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Re: Role Models who lift up the Chinatown community 02/19/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]
[abc7news.com]
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Lily Lo founded BeChinatown to uplift the community, support businesses, and help local immigrants navigate their transition to life in the U.S.
BeChinatown aims to revitalize San Francisco's Chinatown and ensure its sustainability for future generations. The nonprofit is a collaborative effort involving community leaders, residents, merchants, property owners, and San Francisco natives, all working together with a shared vision. Their mission is to showcase the beauty of Chinatown, attracting visitors from across the country and around the world
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Lily Lo founded BeChinatown to uplift the community, support businesses, and help local immigrants navigate their transition to life in the U.S.
BeChinatown aims to revitalize San Francisco's Chinatown and ensure its sustainability for future generations. The nonprofit is a collaborative effort involving community leaders, residents, merchants, property owners, and San Francisco natives, all working together with a shared vision. Their mission is to showcase the beauty of Chinatown, attracting visitors from across the country and around the world
Re: The rise and fall of Chinatown: The hidden history of displacement you were never told 02/19/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]
Historically, displacement started with arson.
[www.latimes.com]
Two fires were reported within 15 minutes and a block of each other in Los Angeles’s Chinatown neighborhood Wednesday morning where authorities said they were investigating reports of a person walking around with a gas can.
[theconversation.com]
In 1923, the Bell Telephone Company purchased additional real estate along the corridor for its new high-rise building and parking lot, displacing Chinese residents. In the same decade, the city used eminent domain to demolish blocks of housing to make way for the Broad-Ridge Spur connecting the Eighth Street and Vine Street subway stations. A Philadelphia Evening Bulletin article in 1934 declared Chinatown to be “a thing of the past.”
As the city began to accommodate more car owners, Race Street was remade as a major thoroughfare to the Delaware Valley Bridge, now called the Ben Franklin Bridge. In 1926, the year the bridge was completed, the Bulletin declared that “The Delaware River Bridge has come and Chinatown must go,” echoing the xenophobic slogans that drove Chinese workers out of western states half a century earlier.
[www.latimes.com]
Two fires were reported within 15 minutes and a block of each other in Los Angeles’s Chinatown neighborhood Wednesday morning where authorities said they were investigating reports of a person walking around with a gas can.
[theconversation.com]
In 1923, the Bell Telephone Company purchased additional real estate along the corridor for its new high-rise building and parking lot, displacing Chinese residents. In the same decade, the city used eminent domain to demolish blocks of housing to make way for the Broad-Ridge Spur connecting the Eighth Street and Vine Street subway stations. A Philadelphia Evening Bulletin article in 1934 declared Chinatown to be “a thing of the past.”
As the city began to accommodate more car owners, Race Street was remade as a major thoroughfare to the Delaware Valley Bridge, now called the Ben Franklin Bridge. In 1926, the year the bridge was completed, the Bulletin declared that “The Delaware River Bridge has come and Chinatown must go,” echoing the xenophobic slogans that drove Chinese workers out of western states half a century earlier.
YEAHS - 三種賤人 02/18/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]
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Re: What it Meant to Be Cantonese in China and America, 1850–1900 02/18/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]
"Hui" (similar to Keiretsu) is probably the role model for modern micro-credit lending because Chinese-Americans were denied access to Western Banking services to start businesses that threatened the status quo.
[www.internationalaffairs.org.au]
Likewise, the author profoundly misunderstands southern Chinese hui, or rotating credit associations, casting these as a response to exclusion by European and American bankers, rather than a long-standing financial instrument that Chinese migrants had brought with them from their homeland. Both errors point to the author’s limited concern with Chinatown or the Chinese community of Hawai‘i on their own terms. Rather, the master force in the book is that of “whiteness”—a phenomenon whose hegemony in Hawai‘i is asserted ad nauseam.
For most of the book, Chinese actors and voices are strangely absent, as are any serious discussion of debates within the Chinese community.
[www.internationalaffairs.org.au]
Likewise, the author profoundly misunderstands southern Chinese hui, or rotating credit associations, casting these as a response to exclusion by European and American bankers, rather than a long-standing financial instrument that Chinese migrants had brought with them from their homeland. Both errors point to the author’s limited concern with Chinatown or the Chinese community of Hawai‘i on their own terms. Rather, the master force in the book is that of “whiteness”—a phenomenon whose hegemony in Hawai‘i is asserted ad nauseam.
For most of the book, Chinese actors and voices are strangely absent, as are any serious discussion of debates within the Chinese community.
Re: Chinatowns Ain't Nothing But Ghettos 02/17/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]
[hoodline.com]
One of the critical topics highlighted during the food festival was the Chinatown redevelopment project, currently in its second phase. "Chinatown has evolved, has grown in the past 30 years and has been contributing so many economic impact to Clark County," Yan discussed in a statement obtained by KTNV.
[www.ktvu.com]
"We have restaurant owners, small mom and pops. People actually come to Oakland Chinatown," Chen said. "We’re a hub for people all over the Bay Area. Oakland Chinatown is a living, breathing community."
[www.straitstimes.com]
Mr Thian, 70, told The Straits Times: “Chinatown holds a special place in my heart as I grew up and opened my first stall there. Chinatown is a must-visit destination for tourists. I also hope to cater to locals, including office workers around there.”
One of the critical topics highlighted during the food festival was the Chinatown redevelopment project, currently in its second phase. "Chinatown has evolved, has grown in the past 30 years and has been contributing so many economic impact to Clark County," Yan discussed in a statement obtained by KTNV.
[www.ktvu.com]
"We have restaurant owners, small mom and pops. People actually come to Oakland Chinatown," Chen said. "We’re a hub for people all over the Bay Area. Oakland Chinatown is a living, breathing community."
[www.straitstimes.com]
Mr Thian, 70, told The Straits Times: “Chinatown holds a special place in my heart as I grew up and opened my first stall there. Chinatown is a must-visit destination for tourists. I also hope to cater to locals, including office workers around there.”
Re: There Are 80 SROs in San Francisco's Chinatown?!?!?!
02/17/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]SROs could be a solution to solve Los Angeles' homeless problem. Hollywood like the Titanic is a sinking ship of broken dreams for screen writers, actors, make-up artists, set designers, etc. Everyone connected to Hollywood may eventually end up in an SRO because Hollywood is dead. If you had moved to LA to be part of Hollywood, then was the sacrifice worth it?
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Re: Chefs On The Forefront of Modernising Cantonese Cuisine 02/17/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]
[www.broadsheet.com.au]
This is reflected in one of Ong’s favourite desserts: deep-fried toffee ice-cream served with fresh cream and char siu caramel sauce. “We add the roasting juices from our char siu into caramel to make a complex salted caramel. It’s pretty wild,” he says. Forget miso caramel or salted caramel, the juices from the pork give the sauce a rounder, richer flavour – it’s ice-cream and caramel sauce, only more so.
This is reflected in one of Ong’s favourite desserts: deep-fried toffee ice-cream served with fresh cream and char siu caramel sauce. “We add the roasting juices from our char siu into caramel to make a complex salted caramel. It’s pretty wild,” he says. Forget miso caramel or salted caramel, the juices from the pork give the sauce a rounder, richer flavour – it’s ice-cream and caramel sauce, only more so.
Re: 9 Countries to Avoid If You Are Running Away From The CCP 02/16/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]
[www.bbc.com]
When China started putting bounties on dissidents' heads in 2023, they targeted prominent protest leaders and opposition politicians. Chloe, still finishing her A-levels at the time, thought was she too small-fry to ever be a target.
Her inclusion underlines Beijing's determination to pursue activists overseas.
The bounty puts a target on her back and encourages third parties to report on her actions in the UK, she says.
China has been the leading country over the past decade trying to silence exiled dissidents around the world, according to a report this week.
When China started putting bounties on dissidents' heads in 2023, they targeted prominent protest leaders and opposition politicians. Chloe, still finishing her A-levels at the time, thought was she too small-fry to ever be a target.
Her inclusion underlines Beijing's determination to pursue activists overseas.
The bounty puts a target on her back and encourages third parties to report on her actions in the UK, she says.
China has been the leading country over the past decade trying to silence exiled dissidents around the world, according to a report this week.
Re: Everything You Need To Know About Attending The San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade 02/16/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]
[abc7news.com]
PHOTOS: 2025 San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade
PHOTOS: 2025 San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade
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“We have a total of 21 floats, we have fireworks, and we have our 289-foot dragon,” said Lau. “It’s going to be a long parade for sure and it’s going to be exciting. We’re going to have 500 drones flying at Pier 32 to create a couple images that represent the Year of the Snake, our community and how we work together.”
The drone show will be a first for the parade. The effort is a result of over three months of collaboration with vendors to ensure that the Year of the Snake will be rung in with pomp and circumstance.Quote
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[abc7news.com]
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The countdown is on for this year's San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade set to take place in just days on Saturday, February 15. This year's grand marshal, legendary actress and producer Joan Chen is embracing the role with enthusiasm and a deep connection to the city's Chinatown.
Chen first visited San Francisco in the 1980s to shoot a movie and fell in love with the city. She later made it her home in 1992.
