Reconstructing Chinatown

Ethnic Enclave, Global Change

By: Jan Lin

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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 and the larger forces of globalization that make this vital neighborhood both unique and broadly instructive.

Using interviews with residents, firsthand observation, archival research, and U.S. census data, Lin delivers an informed, reliable picture of Chinatown today. Lin claims that to understand contemporary ethnic neighborhoods like this one we must dispense with notions of monolithic "community". When he looks at Chinatown, Lin sees a neighborhood that is being rebuilt, both literally and economically. Rather than a clannish and unified peer group, he sees substantial class inequality and internal social conflict. There is also social change, most visibly manifested in dramatic episodes of collective action by sweatshop workers and community activists and in the growing influence of Chinatown's denizens in electoral politics.

Popular portrayals of Chinatown also reflect a new global reality: as American cities change with the international economy, traditional assumptions about immigrant incorporation into U.S. society alter as well. Lin describes the public disquiet and official response regarding immigration, shops, and the influx of Asian capital. He outlines the ways that local, state, and federal governments have directed and gained from globalization in Chinatown through banking deregulation and urban redevelopment policy.

Finally, Linputs forth Chinatown as a central enclave in the "world city" of New York, arguing that globalization brings similar structural processes of urban change to diverse locations. In the end, Lin moves beyond the myth of Chinatown, clarifying the meaning of globalization and its myriad effects within the local context.

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
From Bachelor Society to Immigrant Enclave	p. 23
Labor Struggles: Sweatshop Workers and Street Traders	p. 57
The Nexus of Transnational and Local Capital: Chinatown Banking and Real Estate	p. 79
The Growth of Satellite Chinatowns	p. 107
Solidarity, Community, and Electoral Politics	p. 121
The Enclave and the State	p. 147
Encountering Chinatown: Tourism, Voyeurism, and the Cinema	p. 171
Community Change in Global Context	p. 189
Notes	p. 207
Bibliography	p. 219
Index	p. 235
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