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1. www.bbc.com › culture › articleChinatown: The real-life California scandal that inspired the ...

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   Jun 21, 2024 · Now 50 years old, Chinatown is one of the all-time great crime films – and that's partly because of a potent story based on the real history of California's so-called...

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2. blogs.wellesley.edu › es39901/2020/04 › 30Why Chinatown (1974) is Still Relevant 50 Years Later

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   Apr 30, 2020 · This is just one historic example of how a few powerful individuals seized power and riches by commandeering California’s water supply. In Chinatown, the names have been changed, and the events have been reworked and rearranged, but the fundamentals remain the same.

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4. www.studiobinder.com › blog › chinatown-movie-analysisChinatown Movie Analysis — The Legacy of a Hollywood Classic

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   Jul 18, 2021 · The Chinatown screenplay is viewed as the Hollywood gold standard; Jack Nicholson’s performance is considered among the all-time best; and Roman Polanski’s direction is irrefutably masterclass. We’re going to break down our Chinatown movie analysis – its legacy, historical context, and influence.

5. people.howstuffworks.com › chinatownsThe Rise, Fall and Future of Chinatowns in the U.S.

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   While the D.C. Chinatown still features some Chinese-owned businesses, there were only 300 Chinese people living there in 2015, down from a high of 3,000 in 1970. And while roughly 14,000 people — about 70 percent Chinese — live in San Francisco's Chinatown, some worry about how the community can retain its culture in the face of ...

6. www.wbur.org › 02 › 07The Complicated History Of The Classic Neo-Noir Film 'Chinatown'

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   Feb 7, 2020 · A new book examines the 1974 film "Chinatown" and the colorful, complicated and compromised Hollywood figures who made the troubling classic.

7. www.nationalgeographic.com › travel › articleWhy does the U.S. have so many Chinatowns? - National Geographic

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   Sep 14, 2020 · A land of opportunity—and gold. Chinatowns have been in the U.S. for more than 170 years. The first one, in San Francisco, served as an unofficial port of entry for Chinese immigrants escaping...

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   Why is Chinatown a great film?

   • In an era of great American films, it is perhaps the film that makes this year stand out from any other, not despite its tawdrier associations but partly because of them, because of the inborn distortions of its lens. Chinatown, the troubling and sublime epicentre of 1974 at the movies, is the flaw in Evelyn Mulwray’s iris.

   The magnificent ’74: Chinatown | Sight and Sound

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   When did Chinatown start?

   • The first formally recognized Chinatown in the U.S. took place in San Francisco, where the first Chinese immigrants arrived in 1848. The area was established in the late 1840s, not long after the first American flag was raised in the city. A Chinese butcher and grocery store in San Francisco, circa 1885.

   The Rise, Fall and Future of Chinatowns in the U.S

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   Why were Chinatowns created?

   • Chinatowns were borne out of necessity due to "racial exclusion" and "self protection," says Min Zhou, director of UCLA's Asia Pacific Center and professor of sociology and Asian American Studies. Overt racism against Chinese immigrants compelled them to seek refuge in dense ethnic enclaves, which became known as "Chinatowns."

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   What makes Chinatown unique?

   • However, the core defining feature of any Chinatown is the business district. "Ethnic businesses define the community," Zhou says. Many of the businesses that immigrants established, such as laundries, cigar production or shoe-making, served both Chinese and white clientele, Zhou says.

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   Why are Chinatowns so important today?

   • During that time, many Chinatowns were destroyed by fire or natural disasters or abandoned by people fleeing the violence. While the earliest Chinatowns comprised modest wooden and brick buildings, the Asian motifs—pagodas, tiled roofs, bamboo-shaped fonts, and dragon imagery—we see today came about as a way to promote tourism.

   Why does the U.S. have so many Chinatowns? - National Geographic

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   How many Chinese people live in Chinatown?

   • Baltimore, Detroit, Los Angeles and Philadelphia are just some of the cities whose Chinatowns have populations of less than 50 percent ethnic Chinese. While the D.C. Chinatown still features some Chinese-owned businesses, there were only 300 Chinese people living there in 2015, down from a high of 3,000 in 1970.

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9. www.bfi.org.uk › features › magnificent-74-chinatownThe magnificent ’74: Chinatown | Sight and Sound

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   Jun 20, 2024 · That’s a relatively benign example of how Chinatown encodes its 1970s zeitgeist into its imaginary 1930s. Far darker are the ways it echoes Tate’s murder and even foreshadows crimes not yet committed.