New Chinatown

Image

Format

jpg

License

Creative Commons Licence

Contributors

Contributed date

November 25, 2019 - 10:36am

Critical Commentary

This image depicts Central Plaza, the hub of New Chinatown. Constructed in the 1930s with deliberately self-Orientalizing architecture, Central Plaza was owned and operated by Chinese-Americans.

Source

Entrance gate to New Chinatown, Los Angeles. 1939. Herman J. Schultheis Collection/Los Angeles Public Library Collection

Group Audience

Cite as

Anonymous, "New Chinatown", contributed by Raymond Fang, Center for Ethnography, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 25 November 2019, accessed 29 March 2024. http://centerforethnography.org/content/new-chinatown