Chinatown

In the Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars the players take control of low ranking triad member Huang Lee as he embarks on a quest of revenge to find those who killed his father and attempted to murder to Huang himself. GTA: Chinatown Wars plays less like the later games in the GTA series and more like the top down GTA games of the past. GTA: Chinatown Wars does have a few features not found in the later games. Chief among these is the supply/demand based drug dealing system where it is possible to…

fiction is typically a story that describes imaginary events. Drama is told through spoken remarks or acting which concentrates on imaginary events or real life activities. The two plays “Trying to Find Chinatown” and “Mistaken Identity” are examples of drama. The play “Trying to Find Chinatown” is about two characters named Ronnie and Benjamin who are both…

In David Henry Hwang’s short play, “Trying to Find Chinatown,” two vastly different, yet similar characters interact on a sidewalk in New York. Benjamin, a white male from Kansas, stumbles upon Ronnie, a Chinese-American male from New York who is a street performer. Benjamin is looking for Chinatown and asks Ronnie for help, sparking a conversation that is anything but dull. Though Ronnie and Benjamin come from two completely different backgrounds, and do not seem to see eye to eye, by the end…

Teenage years are already a time of experiment and rebellion, and unintentionally, family can cause one to pull away from their culture. This is exactly what happened to Lin as she grew older. In the short story, “Everyone Talked Loudly in Chinatown,” by Anne Jew the most apparent theme is that family can cause one to pull away from their culture which eventually leads to guilt. The main character of the story, Lin, is an average teenage girl of the Chinese background. Her family had migrated…

Chinatown by Robert Towne is a neo-noir film following detective J.J. Gittes as he investigates the water crisis in Los Angeles, California. After a set up by an imposter, Gittes meets a woman named Evelyn Mulwray whose husband is in charge of the water company. Mr. Mulwray is found dead which intrigues Gittes and starts thinking that he was murdered. After getting involved in the water crisis and with Mrs. Mulwray, they all end up with Chinatown where anything can happen. The script is set…

and the establishment of the Chicago Public Library in 1872. Now, the Chicago Public Library (CPL) has 80 branches around the city, and the newest one is the Chinatown Branch Library, opened in 2015 and designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in collaboration with Wight & Company and the Public Building Commission of Chicago (PBC). The Chinatown Branch Library was designed to be a reflection of the community where it is insert, a place that express the sympathy for the culture and the surrounding…

It was a cold and foggy evening in San Francisco, California. After a day of boat tours and taking the wrong buses, it was finally dinner time. My family had decided to go to Chinatown for dinner, knowing the food would be cheap and delicious. As we walked into the restaurant, I started to prepare myself with the knowledge that there might be some crazy foods that I probably wouldn’t feel comfortable eating, but I couldn’t concentrate because of the millions of pigeons flying everywhere. My…

For the first time reading Trying to Find Chinatown by David Henry Hwang in 1996 which tells the story of two very contrasting culture perspectives of the Caucasian man Benjamin and the Chinese man Ronnie. The first time reading this, I was a bit taken off how rude Ronnie is at Benjamin and how unnatural the characters talk. As I read further and analyzed it, the brash arguments that Ronnie and Benjamin have are meant to be very exuberant and “in your face” about a culture that is not too often…

depict femme fatale as a woman who is in fact dangerous and manipulative. To further understand the evolution of the character of femme fatale, it is imperative to analyze the character of Evelyn Mulwray from the last true film noir, Roman Polanskis’ Chinatown. Evelyn Mulwray is the ‘femme fatale’ movie and is played by actress Faye Dunaway. The movie was released in 1974, and therefore, present a different time. It was released almost thirty years after the birth of the film noir. The movie is…

In Anne Jew’s short story, “Everyone Talks Loudly in Chinatown,” the protagonist Lin, a Chinese Canadian girl, falls in love with a white boy. However, her parents, who have conventional thought, are dead set against Lin’s decision. Lin goes away and goes for her grandmother who took care of Lin when Lin was a kid, but now is sick. Lin finds her grandmother died. The characters represent two types of gender roles in the short story: The male adult has right to make decision for his family. The…