Asian American Stories of Resilience and Beyond
My Chinatown, With Aloha
A fourth-generation Chinese American, filmmaker Kimberlee Bassford explores her familyโs relationship to Honolulu's Chinatown. She also examines the parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and the 1899-1900 bubonic plague in Hawaiโi, highlighting the ways the two public health crises transformed the iconic neighborhood then and now.