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Representation of the Chinese American Community in the Novel "Chinatown Beat"

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A 8-10page long(2500-3000 words)analysis of a fiction/non-fiction bookas a case study in urban sociology. Select one from the list of books provided below. Read the book as a case study in urban sociology. Discuss how the city is portrayed in the book,
2what are the hopes and social aspirations of the protagonists, how various social groups are mapped onto the city, how their spatial/social location as well as urban design shape their interactions with other groups. Assess to what extent space and place are discussed and are essential to the story. Identify and develop links to at least three course readings.You can also go beyond the book by developing your analysis along one of its key aspects.

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Henry Chang’s Chinatown Beat is set in New York City, where Jack Yu, a detective of Chinese descent in the NYPD, struggles with being American and Chinese. As Yu tries to find the murderer-rapist, the story focused on different areas of Chinatown. Yu knows the neighborhood but has lived away from the place for long and now comes back. The novel highlights the street-level representation of the Chinese-American community.
 Portrayal
 • Chinatown is portrayed as Chinese enclaves where there are vice quarters, and everybody knows everybody.
 • Traditional Chinese practices such as seeking the services of elderly fortune-telling ladies (Chang, 2006).
 • There are gang boys who victimize and terrorize Chinatown’s residents, but the residents distrust the police.
 • Chang (2016, p. 46) states that on the edge of Chinatown, there were “working-class families entering the Housing Projects.”
 • In Chinatown, the houses are closely clustered as detective Yu remembers jumping across rooftops with his friends and the spaces between buildings (Chang, 2006).
Hopes and social aspirations• The people aspire to be rich and get out of Chinatown Uncle Four a member of the Hip Ching triad is one of the most recognizable and respected members of the community.• There are various competing gangs in Chinatown, which employ young boys and engage in different illegal activities such as prostitution, ga...
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