Essays on Chinatown

Roman Polanski’s Chinatown is a neo-noir film that tells a fictional story of characters who found themselves entrenched in the Los Angeles Valley water wars-these wars were actually taking place and plagued the Los Angeles Valley residents for most of the 20th Century. Before, during,…

Ignorance is Bliss “小心 (Be careful)!!”, my parents often said around my brother and me. I spent most of my childhood days around Chinatown and the Boston Chinese Evangelical Church. Right after a Math or English lesson at the church, my parents would take my…