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Reconstructing Chinatown: Ethnic Enclave, Global Change: 2 (Globalization and Community)
Jan Lin
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paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFC; JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
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An exploration of this fascinating community as a window on globalization.
In the American popular imagination, Chinatown is a mysterious and dangerous place, clannish and dilapidated, filled with sweatshops, vice, and organized crime. In this well-written and engaging volume, Jan Lin presents a real-world picture of New York City’s Chinatown, countering this “orientalist” view by looking at the human dimensions...
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816629053
SKU
V9780816629053
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99-50
About Jan Lin
Jan Lin is associate professor of sociology at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He previously taught at Amherst College and the University of Houston.
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