Abstract:In the 1930s, Japanese Americans owned a majority of the curio shops on Grant Avenue, the main tourist thoroughfare of San Francisco’s Chinatown. During this same period, Japan invaded China, starting a conflict that shaped relations between San Francisco’s Chinese American and Japanese American communities as well. While some Japanese American elites began to describe Issei business successes in Chinatown as an extension of Japan’s triumphs in Asia, the city’s Chinese American merchants cast their competitors… Show more
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