""top dog"" Little Pete in 1894, the Great Fire which wiped out the bordellos and opium dens, and the finally successful efforts of a policeman named Manton in 1922 to destroy the last evil vestiges of one of the worst vice centers in America history. A colorful and expertly told true tale.
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