LEADER 03943oam 2200697I 450 001 9910789545803321 005 20230725031420.0 010 $a1-136-70924-X 010 $a1-283-44151-9 010 $a9786613441515 010 $a1-136-70925-8 010 $a0-203-81473-8 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203814734 035 $a(CKB)2670000000094008 035 $a(EBL)692376 035 $a(OCoLC)730151704 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000521463 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11913722 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000521463 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10518203 035 $a(PQKB)11363652 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC692376 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL692376 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10477589 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL344151 035 $a(OCoLC)732317536 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000094008 100 $a20180706d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aChinatowns in a transnational world $emyths and realities of an urban phenomenon /$fedited by Vanessa Kunnemann and Ruth Mayer 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York, N.Y. :$cRoutledge,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (251 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-84649-8 311 $a0-415-89039-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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 Ku?nnemann -- "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. 330 $aThis book explores the history, the reality, and the complex fantasy of American and European Chinatowns and traces the patterns of transnational travel and traffic between China, South East Asia, Europe, and the United States which informed the development of these urban sites. Despite obvious structural or architectural similarities and overlaps, Chinatowns differ markedly depending on their location. European versions of Chinatowns can certainly not be considered mere replications of the American model. Paying close attention to regional specificities and overarching similarities, Ch 606 $aEthnic neighborhoods 606 $aChinatowns 606 $aNational characteristics, Chinese 606 $aCulture and globalization 615 0$aEthnic neighborhoods. 615 0$aChinatowns. 615 0$aNational characteristics, Chinese. 615 0$aCulture and globalization. 676 $a307.3/362089951 701 $aKunnemann$b Vanessa$01553601 701 $aMayer$b Ruth$f1965-$01553602 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789545803321 996 $aChinatowns in a transnational world$93814268 997 $aUNINA