Reconstructing Chinatown Ethnic Enclave, Global Change |
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| Author:
| Lin, Jan |
| Series title: | Globalization and Community Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8166-2905-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1998 |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $26.00 |
Book Description:
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In the American popular imagination, Chinatown is a mysterious and dangerous place, clannish and dilapidated, filled with sweatshops, vice, and organizational crime. This volume presents a real-world picture of New York City's Chinatown, countering the "orientalist" view by looking at the human dimensions and the larger forces of globalization that make this neighbourhood both unique and broadly instructive.
In the American popular imagination, Chinatown is a mysterious and dangerous place, clannish and dilapidated, filled with sweatshops, vice, and organizational crime. This volume presents a real-world picture of New York City's Chinatown, countering the "orientalist" view by looking at the human dimensions and the larger forces of globalization that make this neighbourhood both unique and broadly instructive.