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Ben Sakoguchi's 'Chinatown’ Charts a History of Anti-Asian Hate At Bel Ami, Los Angeles, the artist’s paintings take a satirical look at the grisly history of American bigotry against US Asian populations In 1938, the year Ben Sakoguchi was born, New Chinatown opened in Los Angeles. The old Chinatown, just a few blocks south, had been wiped clean, replaced by the rails of Union Station. A bronze plaque in Chinatown Central Plaza says as much, surrounded by burbling fountains and bauble shops, all crowned with faux-tiled roofs accented in garish colours conceived by Hol...

News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. Email Sign up Cinephiles can look forward to TV blessed by bona fide auteurs. Wong Kar Wai’s first work since 2013’s The Grandmaster is the highly anticipated Blossoms Shanghai, set in the city of his birth. This adaptation of the award-winning novel Blossoms by Jin Yucheng started life as a film but is now a series featuring Chinese star Hu Ge (The Wild Goose Lake, 2019). The novel is set in two timelines: during the Cultural Revolution and in the early 1990s. Blossoms Shanghai

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