Once gaudy showplaces, seething with harlotry and fantastic crime, the Chinatowns of San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Chicago have had their splendor wiped away by police cleanup squads during a decade. Modern Chinatowns stand revealed as parts of the surrounding slums. Down their narrow streets busloads of thrill seekers trudge, disappointedly viewing Christian missions, Presbyterian churches, sack-suited U. S. Chinese. Only in curio-shops and such tourist centres do the sightseers glimpse a tawdry replica of the surroundings in which mandarins once paraded their gorgeous costumes on Chinese festival-days, in which...
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