Click to access chinatown_history.pdf
- a lot of immigration history
- foreign influence, escape to find a safe home, job creation, medical and economic aid, living arrangements, lack of women with Chinese Exclusion 1882-1943
- became sight of gang violence, poor = illegal motives to get by
- tongs
- foreign influence, escape to find a safe home, job creation, medical and economic aid, living arrangements, lack of women with Chinese Exclusion 1882-1943
- in 1965, chinatown was accepted/welcomed/appropriated in manhattan society
- ex: lampposts/lanterns, phone booths/decorations
- Chinese Lunar New Year parade, jewelers, cuisine, street vendors with knock off, tourism
I’m very excited to see/experience:
- the red lanterns like floating in sky from pictures
- closely packet vendors
- the way people talk to each other
- what they are selling
- the attitude/interactions between people who live/work in chinatown ant tourists/visitors
- children running around
- animals?
- noise and smells
- traditional authenticity vs. knock off commercialism/materialism
- art/architecture/style: comparing Chinatown to chelsea, greenwich, downtown, etc.
