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Reconstructing Chinatown: Ethnic Enclave, Global Change
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
Reconstructing Chinatown: Ethnic Enclave, Global Change
Contributors:
By (Author) Jan Lin
Series:
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:
University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date:
1st July 1998
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Urban communities
Cultural studies
Social and cultural history
Dewey:
307.76097471
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
272
Dimensions:
Width 149mm, Height 229mm, Spine 15mm
Description
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.
