When I left the house this morning, little did I know what wonders I'd uncover. Hidden in the middle of fast and modern downtown New York was one of the strangest, most puzzling places I had ever laid eyes upon.
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The judge and the juvenile had grown up on the same mean streets, 40 years apart. And in fall 1996, they faced each other in a New York court where children are prosecuted as adults, but sentenced like candidates for redemption. The teenager, a gifted student, was pleading guilty to a string of muggings committed at 15 with an eclectic crew in Manhattan’s Chinatown.
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New York now has more Chinese people than any city outside of Asia. This photo essay explores Chinese life in the Big Apple, its three Chinatowns, and its connection to the city of Fuzhou.
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Though it is spoken by more than 70 million people worldwide, and is the third most-used language in Canada after English and French, Cantonese is in trouble here in not only Western Chinatowns but even in the city formerly known as Canton. In Guangzhou, however, Cantonese speakers are beginning to gently push back, hoping to preserve their mother tongue.
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An NY Times article looking at the effect of Fujianese migrants on the linguistic makeup of America's Chinatowns, where Cantonese is rapidly being eclipsed by Mandarin.
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