Backed-up or Bound： Youths in US Chinatowns in Ethnic Literature and in Reality

Targeting the youth group of the American Chinatowns, this paper attempts to explore the continuous interactions of the people and the community on each other. As a result of combined impact of the immigration history of Chinese Americans and the unfolding political and economical reality, a complicated relationship has developed between the growing Chinese immigrants and the Chinatown where they happen to inhabit and influence. Literature and history have captured the interesting development in their specific perspectives and paradigms, between whom the comparison is creatively presented. The great process of modern urbanization of American cities since the 1950s is given serious highlight in shaping the small community as well as the large one. The authors invite further argument on whether the youths are cushioned or bound by the traditional physical and cultural environment, or they bring change to the community in return at the end of the paper. It is suggested that they mature into a beautiful compromise and pride on creating the immigrant legacy characteristic of the great country.

基于文本,探索小学高年级英语读写教学策略——以I went to Chinatown in New York yesterday.为例

一节高效的读写课,应建立在教师读懂文本、尊重编者意图的基础上,帮助学生感知、理解文本内涵;应捕捉学生的兴趣点,'依生定教',促进学生语言的生长,提升思维品质;应着眼于对教学内容、话题功能、文本主线的精准把握,通过语言的建构、巩固、发展,知识的内化、整合、综合运用,促进学生心智发展,凸显育人价值。本文以外研社新标准英语(一年级起始)六年级(上) Module2Unit1 I went to Chinatown in New York yesterday.为例,探索有效的小学高年级英语读写教学策略。

Chinatown's Community Organizations Reflected in Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea

Louis Chu's novel Eat a Bowl of Tea(1961) is widely recognized as a pioneer masterpiece in Chinese American litera-ture. It pictures the bachelor society of Chinatown in New York City after the Second World War. Several characteristics of China-town's community organizations are reflected in this novel: kinship-based; responsible for protecting and caring for the members;led by commercial elites; rule of man, rather than rule of law. It offers us a precious chance to take a glimpse of the Chinese-Ameri-can society in post-World War II era.

Building a Chinatown From Scratch

Hu Xiaomeng,one of Cameroon’s longtime Chinese entrepreneurs,reflects on 15 years in the Central African nation ON Ahmadou Ahidjo Street in Douala,the economic capital of Cameroon,there are several buildings bearing Chinese names like Da Shanghai(Great Shanghai) and Zhong Ka Youyilou (Sino-Cameroon Friendship Building). This is Cameroon’s Chinatown. Here,passersby flock to the Great China

Tung Pok Chin： A Paper Son Poet in New York

Classical-style poetry is a neglected genre in the study of Chinese American literature. Except for the Angel Island Poetry and the Songs of Gold Mountain （Jinshan geji 金山歌集）, no substantial research has been done on the enormous amount of classical-style poems published in San Francisco and New York. This article attempts to explore this uncharted territory by examining the poetry of Tung Pok Chin 陈松柏 （1916-88, aka Lai Bing Chan 黎屏尘） and his story as a Chinese immigrant. Chin moved to the United States in 1934 as a paper son. He joined the American navy during World War II and eventually established his own laundry business in Brooklyn. Since the late 1940s, Chin published a significant amount of his classical-style poetry in the China Daily News （Meizhou huaqiao ribao 美洲华侨日报）, a left-wing newspaper operated by the pro-communist Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance. With the help of his daughter, he also wrote a memoir in English narrating his assimilation into American society. His poetry, though not particularly refined, similarly records his experiences and comments regarding American life and politics. Based on the source materials found in the Tung Pok Chin Papers archived in New York University, his memoir, and the poems he published in the China Daily News, herein I illuminate how Chin adopted a traditional form of poetry as his expressive vehicle and, with the narrative power of his English memoir, how he used his poems to construct a social identity. The article also relates Chin＇s work to the broader context of Asian American studies, as well as the classical poetry community and its development in New York, and ponders his significances in the history of Chinese American literature.

DESTINATION CHINATOWN

Korea’s only Chinatown gets the theme park treatment曾经上万华人聚居,如今却乡音难觅,跨越三个世纪的仁川中华街究竟经历了多少变迁?A Chinese traveler’s review of Chinatown in Incheon,South Korea,on travel website Mafengwo reads,“In Chinatown,you will see a lot of locals and[non-Chinese]foreigners.”It’s terse,but accurate.“Before there was a Chinatown,this was the special area where Chinese people lived.”This was the logicdefying explanation that Gok Myeonshin,owner of a Chinese

An Afternoon in Chinatown

May 1997 Dear Xiao Lan: The high red Chinese Gate attracts our gaze: Chinese voices fill the air. Lunchtime has drawn us to Chinatown here in Philadelphia. We inhale the fra grance of dozens of enticing restaurants. Some offer dim sum lunches with green tea, plum wine, or Tsing Tao beer. Others lure us with tauks where fish swim until they are steamed for hungry Philadelphians. There are Japanese, Korean,