Chinatowns in a transnational world : myths and realities of an urban phenomenon / / edited by Vanessa Kunnemann and Ruth Mayer.
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Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | viii, 244 p. :; ill., ports. |
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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.