Full Description
The phenomenon of "Chinatown" has been of great interest to the general public as well as scholars. Movies and story books have made Chinatown to be exotic, mysterious, gangster filled, and sometimes, a gilded ghetto, an ethnopolis, a cultural diaspora as well as a model community. The authors of Chinatowns around the World seek to expose the social reality of Chinatowns with empirical data. The authors also examine the changing nature and functions of Chinatowns around the world while scrutinizing how factors emanating from larger societies and other external factors have shaped Chinatown development and transformation. The activities of the recent Chinese transnational migrants are also critically appraised.
Contents
Introduction Chinatowns around the World
Bernard Wong
Chapter One Vancouver Chinatown in Transition
Peter S. Li and Xiaoling Li
Chapter Two From Mott Street to East Broadway: Fuzhounese Immigrants and the Revitalization of New York's Chinatown
Kenneth J. Guest
Chapter Three The New Trends in American Chinatowns: The Case of the Chinese in Chicago
Huping Ling
Chapter Four Chinatown Sydney: A Window on the Chinese Community
Christine Inglis
Chapter Five The Chinatown in Peru and the Changing Peruvian Chinese Communities
Isabelle Lausent-Herrera
Chapter Six Chinatown Havana: One Hundered and Sixty Years below the Surface
Adrian H. Hearn
Chapter Seven Problematizing "Chinatowns": Conflicts and Narratives Surrounding Chinese Quarters in and around Paris
Chuang Ya-Han and Anne-Christine Trémon
Chapter Eight Chinatown-Lisbon? Portrait of a Globalizing Present over a National Background
Paula Mota Santos
Chapter Nine Ikebukuro Chinatown in Tokyo: The First "New Chinatown" in Japan
Yamashita Kiyomi
Chapter Ten Chinatowns: A Reflection
Tan Chee-Beng
