Chinatowns in a Transnational World

Vanessa Künnemann is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Hannover.Ruth Mayer is Chair of American Studies at the University of Hannover.

• Introduction: A "Bit of Orient Set Down in the Heart of a Western Metropolis": The Chinatown in the United States and Europe Ruth Mayer 1. New York After Chinatown: Canal Street and the "New World Order" John Kuo Wei Tchen 2. "Chinese Quarters": Maritime Labor, Chinese Migration, and Local Imagination in Rotterdam and Hamburg, 1900-1950 Lars Amenda 3. Cosmopolitan Lifestyles and "Yellow Quarters": Traces of Chinese Life in Germany, 1921-1941 Dagmar Yu-Dembski 4. Rehabilitating Chinatown at Mid-Century: Chinese Americans, Race, and US Cultural Diplomacy Mary Lui 5. "Curious Kisses": The Chinatown Fantasies of Thomas Burke Anne Witchard 6. "The Greatest Novelty of the Age": Fu-Manchu, Chinatown, and the Global City Ruth Mayer 7. The Donaldina Cameron Myth and the Rescue of America, 1910-2002 Kirsten Twelbeck 8. "Showing What It Is to Be Chinese": China/Town Authenticity and Hybridity in Pearl S. Buck’s Kinfolk Vanessa Künnemann 9. "Food Town": Chinatown and the American Journey of Chinese Food Yong Chen 10. London’s Chinatown and the Changing Shape of Chinese Diaspora Rosemary Sales with Panos Hatziprokopiou, Alessio D’Angelo and Xia Lin 11. Chinatowns in Transition: Between Ethnic Enclave and Global Emblem Flemming Christiansen