Based largely on interviews from residents of Atlanta's Chinese community, this book provides new insights on the rise of Asian communities in the Southeast United States since the US immigration policy changes in 1965.
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Zhao's study offers a necessary corrective to starkly black-and-white conceptions of the region's race relations..
–Pacific Affairs, Fall 2003
–Pacific Affairs, Fall 2003
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In Chinatown Square Shopping Center in Chamblee, northeast Atlanta, a Chinese woman who prefers to be called Zhuang-Tse owns and runs, with the help of her two sons, "Little Mandarin," one of the six fast-food services in the food court, the only one featuring Mandarin cuisine. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eighteen credit hours, unrelated conversation, sixth preference, permanent residency status, original interview, family unification, director engineer Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Sally Woo, Atlanta Chinese, Bobby Woo, Hong Kong, Wenjian Yang, Chinese Americans, Chinese Yellow Pages, Mississippi Delta, Asian American, Jesus Christ, San Francisco, You-Er Gao, Metro Atlanta, New Peachtree Road, Sue Kwan, North America, Chinatown Square, Georgia Tech, Hoi Lau Kwan, Chinese Community News, Post-Civil War South, Ben Huang, Georgia State University New!
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In Chinatown Square Shopping Center in Chamblee, northeast Atlanta, a Chinese woman who prefers to be called Zhuang-Tse owns and runs, with the help of her two sons, "Little Mandarin," one of the six fast-food services in the food court, the only one featuring Mandarin cuisine. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eighteen credit hours, unrelated conversation, sixth preference, permanent residency status, original interview, family unification, director engineer Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Sally Woo, Atlanta Chinese, Bobby Woo, Hong Kong, Wenjian Yang, Chinese Americans, Chinese Yellow Pages, Mississippi Delta, Asian American, Jesus Christ, San Francisco, You-Er Gao, Metro Atlanta, New Peachtree Road, Sue Kwan, North America, Chinatown Square, Georgia Tech, Hoi Lau Kwan, Chinese Community News, Post-Civil War South, Ben Huang, Georgia State University New!
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- Mississippi Delta (Natural Wonders) by Jason Cooper on 4 pages
- China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston on 4 pages
- Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings By and About Asian American Women by Asian Women United of California on 4 pages
- Chinatown No More: Taiwan Immigrants in Contemporary New York (Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) by Hsiang-Shui Chen on 4 pages
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- Locating China: Space, Place, and Popular Culture by Jing Wang in Back Matter
- Atlanta: An Illustrated History by Andy Ambrose in Back Matter
- Remaking Chinese Urban Form: Modernity, Scarcity and Space, 1949-2005 (Planning, History and Environment Series) by Duanfang Lu in Back Matter
- Migrant Workers in Pacific Asia (Studies in Asia Pacific Business) by Yaw A. Debrah on page 158
- Working in China: Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation (Asia's Transformations) by Ching Kwan Lee on page 74
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