Informative Essay: Unravelling The Secrets Of Chinatown

1057 Words3 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Short essay about china culture and history

Unravelling the Secrets of Chinatown

INTRODUCTION (Emily)

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Today we will be presenting to you our learning project. The topic for our investigation is “Unravelling the Secrets of Chinatown”. We hope you enjoy our presentation.

What is Chinatown? (Emily)

According to Wikipedia, a Chinatown is historically any ethnic enclave of Chinese people outside China, Taiwan and Singapore. Areas known as “Chinatown” exist throughout the world, including in America, Europe, Africa, Australasia and Asia.

Melbourne’s Chinatown has been an integral part of the City of Melbourne since the goldrush days of the 1850s. It is a distinctive and iconic precinct in Melbourne, and importantly, the longest continuous Chinese settlement …show more content…

(Emily)

Chinatown is located in the heart of the city and predominantly extends along Little Bourke Street between the bright red Paifang on Swanston Street and the Tianjin Gardens on Spring Street. It includes all the laneways and alleys which link the area to Bourke Street and Lonsdale Street.

You can get there by taking any tram along Swanston Street to Bourke Street and Lonsdale Street or by catching the City Circle Tram to Parliament House on Spring Street and then walking to Little Bourke Street. If you are catching the Melbourne City Tourist Shuttle, you need to alight at stop 4 and walk north for 5 minutes along Swanston Street from Federation Square.

HISTORY

What is the history of Chinatown and its residents? …show more content…

European and American miners armed with weapons marched upon the Chinese area of the diggings to drive them off the goldfields. Defenceless Chinese miners were beaten up and some even had their tents burnt and their supplies stolen. Any gold that was found was also taken. Several Chinese were killed and a majority were injured. This event came to an end when the military intervened. While the Europeans committed terrible crimes, they did not serve great punishments due to mass protests against it. Although these riots happened mainly in New South Wales, there were a few in Ballarat, however, there were not to the same

Show More
Related

  • The Chinatown Trunk Mystery Analysis

    1282 Words  | 3 Pages

    This nation was relatively stable in the eyes of immigrants though under constant political and economic change. Immigration soon became an outlet by which this nation could thrive yet there was difficulty in the task on conformity. Ethnic groups including Mexicans and Chinese were judged by notions of race, cultural adaptations and neighborhood. Mary Lui’s “The Chinatown Trunk Mystery” and Michael Innis-Jimenez’s “Steel Barrio”, provides a basis by which one may trace the importance of a neighborhood in the immigrant experience explaining the way in which neighborhoods were created, how these lines were crossed and notions of race factored into separating these

    Read More

  • Law and Order in Shanghai in 19th and Early 20th Century

    3089 Words  | 7 Pages

    Shanghai's place in history is certainly a grand one. The city endured a century of occupation by over a dozen foreign powers. It was a massive trade center. It was the home of the largest crime syndicate in all of China. It was truly sui generis. One of the most important aspects of its history was that of the imperialist. For most, imperialism represents callous abuse of the native world. For most, this is correct, and Shanghai is no different. However, the role of the imperialist in Shanghai was much broader. Imperialism in Shanghai paved the way for swifter modernization of everything from its street lamps to its police.

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Capitalism In Street Angel

    921 Words  | 2 Pages

    In his 1937 film Street Angel, Yuan explores the inequities facing Shanghai’s urban proletariat, an often-overlooked dimension of Chinese society. The popular imagination more readily envisions the agrarian systems that governed China before 1919 and after 1949, but capitalism thrived in Shanghai during that thirty-year buffer between feudalism and Communism. This flirtation with the free market engendered an urban working class, which faced tribulations and injustices that supplied Shanghai’s leftist filmmakers with ample subject matter. Restrained by Kuomintang censorship from directly attacking Chinese capitalism, Yuan employs melodrama to expose Street Angel’s bourgeois audience to the plight of the urban poor.

    Read More

  • Temperance Movement and Opium

    550 Words  | 2 Pages

    Weirde. (n.d.). Chinatown's Opium Dens. Found San Francisco Digital Archive. Retrieved April 20, 2014, from http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Chinatown%27s_Opium_Den

    Read More

  • River Town Two Years On The Yangtze Chapter Summary

    1466 Words  | 3 Pages

    In his memoir River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, Peter Hessler explains his time teaching English in the town Fuling. However, he paints a portrait of China that defies the preconceptions that a Westerner would have. Furthermore, while doing so, he discusses all the personal challenges and experiences that one would have in being a westerner in China at the time period. Ultimately, however, the value of his book comes from the image that he paints, which shows a side of the country that many do not know.

    Read More

  • Historic New York and Its Diversity

    937 Words  | 2 Pages

    New York City has always been an example of how diversity can exist in a successful and peaceful place. Full of action, enthusiasm, and a combination of many cultures, New York is rich in every sense of the word. For example, taking a walk down the busy streets not only opens your eyes to the small but meaningful details of the city and the different people that revive it but also the numerous worlds that are somehow fused in this magical city, like Little Italy, Chinatown, Little Syria, Korea Town, and many others.

    Read More

  • Theme Of Identity In The Jade Peony

    1240 Words  | 3 Pages

    This is evident in the persistence of elderly characters, such as Grandmother Poh-Poh, who instigate the old Chinese culture to avoid the younger children from following different traditions. As well, the Chinese Canadians look to the Vancouver heritage community known as Chinatown to maintain their identity using on their historical past, beliefs, and traditions. The novel uniquely “encodes stories about their origins, its inhabitants, and the broader society in which they are set,” (S. Source 1) to teach for future generations. In conclusion, this influential novel discusses the ability for many characters to sustain one sole

    Read More

  • Analysis Of The Article Erasing Indigenous Indigeneity In Vancouver

    1136 Words  | 3 Pages

    She chooses to cite only academic publications, Canadian governmental documents, and local newspaper articles in her long list of sources, none of which provide perspective from the people around which the article is centered; the Chinese. This highlights the key issue within the article; whilst Anderson meticulously examines how Chinatown is simply a construction of white supremacists, she ignores what life was actually like for the area’s inhabitants, and how the notion of ‘Chinatown’ may have become a social reality for those living in it. By failing to include sources written by those who lived in Chinatown during the time or live there now, she misses the notion of Canadian-Chinese agency and its potential willingness to thrive and adapt in an environment she deems simply a hegemonic construction. Barman’s sources are all encompassing from varying perspectives. This may be due to the fact that she wrote the article 20 years after Anderson’s, during a time in which history was beginning to be viewed through a culturally-relativistic lens.

    Read More

  • Architecture in Hong Kong

    1236 Words  | 3 Pages

    Hong Kong use to be a fishing village in the late 19th century it later evolved into a military port of strategic importance and eventually an international financial center, which is one of the most densely populated areas in the world after the engagement of Imperial China and the British Colony in the territory.

    Read More

  • Chinatown as Film Noir

    853 Words  | 2 Pages

    Films that are classified as being in the film noir genre all share some basic characteristics. There is generally a voice-over throughout the film in order to guide the audience's perceptions. These movies also involve a crime and a detective who is trying to figure out the truth in the situation. This detective usually encounters a femme fatale who seduces him. However, the most distinctive feature of the film noir genre is the abundance of darkness.

    Read More

  • Oriental Institute Museum

    994 Words  | 2 Pages

    The Oriental institute Museum is part of the university of chicago, a research facility Opposed to a teaching facility such as Wright college, the university is located in one of the most upcoming areas, also given one of many best chicago neighborhood development awards. This would explain why Hyde Park was a back drop for the presidential election bringing forth one of the most loved and revered presidents, President Barack Obama. Prior to my mandatory trip to this side of chicago I was unaware of such a neighborhood existing on the south side. I've always stayed away from that side of the city due to a cultural bias, uninformed decision influenced throughout the knowledge attained from mass media. ( i.e. the news) Thankfully due to this mandatory visit to the museum I am now aware of a neighborhood I can safely travel to and utilize for its wealth of historical museums and information.

    Read More

  • Thematic and Stylistic Devices in Neo-noir Film

    763 Words  | 2 Pages

    While there are many different ways to classify a Neo-noir film, Roman Polanski’s, Chinatown captures many. The 1974 movie consists of many of these elements, including both thematic and stylistic devices. One of the main themes of neo-noir film that is constant throughout the film is the deceptive plot that questions the viewers’ ideas and perceptions of what is actually happening in the film. Every scene of Chinatown leads to a twist or another turn that challenges the practicability of the film’s reality. All of the never-ending surprises and revelations lead up to the significant themes the movie is trying to convey in the conclusion of the film.

    Read More

  • Comparison of the American and Chinese Cultures

    1897 Words  | 4 Pages

    Retrieved March 21, 2001, from the World Wide Web: http://english.peopledaily.com. Chinatown Online is a wonderful site with an abundance of information about China. http://www.chinatown-online.com/. Henslin, J. M. (1999). The Species of the Species. Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach (4th ed.).

    Read More

  • Bruce Lee

    1316 Words  | 3 Pages

    Chinatown. When he and his family returned to Hong Kong in 1941, he was called

    Read More

  • Essay About Ho Chi Minh City

    793 Words  | 2 Pages

    Adam Smith said, “The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their efforts.” People struggle through tangled obstacles everyday in the gust of heat; unfortunately, they receive little appreciation. Ho Chi Minh is a hectic city labeled with hardship: a rampaging crowd and varieties of weather; blood lusting bugs and sweaty half naked Asians; the streets of a disposal site and the dark secrecy of gambling. All of these contributing factors add up to be displeasing. Nevertheless, keeping an open mind to their traditional activities, foods, and entertainment is the trail to the vivid image of heaven.

    Read More

More about Informative Essay: Unravelling The Secrets Of Chinatown

Open Document