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Chinatown a quarter of any city or town outside China with a predominantly Chinese population How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Arguing against the conceptualization of Chinatowns as insular bachelor societies, Lui posits that the making of ethnically-homogeneous community was the result of active efforts by the police, social reformers, and journalists to map out the boundaries of a space that they could more effectively contain for the purposes of regulating the behaviors of Chinese immigrants as well as protecting white womanhood. For example, various readers praise Chu's novel for its pronounced revision of prior literary representations of Chinatowns and its bold fashioning of an alternative Chinese-American sensibility but simultaneously restrict the book's significance to its "carnivalesque" qualities:(1) the squalid, run-down New York Chinatown; the resourceful, tough-minded bachelors; and the richly nuanced voices and vocabulary that defy cultural standards of both China and of mainstream America. Anti-Asian hostility motivated the formation of tightly knit associations that made Chinatowns and their inhabitants seem secretive and off-putting to mainstream America. |
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