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Cover 1 Series Info, Title Page, Copyright 2 Contents 6 Tables, Figures, and Photographs 7 Preface 8 1. Patterns of Chinese Settlement in the United States 14 2. An Approach to the Chinese in Queens 40 3. One Hundred Households 62 4. The Working Class: Three Portraits 104 5. The Small Business Class: Three Portraits 117 6. The Professional Class: Three Portraits 141 7. Social Services and Worship 158 8. Chinese Associations as Bridges 196 9. The Chinese and the Queens Festival 245 10. A Summing Up 259 References 278 Index 290 Further Series Titles 295 Publisher:Cornell University Press,Published:2018,ISBN:9781501721366,Related ISBN:9780801499890,DOI:10.1353/book.58010,Language:English,OCLC:1057696839 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 intervie

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Author

Chen, Hsiang-Shui

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801499890

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Humanities