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A true story of money, murder, gambling, prostitution and opium: the gang wars that engulfed New York’s Chinatown from the 1890s to the 1930s. | ||||
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Nothing had worked. Not threats or negotiations, not shutting down the betting parlors or opium dens, not house-to-house searches or throwing Chinese offenders into prison. Not even executing them. New York's District Attorney was running out of ideas and more people were dying every day, as the weapons of choice evolved from hatchets and meat cleavers to pistols, automatic weapons and even bombs.
Welcome to New York City‘s Chinatown in 1925. |
A
Chinese translation
of
Tong Wars was jointly published in
November, 2020 by the Shanghai Cultural
Publishing House and Post Wave Publishing under
the title 堂斗:纽约唐人街的罪恶金钱谋杀, a faithful
translation of the original. Click on the image
below for more information.
Meet the men of the On Leong and Hip Sing tongs, the police captains and prosecutors, the mayors and the Progressives and the victims of the tongs. See rare surviving video footage of the tongs in the early 1930s. Enjoy some images and documents that tell more of the story, but that couldn't fit into the final book. |
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