NEW: San Francisco's Chinese New Year Parade is this Saturday and there's a brand new dragon for the parade finale, celebrating the Year of the Dragon. For over a century, this parade has served as a means of civic engagement for Chinatown to combat stereotypes and to tell the Chinese-American story.
At #chinatown#singapore
Images of Samsui women in the background, these were Chinese female immigrants who came to Singapore in search of construction jobs between the 1920s and 1940s.
Tucked away in Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown is Kwai Chai Hong meaning “Little Demon Alley” which is home to six murals depicting everyday life in 1960s Chinatown.
From my last visit, here are ‘Erhu’ (a traditional Chinese string instrument with only two strings), “Kids playing with imaginary friends”, “Prostitute” and part of “Life in the Sixties” (which is a two and a half story mural) #Chinatown#KualaLumpur#Malaysia#Mural#StreetArt#Graffiti#MastoArt#streetphotography#travelphotography
NEW: Chinatown's older adults are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Community groups say current systems are insufficient in keeping residents safe and more funding is required to catch up.
There are around 193,800 residents in San Francisco who are 60 or older. From 2010 to 2060, the city expects to see a 159% surge in its 60-plus population, according to the California Department of Aging.
“Climate change definitely affects our seniors’ quality of life as well as their health,” said Anni Chung, president and chief executive officer of Self-Help for the Elderly.
#Oldest#Chinese restaurant in #UnitedStates is in #Butte#Montana. The one-time mining boom town is atop the Continental Divide about 200 miles south of the Canadian border. ..about as far from a traditional #Chinatown as you can get. Established in 1911 by Tam Kwong Yee and his business partner, Hum Yow -- both 1st-generation #ChineseAmericans -- #PekinNoodleParlor occupies a nondescript brick building on the only remaining block of what was once a bustling Chinatown.
if you gotta have a 45-minute walk to jury duty on a cold morning, it’s nice when the day is clear and the colours beautiful. (The red dock cranes against the sunlit mountains = our Golden Gate Bridge.) #chinatown#vancouver
Lunar New Year Celebration in Seattle’s Chinatown was really buzzing today!
-mural at Uncle Bob’s Place: collab btwn mult artists to express culture & collective action
-lots of folks
-lion dance wishing prosperity, happiness, & longevity
-Master David Leong demonstrates kung fu #Seattle#LunarNewYearCelebration#Chinatown#CID#pnw
The last of the #Salinas#Chinatown elders and storytellers, Wellington Lee, has passed away. Old enough to have been around when John Steinbeck was writing East of Eden. Somehow, Steinbeck's fictional vision of the neighborhood is what the public tends to remember. But it barely cracked the surface of what #Chinatown was. Bon Voyage, Wellington. . .