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Use this room when you already know the kind of cultural terrain you want to inspect. For guided orientation, open the Field Map or begin with a pathway.

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Now showing — China Town · 5 works

  • Chinatown Film · 1970s

    A private detective uncovers corruption in 1930s Los Angeles. Noir perfected.

    After-hoursPowerLonging
  • 11 Flowers Film · 2010s

    A boy in 1970s rural China witnesses a murder and keeps the secret. Wang Xiaoshuai's autobiographical coming-of-age set in the Cultural Revolution's aftermath.

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
  • The City & The City Books · 2000s

    An extremely unhappy ten-year-old magically escapes into a city he has built out of books, chessmen, candlesticks, and other household items.

    Urban isolationMemoryMigration
  • To Live Books · 1990s

    One man's life through the upheavals of modern China. Civil war, famine, the Cultural Revolution — endurance as the only story.

    ModernityMemoryMigration
  • Soul Mountain Books · 1990s

    A journey through rural China as the self dissolves into landscape, memory, and storytelling. Nobel Prize in Literature, 2000.

    MemoryMigrationIdentity
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Books that echo Chinatown
  • The City & The City Books
  • To Live Books
Listening lane
Albums for China
  • Chinatown Music
  • China Town Music
Cultural geography
Regional constellations
  • 11 Flowers Film
  • Chinatown Film