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

• Autore: Lin Jan
• 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
• ISBN: 0-8166-8788-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812703303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Globalization and community ; ; v. 2.