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Reconstructing Chinatown : ethnic enclave, global change / / Jan Lin



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Autore: Lin Jan Visualizza persona
Titolo: Reconstructing Chinatown : ethnic enclave, global change / / Jan Lin Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1998
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (270 p.)
Disciplina: 307.76097471
974.7/1
Soggetto topico: Chinese Americans - New York (State) - New York - Economic conditions
Chinese Americans - New York (State) - New York - Politics and government
Soggetto geografico: Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) Economic conditions
Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) Politics and government
New York (N.Y.) Economic conditions
New York (N.Y.) Politics and government
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 "orientalist" view by looking at the human dimensions and the larger forces of globalization that make this vital neighborhood both unique and broadly instructive.
Titolo autorizzato: Reconstructing Chinatown  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-8788-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910812703303321
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Serie: Globalization and community ; ; v. 2.