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Author | : Kathryn Wilson |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2015-04-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439912157 |
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Philadelphia’s Chinatown, like many urban chinatowns, began in the late nineteenth century as a refuge for immigrant laborers and merchants in which to form a community to raise families and conduct business. But this enclave for expression, identity, and community is also the embodiment of historical legacies and personal and collective memories. In Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia’s Chinatown. Kathryn Wilson charts the unique history of this neighborhood. After 1945, a new generation of families began to shape Chinatown’s future. As plans for urban renewal—ranging from a cross-town expressway and commuter rail in the 1960s to a downtown baseball stadium in 2000—were proposed and developed, “Save Chinatown” activists rose up and fought for social justice. Wilson chronicles the community’s efforts to save and renew itself through urban planning, territorial claims, and culturally specific rebuilding. She shows how these efforts led to Chinatown’s growth and its continued ability to serve as a living community for subsequent waves of new immigration.
Author | : Lena Sze |
Publisher | : Damaris Publishing |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Chinatown Lives Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Consisting of twenty-two interviews with a diverse array of Chinatown residents and framed by three essays situating the interviews in a social and political context, this book focuses on residents' definitions of their own community and neighborhood in terms of people, events, and institutions.
Author | : Kay Anderson |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2019-01-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1786608995 |
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‘Chinatowns’ are familiar places in almost all major cities in the world. In popular Western wisdom, the restaurants, pagodas, and red lanterns are intrinsically equated with a self-contained, immigrant Chinese district, an alien enclave of ‘the East’ in ‘the West’. By the 1980s, when these Western societies had largely given up their racially discriminatory immigration policies and opened up to Asian immigration, the dominant conception of Chinatown was no longer that of an abject ethnic ghetto: rather, Chinatown was now seen as a positive expression of multicultural heritage and difference. By the early 21st century, however, these spatial and cultural constructions of Chinatown as an ‘other’ space – whether negative or positive – have been thoroughly destabilised by the impacts of accelerating globalisation and transnational migration. This book provides a timely and much-needed paradigm shift in this regard, through an in-depth case study of Sydney’s Chinatown. It speaks to the growing multilateral connections that link Australia and Asia (and especially China) together; not just economically, but also socially and culturally, as a consequence of increasing transnational flows of people, money, ideas and things. Further, the book elicits a particular sense of a place in Sydney’s Chinatown: that of an interconnected world in which Western and Asian realms inhabit each other, and in which the orientalist legacy is being reconfigured in new deployments and more complex delimitations. As such, Chinatown Unbound engages with, and contributes to making sense of, the epochal shift in the global balance of power towards Asia, especially China.
Author | : Dr. Laureen D. Hom |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2024-06-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520391233 |
Download The Power of Chinatown Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Urban Chinatowns are dynamic, contested spaces that have persevered amid changes in the American cityscape. These neighborhoods are significant for many, from the residents and workers who rely on them for their livelihoods to the broader Chinese American community and political leaders who recognize their cultural heritage and economic value. In The Power of Chinatown, Laureen D. Hom provides a critical examination of the politics shaping the trajectory of development in Los Angeles Chinatown, one of the oldest urban Chinatowns in the United States. Working from ethnographic fieldwork, Hom chronicles how Chinese Americans continue to gravitate to this space—despite being a geographically dispersed community—and how they have both resisted and encouraged processes of gentrification and displacement. The Power of Chinatown bridges understandings of community, geography, political economy, and race to show the complexities and contradictions of building community power, illuminating how these place-based ethnic politics might give rise to a more expansive vision of Asian American belonging and a just city for all.
Author | : Jae-Hyup Lee |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780815331186 |
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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Grace S. H. Chao Auyang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Chinese |
ISBN | : |
Download Structural and Processual Change in Philadelphia's Chinatown and Among Suburban Chinese Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jan Lin |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781452903569 |
Download Reconstructing Chinatown Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Freek Colombijn |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2003-08-29 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1134462522 |
Download Urban Ethnic Encounters Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Urban Ehtnic Encounters attempts to answer the two leading questions of how urban space structures the life of ethnic groups and how ethnic diversity helps to shape urban space. A multidisciplinary team of authors searches the various dimensions of the spatial organization of inter-ethnic relations in cities and countries around the globe. Unlike most ethnographies in which authors write about the 'other' in faraway places, the majority of the contributors have studied their own society. The case studies are from four different continents. Material is presented from diverse locations such as the cities of Toronto, Philadelphia, Vienna, Beirut, Jakarta, Tehran, Osaka and Albuquerque, and the countries of Israel, Brazil and Taiwan, presents a unique opportunity for comparative analysis of ethnicity and spatial patterns. From this wealth of material important inter-cultural conclusions can be made about urban ethnic diversity.
Author | : Paul Kahan |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2024-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1512826308 |
Download Philadelphia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Philadelphia is famous for its colonial and revolutionary buildings and artifacts, which draw tourists from far and wide to gain a better understanding of the nation’s founding. Philadelphians, too, value these same buildings and artifacts for the stories they tell about their city. But Philadelphia existed long before the Liberty Bell was first rung, and its history extends well beyond the American Revolution.In Philadelphia: A Narrative History, Paul Kahan presents a comprehensive portrait of the city, from the region’s original Lenape inhabitants to the myriad of residents in the twenty-first century. As any history of Philadelphia should, this book chronicles the people and places that make the city unique: from Independence Hall to Eastern State Penitentiary, Benjamin Franklin and Betsy Ross to Cecil B. Moore and Cherelle Parker. Kahan also shows us how Philadelphia has always been defined by ethnic, religious, and racial diversity—from the seventeenth century, when Dutch, Swedes, and Lenapes lived side by side along the Delaware; to the nineteenth century, when the city was home to a vibrant community of free Black and formerly enslaved people; to the twentieth century, when it attracted immigrants from around the world. This diversity, however, often resulted in conflict, especially over access to public spaces. Those two themes— diversity and conflict— have shaped Philadelphia’s development and remain visible in the city’s culture, society, and even its geography. Understanding Philadelphia’s past, Kahan says, is key to envisioning future possibilities for the City of Brotherly Love.
Author | : Gluck and Chadbourne Associates |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1975* |
Genre | : Chinatown (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
ISBN | : |
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