Chinese St Louis: From Enclave To Cultural Community

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Chinese St. Louis offers the first empirical study of a Midwestern Chinese American community from its nineteenth-century origins to the current. As in many cities, Chinese newcomers were soon segregated in an enclave; in St. Louis the enclave was once known as Hop Alley. Huping Ling shows how, through the years, the community grew and dispersed until it was once no longer marked by physical boundaries. She argues that the St. Louis experience departs from the usual models of Chinese settlement in urban areas, that are in accordance with studies of coastal cities. Developing the concept that of a cultural community, Ling shows how Chinese Americans in St. Louis have formed and maintained cultural institutions and organizations for social and political purposes during the city, which serve as the community’s infrastructure. Thus the history of Chinese Americans in St. Louis more closely parallels that of other urban ethnic groups and offers new insight into the range of adaptation and assimilation experience in the USA.

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