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Brouwers, Stephen Frans. "Chinese architectural practice and the spatial discourse of Vancouver's Chinatown." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2440.
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The thesis examines Chinese architectural practice within the city of Vancouver as a means of identifying the historical extent of Chinese lived social space and to challenge the notion that Vancouver's Chinatown existed as a clear and separate spatial category. By using a definition of space that includes its temporal dimension the thesis argues that Chinatown spatially is a dynamic phenomenon that has exhibited tremendous changes over the last 130 years. The intention of the thesis is two part, first it illustrates the historical significance of early Chinese architectural practice, and secondly, it begins to construct a spatial discourse that considers the totality of Chinese lived social space and its influence on the formation of the city of Vancouver.
The research specifically examines Chinese hybrid architectural practices that have been organized as a genealogy in an attempt to provide a means to identify and explain multiple points of origin from multiple sources. These practices have been placed within a series of maps defined by the Canadian Pacific Railway's subdivision of District Lot 196 and include Chinese land occupation, city zoning boundaries and major urban development proposals. The study is divided into fourteen discrete architectural cases. Although the cases are organized into three general periods the intention of the research is to identify the specific historical and contextual circumstances that produced and inform each case. The intention was to identify how hybrid architectural practices were used to negotiate space and produce new social practices.
The thesis reaffirms the social, historical and cultural significance of the architecture produced around the area identified as Chinatown. The area is populated with a number of historically significant buildings, comprising a number of distinct architectural practices that have produced some unique spatial conditions. The study also clearly refutes the conceptualization of Chinatown as a coherent or accurate historical image of Chinese lived social space within the city of Vancouver. The research identifies fundamental problems in the conception and historical description of Chinatown as a discretely defined space.
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Lim, Meng Howe. "Molding the unshapely structure : rebuilding Boston Chinatown." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68288.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1994.Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-98).
This study is an attempt to interpret and comprehend the development pattern of urban form in an ethnic community, in this case Boston Chinatown. The study does not propose a detailed urban design framework but calls for a sensitivity in future design interventions for strengthening the cohesive character of the district. . Contrary to conventional planning approaches which aim to regularize and integrate ethnic districts such as Chinatown into the 'city fabric', this thesis suggests a more cautious strategy in which the peculiarities of the 'unshapely' structure of the area are seen as opportunities to enhance and maintain its identity. The thesis acknowledges an organic wholeness of Chinatown where the physical structure is subservient to and a result of a complex network of vital socio-cultural processes. An increased awareness of these factors is essential in formulating future urban design guidelines for the remodeling and up gradation of the Chinatown district.
by Meng Howe Lim.
M.S.
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Cavello, Seth M. "The Expansion of Chinatown in New York City." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1250701523.
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Luo, Xiaofang 1971. "New opportunities for Boston's Chinatown : turnpike air rights." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68372.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2001.Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-83).
Boston's Chinatown is a regional business, cultural and service center to the Asian community in greater Boston area. However, it is confronting serious problems at this moment. These problems can be classified as three aspects: housing, connection and amenity. The shrinking of the territory and the dramatic increase in population has resulted in a high demand for affordable housing. Highway and urban renewal projects isolate Chinatown from its vicinity. For a long period of time, the Chinatown community and the neighborhoods nearby are lack of green space, service and cultural facilities. The proposed Turnpike Air Rights new development is a great challenge as well as a good opportunity for Chinatown. In this thesis, the research and design of the gateway site of Turnpike Air Rights (Parcel 20-23) is aimed to explore the solutions to the these problems. The mixed uses community-oriented planning and urban design shows the new face of the south edge of Chinatown by providing mixed-income housing, green spaces and civic plaza, community service, and good connections with its vicinity.
by Xiaofang Luo.
S.M.
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Eichelberger, Laura Palen. "The Politics of an Epidemic: SARS & Chinatown." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193461.
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This thesis explores how the 2003 epidemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, threw into relief the myriad historical, political and economic factors that shape understandings of and responses to a new disease. The author traces how the historic "othering" of Chinese immigrants and their descendents in the United States was combined with dominant discourses of risk and blame to understand SARS and the potential for a domestic epidemic. Narratives from community members of Manhattan's Chinatown are used to investigate the local impacts of the production of these discourses during the SARS epidemic. Finally, the author explores how these dominant discourses were applied locally within Chinatown understand local and personal risk.
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Cheung, Karmen. "New development : friend or foe to Chinatown small businesses?" Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111376.
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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2017.Thesis: S.M. in Real Estate Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Real Estate Development in conjunction with the Center for Real Estate, 2017.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 84-87).
Chinatowns in cities like Boston, New York, or Philadelphia have well established reputations as vibrant ethnic neighborhoods that draw tourists as well as working-Chinese immigrants. The individual businesses that line the streets of Chinatown are crucial to creating these unique urban neighborhoods. As cities are undergoing a new era of growth and real estate activity in urban centers is booming, the impacts on small businesses has not yet been widely researched. This thesis uses Chinatowns (in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia) as case studies to uncover the impacts of new real estate developments on small businesses. The research relied on a mixed-method approach, utilizing quantitative data from city reports or census data, as well as qualitative data derived from interviews with local stakeholders, particularly small business owners. The broad categories of impact documented include: (1) changes to inventory and availability of ground floor retail space, (2) a homogenization of storefront design, (3) changes to the residential community, and (4) rise in occupancy costs. In contrast, the top concerns identified by business owners were (1) the image of Chinatown as dirty and (2) the availability of parking. This thesis was not able to fully address the mismatch between the impacts of development and the concerns of business owners but is an area that deserves more research. The conclusion of this thesis provides readers with a preliminary framework for assessing displacement risks that can be applied to other ethnic districts and suggests possible interventions that can mitigate some of these risks.
by Karmen Cheung.
M.C.P.
S.M. in Real Estate Development
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Wei, Meei-Yau. "Practical dialogue Chinese language choices and adaptations in New York City's Chinatown /." access full-text, 1992. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ezdb/umi-r.pl?9231633.pdf.
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Li, Janice Y. K. (Janice Yan Kar) 1972. "Edge as place : building a community link in Boston's Chinatown." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68336.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-83).
How does one inhabit an edge with two sides that are different in culture, everyday life, and scale? How does one connect a physically fragmented community? How does one design a building that identifies with the Chinatown community without applying the usual "pagoda" kitsch? This thesis takes Boston 2000, a urban development plan for the Central Artery Project, as a starting point for an exploration on the above design problems with special attention paid to the roles urban context and cultural issues play on architecture.
by Janice Y.K. Li.
M.Arch.
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QUAN, JING. "SAN FRANCISCO'S CHINATOWN--A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING." The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/555369.
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Chiang, Alice T. "Cultural Identity in Contemporary Immigrant America: Placemaking in Marginal Urban Landscapes." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1377866341.
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Pashby, Michele. "Charting Contagions: Data Visualization of Disease in Late 19th-Century San Francisco Chinatown." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2185.
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In the late 1800s in San Francisco, Chinese immigrants faced racism and were blamed for the city’s public health crisis. To the rest of San Francisco, disease originated from Chinese people. However, through data visualization we can see that this was not the case. This paper maps cases of disease against the city’s sanitation system and shows how the lack of adequate infrastructure contributed to high rates of disease. Data visualization is an increasingly important tool that historians need to utilize to uncover new insights.
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Chow, Catherine W. "Chinatown geographies and the politics of race, space and the law." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31636.
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Vancouver's Chinatown has a dual personality: it is constructed by Chinese Canadians for themselves, and for and by a white settler society. Its material and symbolic constitution reveals an equal social order: the constitution of the space of Chinatown reproduces racial hierarchies through spatial and legal mechanisms. This thesis explores how place becomes race through law. Building from historic or cultural examinations of Chinatown, this thesis investigates the place-based mechanisms of law on the racialization of Chinatown in the 1960's. During this dynamic period of Chinatown's growth, the City of Vancouver initiated three construction projects: slum clearance, beautification and the freeway. Within these projects, there were intense struggles over the identity of Chinatown, and the Chinese. Chinatown's resistance against and complicity with these place-based legal mechanisms has been geographically articulated in its landscape, accounting for its dual personality.Law, Peter A. Allard School of
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Zhu, Jie. "Design for a unique part of our multicultural mosaic, Winnipeg's Chinatown." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ62877.pdf.
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Lee, Kimberly Anne. "Reclaiming community through multiple generations mixed-use housing in Portland's Chinatown /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1485.
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Thesis (M. Arch.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.Thesis research directed by: School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Shen, James M. Arch Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Repositioning Chinatown Las Vegas : theming authenticity and theory of boring architecture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41759.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-171).
China's surging economy compels cities worldwide to employ an extreme form of reverse colonization. A race is in progress to build the world's largest Chinatown. St. Petersburg and Dubai's are under construction and London is talking about it. Las Vegas belatedly joins the competition. The city already boasts the fist planned Chinatown - although it's just a strip mall. Learning from the success of its Chinatown Plaza, I propose an instant "Worlds' largest Chinatown" in collaboration with the newly formed International Chinatown Development Corporation. Situated in the capital of theming, Chinatown Las Vegas offers something different. The Paris Hotel Casino doesn't come with Parisians, but Chinatown Las Vegas comes with the Chinese. How can Chinatown exploit its themed people to market its notorious otherness? The success of current architectural practices of them- ing rests on its ability to mask the banal with signifiers of the exotic. The effects of this "shock and awe" approach, however, are short lived. My project offers an alternative; I begin with the banal to not end there. Instead of designing every aspect of the new Chinatown, I will populate the site with ready-mades; "carpet theming" by copy-paste. Preserving all existing buildings on the site, multistory Platforms (parking structures) fill current parking lots. Chinatown Signage (Chinatown Plaza roof multiplied) blankets the site, pinned to the ground by Cores (infrastructure towers). With: 3 components 1 square mile 1 manual (25 examples) 20,000 Chinese an infrastructure for guerrilla programming is deployed. The architect fastens the parts as the themed population begins the occupation.
by James Shen.
M.Arch.
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Kelso-Marsh, Caleb. "It's Chinatown: Orientalist discourse and the city in the noir tradition." Thesis, Kelso-Marsh, Caleb (2015) It's Chinatown: Orientalist discourse and the city in the noir tradition. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2015. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/27071/.
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This thesis provides an analysis of the films Chinatown (1974) and Blade Runner (1982) on the basis of three characteristics. Both films stem from the tradition of film noir. While there is debate over the use of the term as a genre category, it is widely agreed to refer to a specific period of cinema between 1940 and the late 1950s from which these two films draw stylistic inspiration. One way in which this influence is evident is in Chinatown and Blade Runner’s use of cityscape. Both films are set in LA, a city in which the majority of traditional film noirs are also set. It is my argument that in their portrayal of LA, Chinatown and Blade Runner present a highly Orientalised cityscape in which Oriental motifs function as signifiers of urban decay. Such a means of representation is not unique to these films but rather stems from traditional film noir.
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Song, Xiaofan. "Linger: Chinese Culture Center." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/85002.
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How to better integrate urban texture, architecture, and culture organically, and use the architecture as a carrier to transmit more humanistic information?
In today's society, people have a variety of ways to explore the culture and understand the culture. However, the most direct experience is a personal experience. As the most important carrier of human activities, architecture cannot be overlooked. From the direct sensory experience and indirect behavioral patterns, architecture is involved in human activities and ways of thinking all the time. Therefore, the combination of culture and architecture organically will give people a better way and angle to understand the culture.
The relationship between local culture and local architecture is inextricably linked. However, how to integrate foreign culture into local architecture will be a very difficult problem. Directly transplanting buildings and cultural elements from a foreign culture to a local city will make the building incompatible with the original urban texture. It is not easy for local residents to accept this foreign culture from the aesthetic perspective or psychological perspective. In my thesis, I hope to design a cultural center that can match the texture of the local city and reflect the foreign culture through my thinking about the architecture and the understanding of the foreign culture: design a Chinese cultural center in Chinatown, Washington DC, to find out a reasonable way for cultural communication.Master of Architecture
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Lo, Elsa, and n/a. "Chinese architectonic code : a semiotic study of shop signs in Sydney's Chinatown." University of Canberra. Communication, 1994. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060818.132847.
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This study aims to furnish a semiotic reading of Sydney's Chinatown by
analysing the environmental meanings codified in that particular context.
The basic unit of analysis is the shop sign. Some features underlying sign
formations in Sydney's Chinatown are identified and the communication
process involved in its organisation of meanings and space is explored.
The thesis is organised into three parts. The first part gives an
introduction to the background of study and examines theories on
architectural semiotics and its relation to visual communication. It consists
of three chapters. Chapter 1 defines the scope of the study and outlines the
objectives and goals of research. Chapter 2 focuses on two related fields of
architectural semiotics, viz. semiotics of objects and semiotics of space.
Evaluation of semiotic approaches and behavioural science approaches to
the study of objects and space is made. Some of the theories discussed are
applied to give a profile of shop signs from a visual semiotic perspective. In
Chapter 3 a description of the methods of research and an outline of the
analytical framework of this study are given.
The two chapters of Part Two provide some background information
on various conceptions of "Chinatown". Chapter 4 discusses the
development features of Chinatowns in North America, which reveal that
there are divergent perceptions of Chinatowns. Chapter 5 describes the
development of Sydney's Chinatown and underlines some of its distinctive
features.
In Part Three the results of the study are presented. Chapter 6 focuses
on the codification of meanings realised in Sydney's Chinatown. Chapter 7
is concerned with elements of sign formations and examines the
communicative functions of shop signs in the Chinatown context. The
analyses made in these chapters are intended to identify some features of
sign formations in Sydney's Chinatown within an architectonic system.
The thesis concludes with a summary of the study and a discussion of
the applicability of architectural semiotic theories. It is suggested that
further study can be pursued in the direction that contributes to an
understanding of architectonic systems and social communication.
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Li, Phoebe Hairong. "A Virtual Chinatown: the diasporic mediasphere of Chinese migrants in New Zealand." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/5561.
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This is a study of the social dynamics of the current Chinese migrant community in New Zealand through a critical analysis of the Auckland-based Chinese-language media. It combines two research fields, international migration studies and media studies, to conceptualise Chinese-language media as a specific type of alternative media in contemporary New Zealand. The Chinese population in New Zealand has rapidly increased through immigration since the passage of the 1987 Immigration Act; Chinese now comprise 3.4% of the New Zealand population, and a wide variety of Chinese-language media have accordingly thrived in New Zealand. In contrast to New Zealand mainstream media, these Chinese media serve the specific needs and interests of newly arrived and only minimally acculturated Chinese migrants. The research was conducted in three phases: quantitative and qualitative data were acquired from the content of Chinese-language media during the period of the 2005 New Zealand general election; qualitative data were obtained from focus groups and interviews with members of the Chinese audience subsequent to the election; qualitative data were generated from Chinese media personnel. The findings suggest that these Chinese-language media closely reflect and depict recent PRC Chinese migrants’ perceptions of New Zealand and aspirations towards their new life in the host country. Within the global context of the Chinese diaspora in historical and contemporary times, this research also introduces a new angle for exploring the socio-economic impacts of China as a rising superpower on New Zealand and the Pacific Rim.
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Sia, Rosanne Amosovs. "Making and defending intimate spaces : white waitresses policed in Vancouver's Chinatown cafes." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27781.
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In mid-1930s Vancouver, city authorities launched a campaign to ban white waitresses from Chinatown cafes. Canadian historians have overlooked this campaign because of the tendency to treat the Chinese in Canada as a separate history from working women and to focus on discourse analysis rather than experience. This obscures the importance of sexuality and cross-racial interaction to the lives of both Chinese “bachelors” and white working women in Canada. This paper shows how white waitresses, Chinese restaurant owners, and Chinese patrons created and defended a social space of cross-racial intimacies in Vancouver’s Chinatown cafes.
By examining a variety of sources, including mainstream and labour newspapers, mayor’s and police records, oral histories, and Chinese-language newspapers, this paper considers the perspectives of the four groups involved in the campaign. City authorities constructed the cafes as immoral spaces, where white waitresses were enticed into prostitution by Chinese men. In the name of protecting white womanhood, they drew a gendered and racial line around Chinatown. Despite policies of racial and gender equality, labour organizations also viewed the campaign through this lens of morality.
For the white waitresses and Chinese customers, on the other hand, these cafes opened up a social space to explore cross-racial intimacies. In the cafes, they flirted, formed friendships, and began sexual relationships. The Chinese “treated” the waitresses to dinner, gifts, or money in exchange for sexual intimacy. Some of these intimacies were purely functional, while others developed into relationships that fulfilled mutual interests, needs, and desires. Through these intimate practices, they created choices and opportunities not available outside of Chinatown.
The ban forced the Chinese, and especially the white waitresses, to become self-reflective about their experience in the cafes. The Chinese condemned the ban as racial discrimination. Fifteen white waitresses marched on city hall, where they defended their rights as workers, their respectability, and their Chinese employers. The waitresses articulated why the Chinatown cafes held value in their lives and in Vancouver. They had lost their jobs and their reputations, but they took a political stand.
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Mehta, Aditi Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Overdue, returned, and missing: the changing stories of Boston's Chinatown Branch Library." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59760.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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In 1896, the Boston Public Library (BPL) opened a reading room on Tyler Street in between the South End and Chinatown. Since then, the library has disappeared and reappeared in various forms in Chinatown for different reasons. In 1956, the City of Boston demolished the Tyler Street Branch Library and since 2000, community groups in Chinatown have been advocating for their own branch of the BPL. This thesis explores why the Chinatown community does not have a library in 2010 and why the movement to reclaim one has gained momentum in the past ten years. The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate that the public library is a diagnostic window into society; the building, its operations, and the services it provides reflect the social, economic, and political contexts of time and place. This research demonstrates that the story of Boston's Chinatown Branch Library is more than just a historical account of a building or concept; it is actually a story about the development of a neighborhood, the preservation of culture and identity, as well as the growth of coalitions and divisions. At first, the addition or removal of the library in Chinatown was largely an extension of city policy, and eventually the presence of a library in the neighborhood became an extension of grassroots community movements. The history of the Chinatown Library mirrors the changing attitudes towards community development in the United States. While reflecting on this chronology, this thesis aims to answer the following questions: What does the library mean to the Chinatown community? What do these meanings tell about the needs of this neighborhood? And, what is the role of a branch library in fulfilling these needs in the contemporary context? The Chinatown Library means different things to its various providers and users. Through archival research and interviews with city officials, library administrators, community members, and other stakeholders, this thesis theorizes that Boston's Chinatown Library has six meanings: 1) Assimilation Processing Center; 2) Gathering Place; 3) Economic Training Ground; 4) Ethnic Identity Assertion; 5) Turf Defense; and 6) Political Clout Building. This research analyzes the decision-making processes of the BPL in 2010 and discusses how and why stakeholders should incorporate library meanings into these processes. Lastly, this thesis provides recommendations and insights for moving forward to all the major players of the Chinatown Library movement.
by Aditi Mehta.
M.C.P.
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Tan, Bryant. "New housing in old Chinatown : barriers and incentives to affordable housing development." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44346.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-112).
In the 1970s and 80s, the rapid development of San Francisco's Financial District encroached upon Chinatown's intimately-scaled neighborhood. Developers took whole city blocks that housed low-income immigrants to build the glass and steel office towers that define the city's current skyline. In response, the Chinatown community organized to downzone the neighborhood, which effectively froze the neighborhood from any further development. Today, the continual influx of immigrants who are dependent on Chinatown's services demand greater affordable housing in the neighborhood. As affordable housing becomes scarcer citywide and as Chinatown's building stock ages, neighborhood leaders want to know how to meet the high need for well-maintained affordable housing within the neighborhood. This thesis will examine the barriers that prevent affordable housing development in San Francisco's Chinatown. While affordable housing is a citywide issue not limited to Chinatown, the city's efforts have been targeted at redevelopment of outlying and industrial parts of the city rather than within existing neighborhoods. Special neighborhood zoning, cultural values of residents and property owners, intra-community politics, and its particular history make the development a highly contested issue. I will argue that the neighborhood's zoning (including bulk limits and inclusionary requirements) has been too restrictive to develop viable affordable housing in Chinatown and will propose rezoning as one mechanism for affordable housing development.
(cont) I will further illustrate the impacts of zoning changes in height and density on the neighborhood's urban form. The thesis will also provide insight into incentives and partnerships with public and financial institutions that can motivate long-time property owners to rehabilitate or redevelop their properties. My conclusions and proposals will be informed by key informant interviews with current property owners, residents, community organizers, and city officials in Chinatown and San Francisco. My hope is that by examining Chinatown as a case study and developing regulatory and economic strategies to encourage affordable housing development, it will also serve as a resource for other low-income built-out urban neighborhoods.
by Bryant Tan.
M.C.P.
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Kuo, Hsuyuan. "Architecture symbiosis--a study of cultural synthesis : urban design proposal for Boston Chinatown." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39081.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1997.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-60).
The present thesis will focus on the role of culture in architecture and urbanism. The new environment should represent the identity of its inhabitants and the coherence of existing urban context. Architecture and urban setting will play the role of mediator in order to achieve the cultural synthesis of the built environment. Boston Chinatown is the fourth largest Chinese neighborhood in the United States. This unique community represents part of Boston's rich and culturally and ethnically diverse neighborhoods. For most of the Asian community in the greater Boston area, Boston Chinatown serves as the prominent center of economic, social and cultural activity. Situated in the center of Boston, many proposals have been made the revitalization of Boston Chinatown. However, these previous proposals only responded to the physical problems and focused on partial development guideline, neglecting the importance of cultural issues as well as the relationship between Chinatown and the rest of the city. Three issues are of primary importance in the design process of this thesis: 1) investigation and analysis of the existing urban context in a city scale to study Chinatown in its strategic location within Boston, 2) utilization of the Chinese urban design principles as a tool to define the identity for Chinatown's habitants, 3) the synthesis between Chinese design principles and western urban context.
by Hsuyuan Kuo.
M.S.
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Soon, Su-Chuin. "First generation Chinese migrants and their association with the development of Liverpool's Chinatown." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2012. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/12533/.
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My research aims to provide an in-depth understanding of first generation Chinese migrants and their changing connection to Liverpool’s Chinatown. Liverpool’s Chinatown is used as an angle from which I study the Chinese community, a holistic appreciation of the evolution of Liverpool’s Chinatown is first warranted. There are therefore two components to my research. For the historical portion, research driven by archival sources from the 1700s to date was conducted. For the contemporary portion of the research, 68 in-depth qualitative interviews with first generation Chinese migrants across the socio-economic spectrum were undertaken. In the historical part of my thesis, I will show that the construction and re-constructions of Liverpool’s Chinatown is a product of white political domination and context-specific economic factors underlie the power assertions. In the contemporary part of my thesis, I will show that Liverpool’s Chinatown, as characterised by Chinese associations and Chinese cuisine, will persist but not flourish. Liverpool’s Chinatown is currently associated with a Chinese community that is fragmented within itself and segregated from mainstream society. This fragmentation and segregation are accentuated by technological advancements in our contemporary world. In studying the developmental pathways of Chinatowns, scholars have argued that they will eventually die out (Lee, 1949) or become theme parks manipulated by hegemonic social groups (Laguerre, 2000; Lai, 2009). These conclusions are drawn without considering the agency of first generation Chinese migrants. With a focus on first generation Chinese migrants and especially on the ordinary Chinese for the contemporary part of my thesis, the primary aim of my research on the Chinese community will supplement studies on ethnic minorities in Britain as Chinese is a relatively less studied group compared to South Asian and Black populations in Britain. As a secondary objective, my research will also plug a gap in the academic discourse on Chinatowns.
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Kuo, Yi. "Chinatown Square and the Convention Center, Chicago, Il. : a balanced design approach between outdoor spaces and indoor spaces in public buildings, a scheme for a convention center in Chinatown, Chicago, Il." Virtual Press, 1992. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/845982.
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This creative project for the Master of Architecture degree focuses on the building design and landscape design of a urban development, in particular on the mixed cultural basis of deteriorating inner city neighborhoods in the U.S. A.I have lived in America for over two years. During this time, I acquired substantial knowledge on environments and architecture from traveling and studying. Then, I found the characteristics of a mixed culture in this country. We all know that the Chinese people are an important group in America, and they work hard to establish and contribute to the American culture, economy, and environment, now and forever. Although Chinese Americans do not comprise a large portion of the U.S. population, the Chinese patterns of architecture have had some impact on American culture as a whole. However, Chinatown has become a major element in the fabric of many cities in the U.S.A., like Chicago, San Francisco, New York and Washington D.C. For this reason, I chose to explore the design of a new environment for Chinese immigrants in the U.S.A.The topics of this thesis work are the design of the convention center and the planning of Chinatown Square Project. I tried to apply concepts from the Chinese culture, my experience, and professional education in Taiwan, the Republic of China and America. Therefore, the site plan of Chinatown Square Project was designed according to the Chinese Courtyard System. The tower shape of the hotel of the convention center is the transition of the Pagoda. Moreover, the idea of the curved roof comes from the Chinese bowl and tile. Finally, I merged a western feel, and an eastern spirit in the whole design process.I dedicate this thesis to the community of Chinatown in Chicago and America.Department of Architecture
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Anderson, Kay. ""East" as "West" : place, state and the institutionalization of myth in Vancouver's Chinatown, 1880-1980." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26950.
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Over the century 1880-1980, settlers of Chinese origin in Vancouver, British Columbia have been perceived primarily through the nexus of a racial category that defines them as pre-eminently "Chinese" or "Oriental." Similarly, their place in the urban landscape, "Chinatown," has in one sense been a product of host-society categories and institutional practices that have acted to single Chinatown out, and to render it continuously a place apart.
The point of departure for this thesis is the view that "race" is not an objectively given biological trait, but an idea, defined by the significance people attach to it. It is an idiom around which have been erected epistemological distinctions of insider and outsider, "we" and "they." In view of the problematic nature of race, it is argued that one of the tasks of the social science of race relations is to uncover the socio-historical process by which racial categories are themselves constructed and institutionalized over time and in certain contexts. In developing this argument, the thesis demonstrates the role played by place and the state in the continuous making of a racial category, the "Chinese."
The significance of place is identified for its role as the historically evolving nexus through which the racial category is structured. It is argued that "Chinatown" - like race - is an idea, a representation that belongs to the white European cultural tradition and the intention of the thesis is to trace the career of its social definition over the course of a century. In so doing, the claim is made that Chinatown reveals as much of the "West" as it does of the "East."
Ideas of place and identity would not be so enduring or effective, however, but for the fact that they have been repeatedly inscribed in the practices of those with the power of definition. It is argued that the three levels of the Canadian state, as the legislative arms of a hegemonic "white" European historical bloc, have granted legitimacy to, and reproduced the race definition process through their national, provincial and neighbourhood practices. This process continues through the long period when "Chinatown" was reviled as a public nuisance, promoted as a "Little Corner of the Far East," reconstructed as a "slum" and finally under the aegis of multiculturalism, courted in the 1970s by the Canadian state precisely for its perceived "Chineseness." Underlying these changing definitions of Chinatown, it is argued, is a deeper racial frame of reference that has been continuously re-created through discriminatory and more subtle ways as part of the exercise of white European cultural domination.
Lying behind the career of the racial category, therefore, is the history of the relationship between place, racial discourse, power and institutional practice in a British settler society. The study is undertaken with a view to uncovering those relationships and by way of a contribution to the recent rediscovery of place in human geography.Arts, Faculty of
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Lui, Debora A. (Debora Ann-Ling). "Neon signs, underground tunnels and Chinese American identity : the many dimension of visual Chinatown." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/43198.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, 2008."June 2008."
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What is Chinatown? Is it an imaginary construct, a real location, or a community? Is it an ethnic enclave only available to insiders, or a fabricated environment designed specifically for tourists? This thesis attempts to reconcile the multiple ways in which Chinatowns in the U.S. are conceived, understood, and used by both insiders and outsiders of the community. By using Henri Lefebvre's triad of spatial analysis (as detailed in The Production of Space), I create an analytical narrative through which to understand the layered dimensions of Chinatown through the realms of perceived, conceived and lived space. In the first chapter, I closely analyze the visual landscape of an actual location, Tyler Street in Boston's Chinatown, in order to decipher the spatial (and therefore economic and cultural) practices that shape the environment. In chapter 2, I discuss the representations of Chinatown, or the space as it has been conceived by media makers including photographers, writers and filmmakers. By looking at these through the lens of tourism, I create a framework for analyzing the many cinematic depictions of the neighborhood. In the last chapter, I return to the actual spaces of lived Chinatowns, in particular San Francisco's Chinatown as captured in the independent film Chan is Missing (1981), and Boston's Chinatown, as exemplified by three Chinese restaurants in the area. I use Erving Goffman's idea of everyday performance in order to dissect the ways in which people and spaces perform "Chinese-ness" for outsiders of the community. By focusing all three chapters on the material, tangible artifacts of the physical environment, or what I call 'Visual Chinatown,' I hope to create a unified vision of how spaces are created in popular culture.
by Debora A. Lui.
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Lou, Sabrina. "Paradise girls : contemporary realistic young adult fiction /." Access resource online, 2009. http://scholar.simmons.edu/handle/10090/12593.
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Lou, Jia. "Situating linguistic landscape in time and space a multidimensional study of the discursive construction of Washington, DC Chinatown /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (ProQuest) Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/453505837/viewonline.
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Francois, Bertrand. "Repositioning ethnicity : the transformation of Vancouver's Chinatown into a site for tourism, leisure and consumption." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5154.
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This thesis examines the repositioning of Chinatown into a site for tourism,
leisure and consumption. It seeks to identify the actors and processes driving the
transformation with the ultimate goal to determine the optimal conditions under which
expressions of culture can be transformed into a vehicle for socio-economic development
to the advantage of both immigrants and the city at large.
I argue that the district’s current shape and form can be attributed to a changing
configuration of actors and processes. At the centre of it all are Chinatown merchants,
who took the first steps towards retrofitting Chinatown for popular consumption over
seven decades ago. Seven decades later, the latter still actively shape the district. Also
included are City of Vancouver planners, who have drastically altered their stance
towards regulating Chinatown during the last four decades or so. Whereas the latter
initially focused on preserving and enhancing the district’s landscape, more recent
interventions have involved local stakeholders and have had the goal to build a complete
community. I conclude that such a holistic approach is more likely to result in
development to the benefit of all actors involved.
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He, Mengqi Moon. "The Chinatown stories : investigating water (in)justice through transmedia urban design in the L.A. River." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129042.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, September, 2020Cataloged from student-submitted PDF of thesis. Page 130 blank.
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Presenting a case study of the L.A. River, this thesis analyzes the L.A. River revitalization master plans from 1996 and the subsequent efforts by public and private entities to create "an equitable, natural river." It demonstrates that the current urban design framework neglects to take a finegrained approach to distinctive river stretches and communities, lacks clear water justice objectives, and fails to adequately represent local stakeholders, and thus lacks the ability to actualize their vision. This thesis argues that the discipline and practice of urban design can use transmedia storytelling as a tool for power- and knowledge-sharing between urban designers and community members to achieve water justice objectives in the L.A. River. The thesis proposes a transmedia urban design method that incorporates transmedia stories and transmedia community engagement to inform the development of a just urban design.
By applying the proposed method with the Chinatown community and its stretch of the L.A. River, this thesis aims to unravel water injustice in the area. Since the 1930s, Chinatown in Los Angeles has long suffered from hegemonic representation, serving a nostalgic and archaic Orientalist imagination to the West. The misrepresentation of Chinatown has led the river revitalization and urban renewal processes to neglect the community, thus resulting in water injustice. As an alternative, this thesis proposes a counter urban design scheme for the Chinatown community and its river stretch. The transmedia urban design method and design alternatives aim to achieve four water justice objectives: procedural, distributive, corrective, and imaginative. It selects four sites in Chinatown for urban design intervention based a process of site analysis. Then it engages with local transmedia storytellers to generate preliminary programs for those sites. Lastly, it proposes a Chinatown-L.A.
River Master Plan and urban design alternatives for the four sites to address the water injustice revealed in the previous two steps. Corresponding to the four objectives, the transmedia engagement process fosters local community participation and representation (procedural justice), the Master Plan improves the access to the river (distributive justice), the urban design alternatives enhance the community's multi-racial experience next to and with nearby river communities (corrective justice), and the transmedia urban design method proves to create imaginery and voice to a new theme of water justice (imaginative justice).
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Chang, Benjamin Johnson. "The platform liberatory teaching, community organizing, and sustainability in the inner-city community of Los Angeles Chinatown /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=2023856761&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Khoo, Evelyn. "Under the arch of friendship culture, urban redevelopment and symbolic architecture in D.C. Chinatown, 1970s-1990s /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/9377.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of History. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Furlund, Eivind B. "Singapore, from third to first world country : The effect of development in Little India and Chinatown." Thesis, Trondheim : Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Department of Geography, 2008. http://ntnu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:124648/FULLTEXT01.
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Tan, Guangyu. "The (Re)production of Social Capital in the Post-Chinatown Era: A Case Study of the Role of a Chinese Language School." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1239900533.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Jan. 12, 2010). Advisor: Tricia Niesz. Keywords: Social capital; ethnic community; ethnic identity. Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-244).
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Romolacci, Justine. "Dynamiques urbaines et économiques des Chinois originaires de Wenzhou en Europe : le cas des communautés de Prato et de Marseille." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020AIXM0041.
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Les Chinois originaires de Wenzhou forment une diaspora entrepreneuriale très active. Les entrepreneurs wenzhou en Europe ont prospéré dans un secteur jusqu’alors inédit au sein de la diaspora chinoise : la vente en gros de produits importés de Chine. Grâce à leurs entreprises familiales, qui fournissent une main-d’œuvre bon marché et à l’établissement d’un réseau commercial, dont le noyau se situe en Chine, les commerçants wenzhou sont devenus particulièrement compétitifs et ont réussi à avoir le monopole dans ce secteur. Cette thèse est une étude ethno-économique comparative des dynamiques urbaines et économiques des Wenzhou de Marseille et de Prato (Italie). L’objectif de ce travail est, d’une part, d’appréhender l’établissement de la communauté wenzhou en milieu urbain avec, d’un côté, à Marseille, un groupe relativement peu nombreux dont l’installation est récente et dont l’impact économique à l’échelle de la ville reste modeste et, d’un autre côté, à Prato, une communauté numériquement conséquente dont la présence dans la ville est très importante et qui détient économiquement un réel pouvoir. L’implantation dans le tissu urbain des Chinois de Wenzhou n’a pas vocation à constituer un lieu touristique comme certains Chinatowns en Europe, et en Amérique du Nord, en particulier, mais elle est articulée autour de leur activité commerciale. D’autre part, il s’agira de montrer que le développement et la réussite économique de ces communautés sont essentiellement fondés sur un réseau économique transnational et international allant de l’approvisionnement à la distribution de produits importés de ChineThe Chinese from Wenzhou are, especially in France and Italy, a very active entrepreneurial diaspora. With China’s economic development and its entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001, Wenzhou entrepreneurs in Europe prospered in a business segment previously unheard of in the Chinese diaspora: wholesale of products imported from China. Thanks to their family businesses, which provide a cheap labor force and the establishment of a transnational and international trade network, whose core is located in China, entrepreneurs from Wenzhou have become very competitive and have managed to have the monopoly in this sector.This thesis is a comparative socio-economic study of the urban and economic dynamics of the Chinese from Wenzhou in Marseille and Prato (Italy). The main purpose of this research work is, on the one hand, to apprehend the establishment of the Wenzhou community in urban areas with, on one side in Marseilles, a relatively small group whose installation is recent and whose economic impact in the city remains modest, and Prato, on the other hand, with a numerically important community with a large presence in the city and a real economic power. The settlement in the urban area of the Chinese of Wenzhou is not intended to constitute a tourist attraction like some Chinatowns in Europe, and especially in North America, but is articulated around their economic activity. In addition, it will be necessary to show that the development and the economic success of these communities are essentially based on a transnational and international economic network going from the supply to the distribution of products imported from China
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Thalheim, Sabina M. "A Hundred Million Messages: Reflections on Representation in Rodgers andHammerstein’s Flower Drum Song." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366291157.
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Maher, Sean William. "Noir and the urban imaginary." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/42216/1/Sean_Maher_Thesis.pdf.
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Noir and the Urban Imaginary is creative practice based PhD research comprising critical analysis (40%) exegesis (10%) and a twenty-six minute film, The Brisbane Line (50%). The research investigates intersection of four elements; the city, the cinema, history and postmodernity. The thesis discusses relationships between each of the four elements and what cinematic representation of cities reveals about modern and postmodern urban experience and historicisation. Key concepts in the research include, 'urbanism', 'historiography', 'modernity', 'postmodernity', 'neo-noir'.
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Jiang, Yanqiao. "Multiculturalism, Tourism and Culturally Sensitive Design in Chinatowns." Thesis, Griffith University, 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/420964.
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The aim of this project is to expand on the limited understanding of Chinese multiculturalism outside of China and to inject balance and authenticity into the representation of Chinese cultural diversity. Through my research and the redesigning and rethinking of Chinatowns, I aim to convey the multicultural nature of China to Western audiences. I will examine the process of
cultural “imitation” used in modern Chinatowns and the widespread misunderstanding of Chinese ethnicities.
In this research I have developed new design features and visual elements for the Chinatown at Southport in Australia. The products and symbolism depart from the stereotypical designs usually found in Chinatowns and reflect the diversity of Chinese ethnic groups. My research project includes a literature review and I have also undertaken fieldwork, including conducting several questionnaires with ethnic groups. Through my design practice, I am developing innovative ways to represent China in a way that embodies the essential and diverse features of Chinese folk culture.Thesis (Professional Doctorate)
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Lee, Amy. "Translocal readings : Hong Kong television serials in US Chinatowns /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B3643145X.
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Lee, Amy, and 李凱華. "Translocal readings: Hong Kong television serials in US Chinatowns." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B37339436.
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Pottie-Sherman, Yolande. "Vancouver’s night markets : intercultural encounters in urban and suburban Chinatowns." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45053.
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This study compares two Chinese-themed night markets in Vancouver, Canada. The Chinatown Night Market is held in the City’s downtown historic Chinatown, while the Summer Night Market is held in the suburb of Richmond. Night markets are iconic elements in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and have a specific sensorial design created by tightly packed crowds, loud music, dim sum, and vendors selling pop culture goods.
The central question of this research concerns the role of the everyday for intercultural understanding and engagement. As such, it places the night markets at the centre of three inter-related debates in the literature: the role of space in everyday encounters with difference; the interplay of structure and agency in the construction and representation of Chinatown; and the role of marketplaces specifically in fostering meaningful intercultural exchange in plural societies. This thesis compares Vancouverites’ experiences with difference in the two marketplaces, drawing on 88 interviews with consumers and vendors, ten in-depth key informant interviews (with market administrators and city officials), and hours of participant observation over the course of two years.
The overarching contribution of this research is to demonstrate that the night markets, as everyday spaces, foster intercultural interaction and engagement. These everyday encounters with difference, however, do not occur in a vacuum. This research makes three inter-related arguments. First, the night market phenomenon in Metro Vancouver is a project in re-writing both the City landscape and the suburban landscape in a way that challenges imposed notions of “Chineseness” by city governments and multicultural planning discourses. As such, these cases reveal the struggle between structure and agency in the representation of Chinatown. Second, the different trajectories of the two marketplaces reveal a shift in the scale of diversity management planning discourses, from mosaic to micro-scale. Third, the night markets both reveal and contribute to the social normalization of ethno-cultural diversity in Metro Vancouver’s public realm.
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Gual, Bergas Joan Miquel. "De la picota a la piqueta: el Raval com a paisatge d'excepció a la imatge de no ficció entre La bomba del Liceu (1893) i Ciutat Morta (2015)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/392134.
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La idea del Raval com un paisatge d’excepció té una provinença triple. En primer lloc, el Raval (o Barri Xino) pot ser pensat com una geografia de les diferències radicals: degut a la seva composició social resulta pertinent la reflexió sobre la norma i l’excepció, sobre els conflictes i tensions derivats de la governamentalitat envers les i els subalterns. En segon lloc, la història del barri resulta indissociable de la història de la presó i resulta un bon cas de estudi per constatar allò que Deleuze definí com el pas de la societat de la disciplina a la societat del control. Finalment, es pot parlar de paisatge d’excepció degut a que es tracta del territori barceloní més representat a la imatge de no ficció en el marc temporal establert aquí.The idea of Raval neighbourhood as a landscape of exception comes from a triple origin. First, Raval (or Chinatown) can be thought as a geography of radical differences. In this territory it is pertinent the reflection about the meanings of normative citizenship and exceptional or deviated citizenship, that is to say about conflicts and tensions caused by governmentality of the subaltern. Second, Raval’s history cannot be unlinked of Barcelona’s prison history. By this reason, it’s a good case study to check Deleuze theory about the transition from old disciplinary society to contemporary control society. Third, it’s possible to talk about landscape of exception due to the fact that Raval is the Barcelona’s neighbourhood mostly represented in non-fiction images during the period stablished in this research.
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Torres-Barreto, Jose Antonio. "dis.PLAY - Center for the Art of Moving Images. A Film Center for Washington, D.C." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31337.
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This thesis explores how a displayed image and architecture interact together. This manifesto is analogically explored using parts of the human body such as the eyeballs as a structural analysis for the buildings with a projection of the cornea, the pupil, the retina, the optic nerves and the brain. This analysis follows a sequential order of capturing light, transcribing light into image, and displaying such image onto a screen. Both, the image and architecture are created parallel to each other respectively when conceiving an architectural idea in order to develop the idea into a building and then perceiving the architecture from such building.
These steps are a cinematic approach using a video camera to record an experience of movement through the journey of a metro ride. This video is one of the tools used to edit an urban tissue of downtown Washington, D.C. The project becomes a Center for the Art of Moving Images exposing vectors of movements through its architecture. The building is manifested in a three-dimensional design where the site provides a sunken plaza 60 ft below street level perceived as a new floor in the city. The underground metro station transitions to the street surface through the use of this plaza in a very harmonious way. The result is a visual depth parallel to the perspectives perceived in movies where you see beyond the surface of the screen and in this case, beyond the surface of the city.Master of Architecture
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Murray, Kate M. "Seriality and invitation : knowing and struggle in Vancouver Chinatown's Historic Area Height Review." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/63226.
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In this project, I explore the 2011 Historic Area Height Review (HAHR) public hearings in light of questions of knowing-in-struggle. At issue in the hearings, were proposals to increase building heights in Vancouver’s Chinatown neighbourhood. As a participant, I perceived that this site of public debate also reflected broader tensions that recur within discursive dynamics of social struggle, especially in relation to meanings of development.
Here, I develop an activist approach to thinking through such encounters. Participants on all sides of the HAHR debate conveyed Chinatown as a neighbourhood in crisis. However, when it came to interpreting neighbourhood changes and questions of how to save Chinatown, speakers expressed divergent understandings and even contradicting realities. My inquiry treats these disjunctures as entry points for a series of analytical movements towards the material, social, existential and historical dynamics through which these clashing public knowledges have emerged and are sustained. To do so, I especially draw on the Marxist-existentialist work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Paula Allman’s elaboration of Freire’s dialogical pedagogy, Dorothy Smith’s institutional ethnography and David Harvey’s work.
Through this exploration, I find that divergent reports of neighbourhood change make sense when explored as accounts of complex, speculative capitalist urban development. My analysis further underscores disjunctures wherein institutional texts and policies ostensibly represent but largely misrepresent and overwrite residents’ lived experiences of (un)affordability. I trace an existential dimension of hearing debate which evokes the reversal of subject and object and relations of hostile dehumanization apparent in Sartre’s theorization of seriality. My historicized reading of discourses of Chinatown as distinct, as Chinese and as neglected potential highlights their historical instrumentality within a recurring conceptual-material dialectic of colonization-marginalization and resistance. I reconsider HAHR process to explore how, given mounting development pressure and a narrow planning focus on “height,” the social welfare concerns—and the involvement—of low-income residents were gradually rendered external to the HAHR decision. My analysis thus suggests how relations of colonization-marginalization and resistance are ongoing in the context of the HAHR, and makes a contribution towards elucidating the terrain upon which local practices of justice-oriented pedagogy, organizing and “invitation” must be pursued.Arts, Faculty of
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Wu, Fung-ying Connie, and 鄔鳳英. "Adjustment difficulties of some elderly immigrants from mainland Chinato life in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1990. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31248810.
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Liu, Yue [Verfasser], and Reinhard [Akademischer Betreuer] Krüger. "Die Chinatowns in Paris und in London des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts : Analyse und Vergleich repräsentativer Beispiele in Europa / Yue Liu ; Betreuer: Reinhard Krüger." Stuttgart : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Stuttgart, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1196624275/34.
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Picquart, Pierre. "Les chinois à Paris : l'affaire des sans-papiers chinois : interviews d'asiatiques dans les chinatowns parisiennes : intégration et insertion de la communauté chinoise en France." Paris 8, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA081762.
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L'objectif de cette these sur les chinois a paris tend a apporter une meilleure comprehension sur l'integration de la communaute chinoise a paris et sur l'affaire des sans-papiers chinois. Avant de deliberer sur les effets de l'immigration en france, il est necessaire de s'interesser a l'originalite du developpement de l'immigration de la communaute chinoise a paris, en tenant compte de l'affairedes sans-papiers chinois. Dans un contexte mediatise et dans un pays ou les debats sur l'islam et l'immigration restent vifs, le mouvement des sans-papiers chinois a destabilise les secretes communautes chinoises de paris. Le consensus de l'integration en douceur des chinatowns est brise. A la lumiere de l'actualite, la these propose 3 trajectoires ; 1. La premiere raconte le mouvement des sans-papiers chinois et libere huit recits authentiques de chinois et six interviews de responsables locaux dans les chinatowns ; 2. La seconde retrace le parcours historique de la communaute chinoise dans paris et en france : les strategies de conquete, les reussites economiques, les aspects socioculturels et son "developpement separe" vis-a-vis de la societe francaise ; 3. La troisieme prend sa sourcedans l'histoire de la diaspora et l'appel geopolitique des mers du sud de la chine. En conclusion, il ressort notamment un clivage entre les jeunes generations et les plus anciennes ; les jeunes chinois et les nouveaux venus souhaitent une integration republicaine, alors que les chinois traditionalistes, en contact avec la diaspora mondiale, cherchent a maintenir leurs interets et le secret, dansdes communautes en "developpement separe". Les opinions recueillies restent contradictoires, mais le mur du silence legendaire s'est fendille avec la revolte des sans-papiers chinois. Ces derniers ont celebre a leur facon la commemoration du cinquantieme anniversaire des droits de l'homme.
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Yang, Joshua Shu. "A model to increase access to care for immigrants charting the development of San Francisco Chinatown's ethnic-specific health care system /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=954084541&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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振兴, 朱., and Zhenxing Zhu. "Chinese American activism in the Cold War-Civil Rights Movement Era,1949-1972." Thesis, https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB13069274/?lang=0, 2018. https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB13069274/?lang=0.
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本研究は、冷戦期と黒人公民権運動期という二重の文脈が交差するなかで、中国系アメリカ人の運動に作用した多様なダイナミズムを歴史的に解明することであった。これにより、従来のような「同化」と「モデル・マイノリティ」の視点から語られがちであった中国系アメリカ人という歴史観とは異なる視座から、当時の中国系アメリカ人の歴史を捉えることを試みた。さらに、チャイナタウン内で発行されていた中国語新聞と中国共産党の資料の分析により、中国共産主義が中国系の左派活動家を通して、いかにアメリカ合衆国の黒人公民権運動に影響を与えたかとのことも検証した。This dissertation provides an overview of Chinese American activism during the Cold War-Civil Rights Movement period. At the same time, it re-examines the history of Chinese Americans from the perspective of Chinese American activism. By employing a transnational approach to Chinese American activism and carefully analyzing various primary resources, this project attempts to clarify the dynamic process through which Chinese American activist movements changed from engaging in spheres of transnational Chinese struggles to fighting for justice and the interests of their own community in the United States, and finally to becoming an integral part of the Asian American Movement.
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Doctor of Philosophy in American Studies
同志社大学
Doshisha University