Bakal Bangun Kawasan Little Chinatown di Samarinda, Ini Kata Wali Kota Andi Harun

DIKSI.CO, SAMARINDA – Pemkot Samarinda tengah berupaya untuk meningkatkan daya tarik pariwisata dan memperkuat sektor ekonomi lokal. Salah satu langkah progresif yang diambil adalah pembangunan kawasan Little Chinatown yang diharapkan akan menjadi magnet baru bagi wisatawan dan pusat pertumbuhan ekonomi baru di Kota Tepian. Disampaikan Wali Kota Samarinda, Andi Harun, pembangunan Little Chinatown…

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Big Fight in Little Chinatown (dir. Karen Cho) x DOXA 2023.

There’s much to [the] careful exploration of Chinatowns across the continent. Its reverence for the stewardship of these neighbourhoods is admirable while the documentary delves into the ever-growing gentrification faced. Cho ably sums up the history of Chinese people as compelling stories of struggle and survival.

Screened at the 2023 Hot Docs Festival in Toronto.

Screening at the Rio Theatre on June 10 and VIFF Centre from June 16–20.

꧁★꧂

ponytail dazai my everything, ,,,

I loved every bit of NYC this past weekend. It just keeps getting better ♥️🗽

was anyone gonna tell me its chinese new year

princess peach icons

National treasure James Hong as the evil David Lo Pan in Big Trouble in Little China (1986).

Lived my absolute best life in New York this past week 🥲 it was truly everything I dreamed it would be. I can’t wait to move.

LA

Went to see an old school friend at a Dutch pub in London which is in Chinatown for some reason like some kind of weird treaty port.

"One significant theme of the 2023 list is how multicultural communities that grew in parallel with a specific place now face cultural erasure—the gradual disappearance of community landmarks that help tell the story of those who’ve called a place home, along with the loss of treasured local businesses, restaurants, customs, and traditions.

By rallying around the places that symbolize their history and stories, many neighborhoods and communities are leading the charge to protect what makes them special in the face of overdevelopment, displacement, and gentrification."

While you were sleeping au! You mentioned the subway and I think? The F line, a while ago. I’m curious which subway stops are the most important to the story. Also which NYC neighborhooods do you think matches the vibes of the various mdzs characters in this au/in general. Also if there’s anything you want to share I’d love to read it!

Hi honey thank you for asking! Yes we did decide on the F line, good memory haha

I've put a lot of thought into the route and setting of this story. I needed the setting to do a lot in terms of character (wealth, community, cultural background) and in terms of plot (need both my main characters to regularly take the same train a long distance), but luckily I think that neighborhoods and subways are equipped to do all of that!

I settled on both Wen Qing and Jiang Cheng regularly commuting in from Queens, but for different reasons. JC is coming from queens because his family has owned a large townhouse there for multiple generations, while Wen Qing, a more recent and more broke arrival to the city, lives out there because the rent is cheaper. Queens has its own massive chinatown, but it's more recent (comprised of a a newer wave of mandarin-speaking immigrants entering an older hokken-speaking population) compared to the historic Manhattan Chinatown (hundreds of years old, overwhelmingly cantonese-speaking). I have placed a lot of my action in the Manhattan chinatown, partly because it's historic and partly because it's most familiar to me. Both JC and WQ commute to the East Broadway stop on the F line, WQ to go to work at a nearby hospital and JC to go to his job (the Jiang family own a restaurant).

Here is an excerpt of a scene from the subway! thank you for being interested <3 <3 <3

The train shudders to a stop and they part to let people stand and push past them. He nods at the seat that’s appeared between them. “You should take it.”

“It’s fine.”

“Please. I know you’re about to be on your feet all day. Just take it, before some ass with no appreciation for essential workers steals it from you.”

“I can’t. I’m afraid if I sit I won’t get up again.” It’s the truth, but she didn’t mean to say it. There’s no reason to worry him about her. She’s stood on the train a thousand times, she can stand one more.

“I’ll get you up if you need it. Promise.” He nudges her forward gently. It’s just the drag of his knuckles against the small of her back, but she sways into the touch before she can stop herself. Hastily Wen Qing overcorrects the other way, and drops into the seat as quickly as she can.

At the next stop even more people crowd on, pushing him forward. He scowls and braces himself with one hand on the bar above them, back stiff and unyielding. She recognizes the stance from years of navigating the subway at rush hour—don’t take up more space than is your due, but don’t give an inch or the crowd will take a mile.

The train takes off with the familiar rocking of the crowd, as people lurch forward and back, renegotiating space and balancing against each other. It sends him stumbling right up against the seats, his leg knocking into hers for a moment before he catches himself.

“Sorry.”

“It’s okay.”

He looks at her carefully, like he’s searching for any sign she didn’t mean it. He steps closer, letting the people behind him expand into the extra space in the way that crowds are always so liquid. She shifts to let him even closer, his leg settling between hers, his knee braced against the hard plastic edge of the seat. Whenever either of them shift it sends the expensive wool of his suit dragging across the machine-starched stiffness of her fresh scrubs.

She’s in a strange sort of sleep daze, like maybe she hasn’t really woken up at all yet. Soon she’ll open her eyes to her cold bed, her dark room, her relentless alarms. But for now she’s warm. She’s still too tired and the train is too crowded, but sitting down she exists in a little bubble, with Jiang Cheng’s broad back curved over her and his arm above them.

Trying my absolute hardest to make the bat kids as not American as possible at all times might genuinely become my main mission with this blog

used bookstores my beloved 🥰

books from top to bottom:

wake, siren by nina maclaughlin

interior chinatown by charles yu

johnny appleseed by joshua whitehead

a safe girl to love by casey plett

for thy great pain have mercy on my little pain by victoria mackenzie