We sat with Eugene Moy in one of the most trafficked pedestrian areas in Chinatown to talk about his views on the birth of Chinatown, discovering one's roots and the future of Chinese Americans in Los Angeles.
The sojourners - the first immigrants to California in the mid-1800's primarily from China's southeastern area - came in search of "Gold Mountain." Despite their invaluable contribution to California's economy and the nation's railroad system, the sojo...
In the late 1970's and 1980's, Madame Wong's restaurant and The Hong Kong Café began booking Los Anelges' emerging punk bands and revitalizing the next phase of the region's life.
Our conversations with Chinatown Service Center's current CEO, Lawrence J. Lue, provide a fascinating history of the center's development, philosophy and the struggles it still has ahead in bridging the gap between its services and mainstream society.
We sat down with Munson A. Kwok at the Chinese Citizens Alliance (the first Chinese civil rights organization in the country) to discuss the ways citizenship and property rights have affected the Chinese American community since the turn of the twentie...
Jeff Spurrier told us during our interview both he and Ann Summa covered the punk scene - of mostly unsigned bands - for the Los Angeles Times music column for a couple of years, becoming the public eyes and ears of an era and a movement that is only n...
In the following videos, Suellen Cheng describes the first building blocks of the Chinese community in Los Angeles and the community's transition from a city of migrants to the home of longtime residents.
We sat down with the Lim family, owners of the Kim Chuy Restaurant on Broadway Street, and talked about their escape from Cambodia, the art of the noodles and the Chiu Chow style.
Like early Cantonese migrants, Zung Wu came from the Pearl River Delta looking for the "Gam Saan" or "Gold Mountain"; we found him playing the Erhu, or Chinese Fiddle, in Chinatown's Main Plaza to make ends meet.