These days, in an era of shrunken public dollars and booming philanthropy, as universities and museums showcase multimillion-dollar gifts by Chinese-Americans, Ms. Kee worries about a different kind of disconnect: a divide between the explosive growth of Chinese-American wealth and the unmet needs of a new generation of Chinese immigrants who have streamed to the city since the 1990s. (free registration is required)

I think that this trend mirrors a fact of everyday life in China. While Chinese are notoriously unified when facing a non-Chinese situation or individual when dealing “in-house” Chinese society is unbelievably cliquish: aceent v. accent; northerner v. southerner; city v. countryside; working unit v. working unit; family v. family. Naturally then there no need to think that this would change in Chinese communities outside of China.

Class Divide in Chinese-Americans’ Charity