Filmmaker and author Arthur Dong will speak at the San Francisco Main Library this Tuesday at 6pm about his new book Forbidden City, USA: Chinese American Nightclubs, 1936-1970.
Dong spent 30 years putting this book together on the San Francisco Chinatown nightclub scene over four decades.
A book sale and signing will follow.Visitors will also get a chance to check out an accompanying exhibition running through July 6 at the library.
To get you in the mood, check out Rick Quan’s story below on one of Chinatown’s most famous performers, Dorothy Toy Fong.
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