New York’s Chinatown is one of the few neighborhoods in Manhattan where parks are still packed with multigenerational, four-season activity, where diverse cultures, cuisines, and traditions are found spilling out of storefronts and community centers, and where immigrants and non-English speakers can find a familiar foothold in a new and different country. Still, over the […]
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Using Technology to Preserve the Culture of a Chinatown Shop
Editor’s Note: This article is part of an oral-history series where Aaron Reiss interviewed the young-adult sons and daughters of Chinatown shopkeepers about how they are helping to keep their families’ businesses alive. Alice Liu, a 24-year-old community advocate, lends a hand at her parents’ small shop, GTW Tea and Water, which sells Chinese cultural […]
The Bohemian Revival of Bangkok's Chinatown
The latest scene in Bangkok is also the oldest. On a dim backstreet of moldy shophouses, an unlikely crew of scruffy Thai youth and bearded artists forms a crowd outside Cho Why, a collective exhibition space being used for a craft beer-tasting contest. Some of the competing breweries are as unlicensed as the galleries that […]