Chinatowns in a transnational world : myths and realities of an urban phenomenon / / edited by Vanessa Kunnemann and Ruth Mayer.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Kunnemann, Vanessa.; Mayer, Ruth, 1965-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: viii, 244 p. :; ill., ports.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: a "bit of orient set down in the heart of a western metropolis" : the Chinatown in the United States and Europe / Ruth Mayer
• New York after Chinatown: Canal Street and the "new world order" / John Kuo Wei Tchen
• "Chinese quarters" : maritime labor, Chinese migration, and local imagination in Rotterdam and Hamburg, 1900-1950 / Lars Amenda
• Cosmopolitan lifestyles and "yellow quarters" : traces of Chinese life in Germany, 1921-1941 / Dagmar Yu-Dembski
• Rehabilitating chinatown at mid-century : Chinese Americans, race, and us cultural diplomacy / Mary Lui
• "Curious kisses" : the Chinatown fantasies of Thomas Burke / Anne Witchard
• "The greatest novelty of the age" : Fu-Manchu, Chinatown, and the global city / Ruth Mayer
• The Donaldina Cameron myth and the rescue of America, 1910-2002 / Kirsten Twelbeck
• "Showing what it is to be Chinese" : China/town authenticity and hybridity in Pearl S. Buck's kinfolk / Vanessa Kunnemann
• "Food town" : Chinatown and the American journey of Chinese food / Yong Chen
• London's Chinatown and the changing shape of Chinese diaspora / Rosemary Sales with Panos Hatziprokopiou, Alessio D'Angelo and Xia Lin
• Chinatowns in transition : between ethnic enclave and global emblem / Flemming Christiansen.