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Chinatown: diasporic nostalgia

In Intermedias gallery, photography on February 7, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Photos by Monika Koch

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Chinatown is a space that combines nostalgia for the ‘old world’ of the homeland, with the ‘new world’ and all its material extensions.  

 

  

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This nostalgia is even more at contrast with China’s position now, as a country rapidly transforming into an industrial/economic superpower. 


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