Chinatown

Hi Chi-Huei, Other factors leading to the tension between Chinatown inhabitants and other citizens were the opinions of medical professionals (in which they point to Chinatown as the source of all diseases), difference in living spaces/activities from norms set by middle-class families, and their threat job security of other workers. Building a hospital where "no respectable society" existed would place the responsibility of caring for the "rats" onto the city. Public officials would rather…

Introduction On September 2, 1885, a league of bitter white coal miners and their families took guns and axes to attack the local Chinatown, the immigrant workers living there defenseless as they were celebrating a homeland holiday. An estimated over thirty men killed, many more injured, the five hundred Chinese living there fled from the Union Pacific Railroad, where they worked for far lower wages than their white peers in hopes of gathering enough fortune to provide for their families back…

Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974) offers a newer, fresh take on the typical 1940s film noir. Chinatown preserves so many of the conventions of film noir, while also putting a completely different spin on them. By 1974, movies were no longer following the production code and Chinatown took advantage of the new MPAA rating system by adding more complex, realistic issues and scenes that the previous code would not have allowed. Chinatown has become the poster child for neo-noir films due to…

Reflection on Interior Chinatown Eli Miland Asian Am 240 April 7, 2024. I chose to read the book Interior Chinatown, a novel by Charles Yu published in 2020. This seemed the most interesting to me when I read the initial book options. The book is separated into 7 acts, which is fitting as it is in the unique format of a screenplay about the main character Willis Wu, an Asian American with Taiwanese ancestry. Willis narrates the script in the second person about himself. Throughout the book he…

The symbol of Bobby's old home life and apartment is related to coming of age because it is all different now that he has Feather. Music used to always fill Bobby's house but now that everyone is gone and its just him and his mom no music plays, unless he's with K-boy and J.L. of course. The symbol of the wall is related to coming of age because it shows that he is growing up and his childhood is past memories now. When Bobby starts to lose the wall that he's painting he starts…

and how the movie Chinatown is applied to the Acts including examples from the movie which substantiate each point. The story is about a private investigator who discovers underlying corruption, deceit and the beginning of a romance. The first act begins at the start of the movie and closes after the death of Mr Hollis Mulwray. The second act begins after the following events have occurred in act 1. Act 1 In act one we are introduced to several of the main characters of Chinatown. The main…

disgusted I would “die” if Todd knew because if Todd knew because she knew he wouldn't understand that is part of part of her culture. Anne starts to reconnect with her roots when she is remembering the past time she spent with her grandma in Chinatown. Well in Chinatown and remembers it as a busy place and loud place she says “I couldn't understand why it was so loud”(2). This shows that Anne was being brought closer to her roots and exposed to her culture through her grandmother. She also…

My family and I decided to tour Chinatown on our trip to Chicago. After setting down at the hotel that we were staying for the night, it was time to go to Chinatown. My parents, my youngest brother, David, and I went to Chinatown. My other two brothers didn’t want to come with us, so they stayed back at the hotel. I was pretty angry at them for not spending time with the family, but can’t force them to do what I want them to. The drive to Chinatown was about 20 minutes away from the hotel. The…

Trying to Find Chinatown is a play about two men arguing over identity. The play was written by David Henry Hwang in 1996. Trying to Find Chinatown features numerous themes including: the value of culture, the search for belonging and acceptance, and the negative outcome of having preconceived notions. However, the one theme that stands above the rest is the complicated matter of identity. To first understand the term identity, a few questions must be asked. What is identity? Some argue that…

The cultural plunge project is meant to expose myself to other cultures and their lives. For this specific purpose, I choose to go to Chinatown in downtown Los Angeles. I don’t have friends or acquaintances that are from China or that have Chinese heritage. In all honesty, I only considered Chinese culture in relation to food or restaurants. Apart from its Americanized food, I haven’t before exchanged thoughts and ideas with a person of Chinese descendancy. Therefore, the experience of…