Reconstructing Chinatown : Ethnic Enclave, Global Change /

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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 "or...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lin, Jan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Politik
Politics and government
Economic history.
Chinese Americans > Politics and government.
Chinese Americans > Economic conditions.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Americains d'origine chinoise > New York (État) > New York > Conditions economiques.
Chinese Americans > New York (State) > New York > Politics and government.
Chinese Americans > New York (State) > New York > Economic conditions.
New York- Chinatown
New York (State) > New York > Chinatown.
New York (State) > New York.
New York (N.Y.) > Administration.
New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government.
New York (N.Y.) > Economic conditions.
Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) > Politics and government.
Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) > Economic conditions.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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