Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Imagining Chinatown
  • Claiming space, creating Chinatown, 1870-1940
  • "Chinatown was the safe space": community, memory, and place, 1940-1980
  • "We want homes not highways": urban renewal and the "save Chinatown" movement
  • "Be part of progress, not its sacrificial lamb": community-development strategies 1970-2000
  • "A legacy of resistance": Chinatown north and twenty-first century challenges
  • "We are the ones who should be telling the story": representing Chinatown
  • Epilogue: "Is, was and will be Chinatown."