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The Chinese in Silicon Valley examines the complex and ever-growing role of Chinese American scientists and engineers in Silicon Valley. Globalization brings workers from many different countries and cultures together, impacting more than just their work environments. The Chinese who settle in Silicon Valley must learn to prosper despite changes in cultural identity, family life, and often citizenship. They learn how to utilize new social networks and make sense of a shifting ethnic identity. This informative book presents important new knowledge on the connection between Chinese ethnicity and
High technology industries --- Chinese --- Chinese Americans --- Ethnology --- Industries --- History. --- Social conditions.
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The phenomenon of “Chinatown” has been of great interest to the general public as well as scholars. Movies and story books have made Chinatown to be exotic, mysterious, gangster filled, and sometimes, a gilded ghetto, an ethnopolis, a cultural diaspora as well as a model community. The authors of Chinatowns around the World seek to expose the social reality of Chinatowns with empirical data. The authors also examine the changing nature and functions of Chinatowns around the world while scrutinizing how factors emanating from larger societies and other external factors have shaped Chinatown development and transformation. The activities of the recent Chinese transnational migrants are also critically appraised.
Chinatowns. --- Chinese --- Immigrants --- Community life --- Ethnology --- Chinese diaspora --- Ethnic neighborhoods --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Social life and customs. --- Social conditions. --- Migrations. --- Chinatowns --- S11/1100 --- Migrations --- Social conditions --- Social life and customs --- China: Social sciences--Immigration and emigration, Overseas Chinese (huaqiao)
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