Entrance gate to New Chinatown, Los Angeles. 1939. Herman J. Schultheis Collection/Los Angeles Public Library Collection
Anonymous, "New Chinatown", contributed by Raymond Fang, Center for Ethnography, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 25 November 2019, accessed 3 May 2024. http://www.centerforethnography.org/content/new-chinatown
Critical Commentary
This image depicts Central Plaza, the hub of New Chinatown. Constructed in the 1930s with deliberately self-Orientalizing architecture, Central Plaza was owned and operated by Chinese-Americans.