Asian American Stories of Resilience and Beyond

My Chinatown, With Aloha

Episode 4 | 9m 51s | Video has closed captioning.

A fourth-generation Chinese American, filmmaker Kimberlee Bassford explores her family’s relationship to Honolulu's Chinatown. She also examines the parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and the 1899-1900 bubonic plague in Hawai‘i, highlighting the ways the two public health crises transformed the iconic neighborhood then and now.