Boston Chinatown Banquet - Hudson Street Stories

The Central Artery displaced hundreds of Hudson Street residents during a time Chinatown was growing and expanding, when a new generation of Asian Americans was growing up in the area and the neighborhood was still a mixture of Syrian-Lebanese and Chinese. This piece features first-person recollections of displacement, the process of relocation and its impact on Chinatown.

Storytellers: George and Lois Hadaya, Florence Soo Hoo, Richard Soo Hoo, Tunney Lee, Yanni Tsipis, Reggie Wong

Video footage: Mike Blockstein, David Hartman, Kim Szeto

Interviews: Mike Blockstein, Jackson Hau, Eun-Joung Lee, Kim Szeto, Kathy Tran

Images courtesy of: The Bostonian Society, Chinese Historical Society of New England, State Transportation Library of Massachusetts, Tufts University Archives, Reggie Wong, Remembering Hudson St. by Mabel Lee Tom, courtesy of Chinese Historical Society of New England

Producer: Mike Blockstein

Editor: David Lawrence

A Chinatown Banquet is a series of short educational films about Boston Chinatown, sparking learning and dialogue across generations, disciplines and geography. The Banquet offers an unprecedented glimpse into the history, culture, and character of the neighborhood. This multimedia project highlights the Asian American experience and Chinese culture in Boston and was created as an educational tool by youth in the Asian Community Development Corporation (ACDC or AsianCDC) Young Leaders Network (YLN) which has grown to become A-VOYCE (Asian Voices of Organized Youth for Community Empowerment). These "courses," offering a rich view of the forces that shaped and continue to influence Chinatown, consist of audio and video interviews with community members and others who offer insight into specific issues, interspersed with contemporary and historic footage, images and information, music and ambient sounds. As a part of the Chinatown Heritage Project, the Banquet is a compendium of Chinatown's history, political struggles, culture and physical environment and living conditions.

http://www.chinatownbanquet.org/index2.html
http://www.asiancdc.org/heritage/home.html
http://www.asiancdc.org/

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Boston
• Chinatown
• Asian
• American
• Chinese
• Culture
• Education
• Community
• Development
• Corporation
• ACDC