Chinatowns around the world : : gilded ghetto, ethnopolis, and cultural diaspora / / edited by Bernard P. Wong and Tan Chee-Beng.
The phenomenon of “Chinatown” has been of great interest to the general public as well as scholars. Movies and story books have made Chinatown to be exotic, mysterious, gangster filled, and sometimes, a gilded ghetto, an ethnopolis, a cultural diaspora as well as a model community. The authors of Ch...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Chinatowns Around the World / Bernard P. Wong
- Vancouver Chinatown in Transition / Peter S. Li and Eva Xiaoling Li
- From Mott Street to East Broadway : Fuzhounese Immigrants and the Revitalization of New York's Chinatown / Kenneth J. Guest
- The New Trends in American Chinatowns : The Case of the Chinese in Chicago / Huping Ling
- Chinatown Sydney : A Window on the Chinese Community / Christine Inglis
- The Chinatown in Peru and the Changing Peruvian Chinese Communities / Isabelle Lausent-Herrera
- Chinatown Havana : One Hundred and Sixty Years Below the Surface / Adrian H. Hearn
- Problematizing "Chinatowns" : Conflicts and Narratives Surrounding Chinese Quarters in and around Paris / Ya-Han Chuang and Anne-Christine Tremon.