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There are around 950 students enrolled in Cantonese courses for the 2025-26 academic year, and 85 per cent of them are native Mandarin speakers. As a result, Pai has hired three more part-time instructors to teach the Mandarin speakers. Meanwhile, there is only one class of heritage speakers.

“It’s culture that makes me want to learn Cantonese, so I can belong to a group. I feel like I need to learn [Cantonese].”

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Every city I have ever found myself alone in, I have gone directly to its Chinatown. A 12-hour layover in Istanbul, a summer abroad in Paris, a weekend trip to Athens from London, a visit to a friend in Seoul. It’s an impulse I’ve always followed but haven’t questioned too closely. I tell myself I am seeking ease, advice from a familiar face, a cozy bowl of soup that tastes like home.

For a long time I wanted to move to Chinatown myself, to live there even without knowing very much about it. I dreamed of my children learning Chinese in the dual language immersion program of the local elementary. Before moving back to L.A., I had lived in a tenement building in New York’s Chinatown. I miss having claim over a piece of that city that other people found indecipherable. I miss a place that did not make me feel ashamed about my most outlandish yearnings and dreams.

There are many places in this city that real estate developers have found more appetizing. Communities with futuristic dispensaries and start-up athleisure. Thriving shopping malls and long lines around the block for viral beverages. Not here in Chinatown, but perhaps this place is holding out for something better, something more real.

Chinatown is a part of Los Angeles built by immigrants who were chased, moved aside, distrusted — a place with a violent history it has continuously tried to shake. And yet it remains in a state of reinvention, making it an ideal place for dreamers to impose their improbable dreams, to make bets on themselves as artists, as creatives, as immigrants. Even when those dreams don’t quite hold, it continues to allow people to harbor hope for the next evolution. In that sense, Chinatown carries its own poetic legacy, the myth that deserves to endure.

This is one type of ghost marriage.

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What happens when geopolitics meets disco?

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Serving the homeless is another Minnesota-style scam happening in California as it destroys Chinatown as a homeless dumping ground. People are getting rich serving the homeless people using federal tax payer money. Mr. President please send your auditors to California!

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"Inside Safe made a lot of money for this city using underutilized hotels," the person said. "They spent a third of a billion dollars, and most of us are back where we started."

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Prism NYC: History of NYC's Chinatown: The Toishanese Migration

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End Minnesota-esque Sanctuary city programs in California and wasteful government spending scams by socialist Democrats so that legal residents aren't taxed out of the state. Let's end Gavin Newsom bid to run for the White House as he destroys California while profiting from its destruction.

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If Newsom is elected president, then his failed California policies will end the existence of all the remaining Chinatowns around the country due to affordability issues.

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Explore how Hong Kong’s promised freedoms collapsed into surveillance, fear, and enforced patriotism. Protests crushed, media silenced, lives uprooted—this is the chilling story of a world city turned global warning.

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China’s mobile execution vans reveal a chilling system: secretive death penalties, organ harvesting allegations, and medicalized killing. Explore disturbing evidence, testimonies, and unanswered questions surrounding China’s machinery of death inside.