Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown free ebook download.

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Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown free ebook download

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Date:	2021	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0399562273
Pages:	368	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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A mesmerizing true story of money, murder, gambling, prostitution, and opium in a "wild ramble around Chinatown in its darkest days." (The New Yorker)

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. The New York DA 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 Citys Chinatown in 1925.
            The Chinese in turn-of-the-last-century New York were mostly immigrant peasants and shopkeepers who worked as laundrymen, cigar makers, and domestics. They gravitated to lower Manhattan and lived as Chinese an existence as possible, their few diversionsgambling, opium, and prostitutionavailable but, sadly, illegal. It didnt take long before one resourceful merchant saw a golden opportunity to feather his nest by positioning himself squarely between the vice dens and the police charged with shutting them down.
          
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