The Politics of Survival: A Comparative Study of Chinatown Development in New York, San Francisco, and Chicago

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Brief Overview

Why do Chinatowns have different trajectories of development? I argue that the trajectory of Chinatown development is shaped by the combined effects of its internal power structure and its external political relationship with outside actors.

Author

• Kaiyu Li, University of Illinois at Chicago