TY - GEN AU - Yu,Renqiu AU - Chan,Sucheng TI - To save China, to save ourselves: the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York T2 - Asian American history and culture PY - 1992/// CY - Philadelphia PB - Temple University Press KW - Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York KW - History KW - New York (N.Y.) KW - Laundry industry KW - Chinese American in business KW - Electronic books N1 - Published 1992; Printed in the United States of America; The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Science—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984; E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Chinese Laundrymen in New York City -- The Emergence of the CHLA -- The Alliance Is for the Laundrymen -- “To Save China, To Save Ourselves” -- “The People's Diplomacy” -- The Struggle Over a Penny -- Where Is the Gold Mountain? -- Conclusion; “Laundry Song” by Wen I-to, p. v, from Twentieth Century Chinese Poetry by Kai-Yu Hsu. Copyright © 1963 by Kai-Yu Hsu. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc UR - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb34340 ER -