Saturday, February 13, 2010

chinatown upspotting

with the new chinese year of the tiger pouncing upon a city distracted by shiny-money and nuvo-power, old chinatown buildings are being stripped of their quaint chineseness and cultural significance to be appropriated for elitist galleries of western art pretensions, hip design stores of asian chic, cool-million condos and modernized fusion restaurants that no older chinatown resident would ever step foot into...
but then again, all those old chinese people will soon be pushed out of their venerable comfort zone...

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