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Chinatowns in a Transnational World : Myths and Realities of an Urban Phenomenon.
Interrelating different locations and time frames, this volume discloses both the€numerous analogies and fascinating differences which characterize the myths and realities of Chinatowns in Europe and the United States.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A "Bit of Orient Set Down in the Heart of a Western Metropolis": The Chinatown in the United States and Europe; 1 New York After Chinatown: Canal Street and the "New World Order"; 2 "Chinese Quarters": Maritime Labor, Chinese Migration, and Local Imagination in Rotterdam and Hamburg, 1900-1950; 3 Cosmopolitan Lifestyles and "Yellow Quarters": Traces of Chinese Life in Germany, 1921-1941; 4 Rehabilitating Chinatown at Mid-Century: Chinese Americans, Race, and US Cultural Diplomacy.
- 5 "Curious Kisses": The Chinatown Fantasies of Thomas Burke6 "The Greatest Novelty of the Age": Fu-Manchu, Chinatown, and the Global City; 7 The Donaldina Cameron Myth and the Rescue of America, 1910-2002; 8 "Showing what it is to be Chinese": China/Town Authenticity and Hybridity in Pearl S. Buck's Kinfolk; 9 "Food Town": Chinatown and the American Journey of Chinese Food; 10 London's Chinatown and the Changing Shape of Chinese Diaspora; 11 Chinatowns in Transition: Between Ethnic Enclave and Global Emblem; Contributors; Index.