{"id":399,"date":"2024-07-15T15:28:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T19:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storyboothmedia.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2024-07-17T12:00:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T16:00:24","slug":"montreal-filmmaker-documents-race-to-save-vanishing-north-american-chinatowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/storyboothmedia.com\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Montreal filmmaker documents race to save vanishing North American Chinatowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>MONTREAL &#8211; Chinatowns across North America don\u2019t just share a similar look \u2014 they also face similar existential threats and David-versus-Goliath-like battles for survival. Whether it\u2019s residents of New York City\u2019s Chinatown protesting a proposed mega jail in their community, or Montreal\u2019s Chinese diaspora fighting to save heritage buildings or struggling to keep family restaurants alive during COVID-19, these common threads are a recurring motif of Karen Cho\u2019s documentary \u201cBig Fight in Little Chinatown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cho, a fifth-generation Chinese Canadian with roots in the Chinatowns of Montreal and Vancouver, documents how these urban pockets of Chinese culture across North America are facing similar pressures from gentrification. In an interview, Cho said the neighbourhoods are prime targets for redevelopment due to their age and proximity to downtown, but also to what she calls \u201cthe intersection of racism and urban planning.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/montreal-filmmaker-documents-race-to-save-vanishing-north-american-chinatowns\/article_1b32b721-90ef-531d-afd3-19ba0c004f58.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">READ FULL ARTICLE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL &#8211; Chinatowns across North America don\u2019t just share a similar look \u2014 they also face similar existential threats and David-versus-Goliath-like battles for survival.<a href=\"http:\/\/storyboothmedia.com\/?p=399\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-long-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/storyboothmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/storyboothmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/storyboothmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/storyboothmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/storyboothmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/storyboothmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"http:\/\/storyboothmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/storyboothmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/storyboothmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/storyboothmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/storyboothmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}