The Digital Infrastructure of New York City’s “New Chinatown”
Asian American / Asian Research Institute - CUNY 25 West 43rd Street, Room 1000, New York, NY, United States
Hybrid Event
Prof. Yuchen Chen will present on their project examining Chinese immigrants and real estate entrepreneurs in West Queens, exploring their placemaking practices in the emerging “new Chinatown.” Prof. Chen focuses on how Chinese ethnic media platforms mediate these processes and introduces the concept of “infrastructure” to understand diasporic identity and placemaking. By shifting the focus […]