Many of the titles Genthe chose for his images contain language and descriptions considered offensive or inaccurate. For a contemporary analysis of Genthe's photographs of Chinatown, please see John Kuo Wei Tchen's introduction in Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942; Tchen, John Kuo Wei. Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown. New York: Dover Publications, 1984.