Boston Chinatown Banquet -Landfill, Immigrations, Traditions

Integral to comprehending Boston Chinatown is knowing why it is located where it is. Location has made Chinatown he only ethnically defined community in downtown Boston and dictated many of the current struggles over land use. Growing out of a project by three A Chinatown Banquet students, this video examines the geographic, labor and transportation factors that brought the early Chinatown settlers to the area.

Storytellers: Stephanie Fan, Alex Krieger, Arthur Krim

Video Footage: Mike Blockstein, David Hartman

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

Images courtesy of: Boston Public Library, The Bostonian Society, 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