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Asian American history and culture.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-297) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction : A personal reflection on the study of Chinatown and beyond -- Part I. Historical and global contexts : The Chinese diaspora and international migration -- Part II. Immigration, demographic trends, and community dynamics : Demographic trends and characteristics of contemporary Chinese America -- In and out of Chinatown: residential segregation and mobility among Chinese immigrants in New York City -- Suburbanization and new trends in community development: The case of Chinese ethnoburbs in the San Gabriel Valley, California, / with Yen-Fen Tseng and Rebecca Y. Kim -- The organizational structure of the ethnic enclave : Immigrant entrepreneurship and the enclave economy: the case of New York City's Chinatown -- Chinese-language media in the United States -- Chinese schools and the ethnic system of supplementary education -- The family and the new second generation : The other half of the sky: immigrant women in Chinatown's enclave economy -- Negotiating Chinese and ethnicity: intergenerational relations in Chinese immigrant families -- "Parachute kids" in Southern California: the educational experience of Chinese children in transnational families -- The future of Chinese America : Rethinking assimilation: the paradox of "model Minority" and "perpetual foreigner" -- Appendix : Recommended films on the Chinese American experience. |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web. |
Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 21, 2016). |
Subject |
Chinese Americans -- Social conditions.
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Chinese -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Chinese American families.
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Chinese Americans -- Ethnic identity.
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Community life -- United States.
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Intergenerational relations -- United States.
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China -- Emigration and immigration.
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United States -- Emigration and immigration.
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Asian Americans.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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Related To |
Print version: Zhou, Min, 1956- Contemporary Chinese America. Philadelphia, PA : Temple Univ. Press, ©2009 9781592138579 1592138578 (DLC) 2008049611 |
ISBN |
9781592138593 electronic book |
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1592138594 electronic book |
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9781592138579 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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1592138578 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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9781592138586 paper ; alkaline paper |
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1592138586 paper ; alkaline paper |
OCLC # |
EBC432842 |
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