The New Chinatown

Newspapers today are filled with stories of corruption and strife in America's Chinatowns, reversing the popular view of Chinese Americans as a model minority of law-abiding, hard-working people whose diligent children end up in high-tech jobs. InThe New Chinatown, Peter Kwong goes beyond the headlines in a compelling and detailed account of the political and cultural isolation of Chinese-American communities. This new edition offers a revised and updated text as well as a new chapter on Chinatown in the 1990s.

Peter Kwong is director of the Asian American Studies Program at Hunter College.

Introduction	p. 3
The Old Chinatown Ghettos	p. 11
Economic Boom in New York's Chinatown	p. 25
The Woes of Foreign Capital	p. 43
A Model Minority Community?	p. 57
Chinatown's Informal Political Structure	p. 81
Tongs, Gangs, and the Godfather	p. 107
The Community and Government Institutions	p. 124
The Chinese and the American Labor Unions	p. 137
Grass-Roots Organizing and Coalition Building	p. 160
Unwelcome Newcomers: Chinatown in the 1990s	p. 174
Conclusion	p. 202
Notes	p. 206
Bibliography	p. 213
Index	p. 221
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