Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : A personal reflection on the study of Chinatown and beyond
  • Part I. Historical and global contexts : The Chinese diaspora and international migration
  • Part II. Immigration, demographic trends, and community dynamics : Demographic trends and characteristics of contemporary Chinese America
  • In and out of Chinatown: residential segregation and mobility among Chinese immigrants in New York City
  • Suburbanization and new trends in community development: The case of Chinese ethnoburbs in the San Gabriel Valley, California, / with Yen-Fen Tseng and Rebecca Y. Kim
  • The organizational structure of the ethnic enclave : Immigrant entrepreneurship and the enclave economy: the case of New York City's Chinatown
  • Chinese-language media in the United States
  • Chinese schools and the ethnic system of supplementary education
  • The family and the new second generation : The other half of the sky: immigrant women in Chinatown's enclave economy
  • Negotiating Chinese and ethnicity: intergenerational relations in Chinese immigrant families
  • "Parachute kids" in Southern California: the educational experience of Chinese children in transnational families
  • The future of Chinese America : Rethinking assimilation: the paradox of "model Minority" and "perpetual foreigner"
  • Appendix : Recommended films on the Chinese American experience.