Le pouvoir économique du Chinatown de Londres : d’un espace de l’entre-deux à un produit londonien

First created to nestle immigrants who had left their countries, mostly from Hong Kong and China, London’s Chinatown (near Soho) progressively allowed for the emergence of a transitional space, a medium, or a place in-between which helped those immigrants to adapt to the new habitat. Gradually, the...

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Main Author: Quôc-Dung DANG
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2022-12-01
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/erea/15610
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description First created to nestle immigrants who had left their countries, mostly from Hong Kong and China, London’s Chinatown (near Soho) progressively allowed for the emergence of a transitional space, a medium, or a place in-between which helped those immigrants to adapt to the new habitat. Gradually, the cultural and economic landscape of London’s Chinatown has become an attraction and Chineseness, an object of consumption for both local residents and outsiders. The place branding process of London’s Chinatown has contributed to creating new ways of reading the place, and is not only carried out by the Chinese as some form of self-fashioning, but also by local authorities, networks of associations and mostly Shaftesbury—a British real estate investment trust. Highly marketed as a commodity, London’s Chinatown has been re-imagined and transformed into a hybrid social, economic and political construct that is intrinsic to the West, and more particularly to London.
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spelling doaj.art-5ffa22cc5f5b45d0b6f2485041b1b9e02023-01-04T11:22:29ZengLaboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)E-REA1638-17182022-12-0120110.4000/erea.15610Le pouvoir économique du Chinatown de Londres : d’un espace de l’entre-deux à un produit londonienQuôc-Dung DANGFirst created to nestle immigrants who had left their countries, mostly from Hong Kong and China, London’s Chinatown (near Soho) progressively allowed for the emergence of a transitional space, a medium, or a place in-between which helped those immigrants to adapt to the new habitat. Gradually, the cultural and economic landscape of London’s Chinatown has become an attraction and Chineseness, an object of consumption for both local residents and outsiders. The place branding process of London’s Chinatown has contributed to creating new ways of reading the place, and is not only carried out by the Chinese as some form of self-fashioning, but also by local authorities, networks of associations and mostly Shaftesbury—a British real estate investment trust. Highly marketed as a commodity, London’s Chinatown has been re-imagined and transformed into a hybrid social, economic and political construct that is intrinsic to the West, and more particularly to London.http://journals.openedition.org/erea/15610transitional spaceplace brandingethnic enclaveChinatownethnic economyLondon
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Le pouvoir économique du Chinatown de Londres : d’un espace de l’entre-deux à un produit londonien
E-REA
transitional space
place branding
ethnic enclave
Chinatown
ethnic economy
London
title Le pouvoir économique du Chinatown de Londres : d’un espace de l’entre-deux à un produit londonien
title_full Le pouvoir économique du Chinatown de Londres : d’un espace de l’entre-deux à un produit londonien
title_fullStr Le pouvoir économique du Chinatown de Londres : d’un espace de l’entre-deux à un produit londonien
title_full_unstemmed Le pouvoir économique du Chinatown de Londres : d’un espace de l’entre-deux à un produit londonien
title_short Le pouvoir économique du Chinatown de Londres : d’un espace de l’entre-deux à un produit londonien
title_sort le pouvoir economique du chinatown de londres d un espace de l entre deux a un produit londonien
topic transitional space
place branding
ethnic enclave
Chinatown
ethnic economy
London
url http://journals.openedition.org/erea/15610
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