Chinatowns in a transnational world
Subtitle: myths and realities of an urban phenomenon
By: edited by Vanessa Künnemann and Ruth Mayer
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780415890397
Subjects: Ethnic neighborhoods; Chinese National characteristics; Culture and globalization; Chinatowns
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a "bit of orient set down in the heart of a western metropolis" : the Chinatown in the United States and Europe / Ruth Mayer; title: New York after Chinatown: Canal Street and the "new world order" / John Kuo Wei Tchen; title: "Chinese quarters" : maritime labor, Chinese migration, and local imagination in Rotterdam and Hamburg, 1900-1950 / Lars Amenda; title: Cosmopolitan lifestyles and "yellow quarters" : traces of Chinese life in Germany, 1921-1941 / Dagmar Yu-Dembski; title: Rehabilitating chinatown at mid-century : Chinese Americans, race, and us cultural diplomacy / Mary Lui; title: "Curious kisses" : the Chinatown fantasies of Thomas Burke / Anne Witchard; title: "The greatest novelty of the age" : Fu-Manchu, Chinatown, and the global city / Ruth Mayer; title: The Donaldina Cameron myth and the rescue of America, 1910-2002 / Kirsten Twelbeck; title: "Showing what it is to be Chinese" : China/town authenticity and hybridity in Pearl S. Buck's kinfolk / Vanessa Künnemann; title: "Food town" : Chinatown and the American journey of Chinese food / Yong Chen; title: London's Chinatown and the changing shape of Chinese diaspora / Rosemary Sales with Panos Hatziprokopiou, Alessio D'Angelo and Xia Lin; title: Chinatowns in transition : between ethnic enclave and global emblem / Flemming Christiansen.