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Chinatown No More : Taiwan Immigrants in Contemporary New York / Hsiang-Shui Chen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chen, Hsiang-Shui, author.
- en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op, Author.
- Series:
- The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : 2 halftones, 1 map, 7 charts
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Hsiang-shui Chen is Professor and Director of the Institute of Anthropology at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan.
- Summary:
- By focusing on the social and cultural life of post-1965 Taiwan immigrants in Queens, New York, this book shifts Chinese American studies from ethnic enclaves to the diverse multiethnic neighborhoods of Flushing and Elmhurst. As Hsiang-shui Chen documents, the political dynamics of these settlements are entirely different from the traditional closed Chinese communities; the immigrants in Queens think of themselves as living in "worldtown," not in a second Chinatown. Drawing on interviews with members of a hundred households, Chen brings out telling aspects of demography, immigration experience, family life, and gender roles, and then turns to vivid, humanistic portraits of three families. Chen also describes the organizational life of the Chinese in Queens with a lively account of the power struggles and social interactions that occur within religious, sports, social service, and business groups and with the outside world.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables, Figures , and Photographs
- Preface
- PART I. Chinese Immigration and Scholars' Models
- Part II. Chinese Households of Three Classes
- Part III. Community Activities
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Jun 2019)
- ISBN:
- 1-5017-2136-4
- OCLC:
- 1028946181
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