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Min Zhou is Professor of
Sociology and Asian American
Studies at the University of
California, Los Angeles.
She is the author of Chinatown
(Temple) and The Transformation
of Chinese America, co-author
of Growing Up American, and
co-editor of Asian American
Youth and Contemporary
Asian America.
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Contemporary Chinese America
I m m i g r a t i o n , E t h n i c i t y, a n d
C o m m u n i t y Tr a n s f o r m a t i o n
Min Zhou
forward by Alejandro Portes
A sociologist of international migration examines
the Chinese American experience
“Contemporary Chinese America is full of richly detailed analyses and
insightful interpretations. Most remarkable is the breadth and depth
of the coverage. From New York’s Chinatown to California’s ethnoburbs
and from entrepreneurship to gender, ethnicity, education, and intergenerational
relations, this important book is an indispensable guide
to understanding the experiences of Chinese immigrants and their
children.” —Nancy Foner, Distinguished Professor of Sociology,
Hunter College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York
“Through her sociological insight, Zhou’s new book deepens our understanding
of many aspects of contemporary Chinese America such as
family, education, or enclave economy. Pushing the field to a new level,
her scholarship is a must in race, ethnicity, and immigration studies.”
—Haiming Liu, Professor of Asian American Studies, Cal Poly Pomona
Contemporary Chinese America is the most comprehensive sociological
investigation of the experiences of Chinese immigrants to the United States
—and of their offspring—in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
The author, Min Zhou, is a well-known sociologist of the Chinese American
experience. In this volume, she collects her original research on a range of
subjects, including the causes and consequences of emigration from China,
demographic trends of Chinese Americans, patterns of residential mobility
in the U.S., Chinese American “ethnoburbs,” immigrant entrepreneurship,
ethnic enclave economies, gender and work, Chinese language media, Chinese
schools, and intergenerational relations. The concluding chapter, “Rethinking
Assimilation,” ponders the future for Chinese Americans. Also included are an
extensive bibliography and a list of recommended documentary films.
While the book is particularly well-suited for college courses in Chinese
American studies, ethnic studies, Asian studies, and immigration studies, it
will interest anyone who wants to more fully understand the lived experience
of contemporary Chinese Americans.
In the Asian American History and Culture series,
edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh Võ
Forthcoming from Temple University Press...

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