Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia's Chinatown
Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia’s Chinatown: Space, Place, and Struggle is a 2015 academic book by Kathryn Elizabeth Wilson, published by Temple University Press. It includes the history of Chinatown, Philadelphia.
The book documents community resistance against urban renewal plans to destroy parts of Chinatown.[1]
Alyssa Ribeiro of Allegheny College wrote that the book highlights how people in the neighborhood kept it alive in a carefully-done manner.[2]
Content
[edit]The book's scope begins with the latter part of the 1800s.[3] The first two chapters cover that period to the 1940s, while the following four were about attempts to stop razing portions of the neighborhood in subsequent eras.[4]
Ribeiro wrote that the book had more focus on the period circa 1971–2016.[2]
Reception
[edit]Flemming Christiansen of University of Duisburg-Essen stated that the book is "superbly written", and that the sections regarding anti-bulldozing efforts were the highest quality portion of the book.[4] Christiansen argued that the book could have showed how Chinatown had also incorporated groups of people not of Asian origin.[5]
Scott Kurashige of the University of Washington Bothell wrote that the work successfully shows the point of view of Chinatown residents even though Wilson does not present herself as having an "insider's account".[1] Kurashige also praised how the book shows that pro-Chinatown activists sometimes had different beliefs on what should happen to Chinatown.[1]
References
[edit]- Christiansen, Flemming (2017). "Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia's Chinatown. Space, Place and Struggle, written by Kathryn E. Wilson". Journal of Chinese overseas. 13 (1): 146–148 – via Brill.
- Kurashige, Scott (2016). "Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia's Chinatown: Space, Place, and Struggle. (Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy)". American Historical Review. 121 (2): 596–597. JSTOR 43955839.
- Ribeiro, Alyssa (2016). "Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia's Chinatown: Space, Place, and Struggle". Pennsylvania history. 83 (2): 288–290. doi:10.5325/pennhistory.83.2.0288. JSTOR 10.5325/pennhistory.83.2.0288.
Notes
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Dilworth, Richardson (2017). "Ethnic renewal in Philadelphia's Chinatown: Space, place, and struggle, by Kathryn E. Wilson: Philadelphia, PA, Temple University Press, 2015". Journal of Urban Affairs. 39 (7): 1028–1030. doi:10.1080/07352166.2017.1288428.
- Huynh, Jennifer (2017). "Kathryn Wilson Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia's Chinatown: Space, Place, and Struggle (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2015, 249 pp., $29.95 pbk; $84.50 hbk): REVIEW". Studies in ethnicity and nationalism. 17: 381–383.
- McDonogh, G.W (2015). "Wilson, Kathryn E.: Ethnic renewal in Philadelphia's Chinatown: space, place, and struggle.(Book review)". CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. 53 (2): 314.
- Rouse, Wendy (2016). "Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia's Chinatown: Space, Place, and Struggle". Journal of American History. 103 (1): 215.