《唐人街》是社会学家吴景超先生于一九二八年在美国芝加哥大学社会人类学系作的博士论文。吴先生在这篇论文中从社会功能学、社会区位学和文化人类学角度,对由西方工业化扩张、中国民族经济解组引起的向海外移民的大潮进行了系统的考察。他主要以美国为样本,对中国移民的动力、移民渠道、中国移民与 “Chinatown” is a sociologist Mr. Wu Jingchao in 1928 at the University of Chicago Department of Social Anthropology doctoral dissertation. In this paper, from the perspectives of social function, social status and cultural anthropology, Mr. Wu conducts a systematic investigation into the tide of overseas immigrants caused by the expansion of Western industrialization and the solution of China’s national economy. He mainly takes the United States as a sample, the motive force for Chinese immigrants, immigration channels, and Chinese immigrants