Chinatowns Around the World - Gilded Ghetto, Ethnopolis, and Cultural Diaspora

The authors of Chinatowns around the World: Gilded Ghetto, Ethnopolis, and Cultural Diaspora seek to expose the social reality of Chinatowns with empirical data while examining the changing nature and functions of Chinatowns in different countries around the world.

About the author

Bernard P. WONG (Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1974) is professor emeritus of anthropology and a Faculty Research Fellow of the Center of US-China Policy Studies, San Francisco State University. He has conducted fieldwork on the Chinese in Peru, the United States, Japan, the Philippines and France. He is the author of several scholarly books, many book chapters and journal articles on the Chinese in New York, San Francisco, Lima-Peru, Manila, and Silicon Valley.

TAN Chee-Beng (Ph.D. in Anthropology, Cornell University, 1979) is Distinguished Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University. He has published on Chinese overseas and on Chinese communities in southern Fujian, covering ethnicity, food, religion and transnational networks.

Product details

• Assisted by: Chee-Beng Tan (Editor), Bernard P Wong (Editor), Bernard P. Wong (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.03.2013
• EAN: 9789004250079
• ISBN: 978-90-04-25007-9
• No. of pages: 318
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore