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Re: A Glimpse of San Diego Chinatown 05/28/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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Our celebration and exploration of AAPI Heritage Month takes us to San Diego’s Chinese community, which has a long history tracing back to the 1850s.

In fact, San Diego once had a thriving Chinatown that was eight blocks long. That area is now known as the Asian Pacific Thematic Historic District, which is located in downtown San Diego and overlaps with the Gaslamp Quarter.

Re: The rise and fall of Chinatown: The hidden history of displacement you were never told 05/28/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

[nextpittsburgh.com]

Despite a hostile outside world, Chinatown became a haven, a place where people spoke Cantonese, celebrated Lunar New Year and held onto cultural traditions, according to archives at the Heinz History Center. But beginning in the 1920s, the construction of the Boulevard of the Allies cut through the heart of the neighborhood.

Later infrastructure projects and urban renewal in the 1950s further demolished businesses, displaced residents and scattered the community. What wasn’t lost to the highway was eventually swallowed by government buildings. Today, almost nothing remains.

Except for one restaurant: Chinatown Inn.

Re: What it Meant to Be Cantonese in China and America, 1850–1900 05/28/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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Forum from the Archives: The New Yorker’s Michael Luo on ‘the Epic Story of the Chinese in America'

In 1889, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the now infamous Chinese Exclusion Act, which prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country. Writing for the majority, Justice Stephen J. Field characterized Chinese migrants as “strangers in the land.” New Yorker editor Michael Luo says that label persists today, even as more than 22 million people of Asian descent now reside in the U.S. In a new book, Luo tells the stories of 19th and 20th century Chinese migrants and analyzes the long tail of contemporary anti-Asian racism and violence while championing those who fought against it. His new history book is “Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.” We listen back.

Re: A Glimpse of The TianAnMen Square Massacre 05/27/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

This would be a different story had the ruling been appealed in China.

[www.voanews.com]

The ruling is a rare victory for Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement in which scores of activists have been jailed or forced into exile, with many liberal and popular civil society groups shuttered.

"A deer cannot become a horse just because someone believes it to be," she added.

Jenny Tseng - 愛情騙子 05/24/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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Re: A Glimpse of Los Angeles Chinatown 05/24/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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The 1871 Chinatown Massacre in Los Angeles left a scar on a community that has since flourished and persevered through racism and violence.

The Novelty of Chinatown in Novels 05/24/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

[bookriot.com]

Historical Fiction Set in America’s Varied Chinatowns

Re: Chinatowns Ain't Nothing But Ghettos 05/24/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

[www.sfexaminer.com]

“Everywhere I went, there was this sense of home,” Young, who now lives in New York, told The Examiner in a recent phone call. “When I think back on it, I see that Chinatown was small-town America.”

Re: A Glimpse of Victoria Chinatown 05/24/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

[www.capitaldaily.ca]

Victoria’s Chinatown isn’t just a local treasure: it’s the oldest Chinatown in Canada and the second oldest in North America, after San Francisco. With deep historical roots, it has long been a centre for Chinese culture, trade, and community life on Vancouver Island. Today, it remains a vital part of the city’s cultural landscape. It’s home to the oldest Chinese temple in Canada, which won second place in a Canadawide heritage competition last month.

Re: A Glimpse of New York City Chinatown 05/23/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

[abc7ny.com]

There was a time when you couldn't walk the streets of Chinatown without worrying if the wrong look would lead to gunshots when gangs ran the neighborhood.

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