Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
viii, 244 p. : ill., ports. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: 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 Kunnemann -- "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. |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
Subject |
Ethnic neighborhoods.
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Chinatowns.
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National characteristics, Chinese.
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Culture and globalization.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Kunnemann, Vanessa.
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Mayer, Ruth, 1965-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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ISBN |
9780415890397 (hbk) |
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0203814738 (master e-book) |
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9780203814734 (electronic bk.) |
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