Imagining Chinatown: Broken Blossoms (1919) in Britain
Before the Second World War, the majority of London’s modest Chinese population –consisting of approximately 900 people – resided in Limehouse, the East part of the city. The popular discourse saw Chinatown as synonymous with an exotic underworld filled with opium dens and exotic indulgences; a plac...
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Milano University Press
2018-11-01
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| Series: | Altre Modernità |
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| Online Access: | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/10821 |