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A Photographer Traveled Across North America’s Chinatowns. Here’s What He Saw | News Channel 3-12

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By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — In Morris Lum’s photographic archive of Chinatowns, change is the only constant. Wall murals are painted then covered up. Restaurant menus adapt to diners’ evolving palates. Colorful shopfronts fade and are replaced, as family businesses fall victim to rising rents or the disinterest of aging owners’ children and grandchildren. “That’s the life cycle of a Chinatown,” said Lum, who has spent more than a decade docume…

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A photographer traveled across North America’s Chinatowns. Here’s what he saw

Capturing culture and commerce in over 20 Chinatowns, Morris Lum has compiled a living archive of migration patterns, diasporic trends and urban gentrification.

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