Chinatowns in a transnational world : myths and realities of an urban phenomenon /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Künnemann, Vanessa, Mayer, Ruth, 1965-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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 Künnemann
  • "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.