Chinatown Unbound

Trans-Asian Urbanism in the Age of China

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvKay Anderson,Ien Ang,Andrea Del Bono,Donald McNeill,Alexandra Wong

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‘Chinatowns’ are familiar places in almost all major cities in the world. In popular Western wisdom, the restaurants, pagodas, and red lanterns are intrinsically equated with a self-contained, immigrant Chinese district, an alien enclave of ‘the East’ in ‘the West’. By the 1980s, when these Western societies had largely given up their racially discriminatory immigration policies and opened up to Asian immigration, the dominant conception of Chinatown was no longer that of an abject ethnic ghetto: rather, Chinatown was now seen as a positive expression of multicultural heritage and difference. By the early 21st century, however, these spatial and cultural constructions of Chinatown as an ‘other’ space – whether negative or positive – have been thoroughly destabilised by the impacts of accelerating globalisation and transnational migration. This book provides a timely and much-needed paradigm shift in this regard, through an in-depth case study of Sydney’s Chinatown. It speaks to the growing multilateral connections that link Australia and Asia (and especially China) together; not just economically, but also socially and culturally, as a consequence of increasing transnational flows of people, money, ideas and things. Further, the book elicits a particular sense of a place in Sydney’s Chinatown: that of an interconnected world in which Western and Asian realms inhabit each other, and in which the orientalist legacy is being reconfigured in new deployments and more complex delimitations. As such, Chinatown Unbound engages with, and contributes to making sense of, the epochal shift in the global balance of power towards Asia, especially China.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-10-21
Mått153 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt463 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538147894

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Kay Anderson, Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia.Ien Ang, Distinguished Professor of Cultural Studies, Western Sydney University, Australia.Andrea Del Bono, PhD Graduate, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia.Donald McNeill, Professor of Urban and Cultural Geography, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia.Alexandra Wong, Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia.

1. Introduction: Chinatown Unbound2. Chinatown in Australia’s Asian Century: From Enclave to Global Hub3. Building Chinatown: Commercial Vernaculars, Urban Governance and Asian Spatial Templates4. China’s Town? Chinatown’s Shifting Demography5. Towards ‘Asia-Town’? Chinatown’s Cultural Diversity6. Doing Business in Chinatown: Beyond the ‘Ethnic Sub-Economy’7. Branding Chinatown: From Flexible Chineseness to Multi-Asianness8. Consuming Chinatown: The Rise of a Trans-Asian Urban Youth Culture 9. Curating Chinatown: Public Art beyond Orientalism10. Conclusion: Chinatown’s Future and the Prefiguration of an Australian Trans-Asian Metropolis

By portraying Sydney’s Chinatown as a communicative space in which people cross and challenge national boundaries to articulate their views and connect their voices, the book reminds readers that Chinatown is more a mental construct than an administrative or geographical reality. And by offering a sophisticated view of both new and evolving identities in Chinatown, it demolishes the idea of fixed boundaries that curtails potential epistemological avenues. Most importantly, it is a valuable corrective to the power imbalance between the West (Europe and North America) and the Rest (in this case, Asia), which has rendered Asianness and Chineseness a distant, fictive voice. . . both experts and lay readers can benefit from reading about a Chinatown that can be interpreted in many innovative ways and relish the challenges and opportunities of navigating its possibilities.

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