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Reconstructing Chinatown : ethnic enclave, global change / Jan Lin

Lin, Jan [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [1998] [© 1998]

1 Online-Ressource (xix, 248 Seiten) : Illustrationen

Englisch

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. From Bachelor Society to Immigrant Enclave; 2. Labor Struggles: Sweatshop Workers and Street Traders; 3. The Nexus of Transnational and Local Capital: Chinatown Banking and Real Estate; 4. The Growth of Satellite Chinatowns; 5. Solidarity, Community, and Electoral Politics; 6. The Enclave and the State; 7. Encountering Chinatown: Tourism, Voyeurism, and the Cinema; 8. Community Change in Global Context; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Reconstructing Chinatown / Lin, Jan [GNDNR:1166099768] (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-8166-2904-6

0-8166-2905-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-8166-2904-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

LB 48610  | RU 20817      Ähnliche Literatur

F128.68.C47

307.76097471

Basisklassifikation: 15.87 (USA) <Geschichte>

*New York- Chinatown ; Politik      Zum Register

*New York- Chinatown ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government ; Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) -- Economic conditions ; New York (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions ; Chinese Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Economic conditions ; Chinese Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Politics and government ; Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) -- Politics and government

Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) ; Economic conditions ; Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) ; Politics and government ; Chinese Americans ; New York (State) ; New York ; Economic conditions ; Chinese Americans ; New York (State) ; New York ; Politics and government ; New York (N.Y.) ; Economic conditions ; New York (N.Y.) ; Politics and government ; Electronic books

In the American popular imagination, Chinatown is a mysterious and dangerous place, clannish and dilapidated, filled with sweatshops, vice, and organized crime. In this well-written and engaging volume, Jan Lin presents a real-world picture of New York City's Chinatown, countering this "orientalist" view by looking at the human dimensions and the larger forces of globalization that make this vital neighborhood both unique and broadly instructive