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Feb 20, 2021 · Chinatown, as we know it today, wasn’t properly established until the early 1970s. But new research from the China Exchange shows Chinese businesses had operated in Soho from the early 1900s.
Apr 30, 2020 · Why was this message relevant in the real world in 1974? And why is it still relevant today? The answer is that in many ways Chinatown isn’t fictional at all. The film’s narrative parallels the real-life story of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.
By the late 1960s, Chinatown was truly established as the heart of London’s Chinese community – now numbering in the tens of thousands as more and more Chinese workers arrived from the British territory of Hong Kong.
Jun 20, 2024 · Chinatown, the troubling and sublime epicentre of 1974 at the movies, is the flaw in Evelyn Mulwray’s iris. Chinatown: or how a real 1974 and a fictional 1937 created a timeless, troubling LA legend.
May 26, 2022 · In the 1950s and ’60s, the Canadian and American governments unleashed city planning campaigns to wipe Chinatowns off the map. A popular tool they used was the freeway.
Explore the streets of 1970s and 1980s New York Chinatown captured in Emile Bocian’s photographs and view how they look today.
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A number became entrepreneurs, hence all those new takeaways (during the 1970s they opened at a rate of three a week). But that trade also made the Chinese British one of the most dispersed ethnic groups in the country—it made sense to set up shop far away from the competition.
