Home Base: a Chinatown Called Heinlenville

Jessica Yu

United States of America / 1991 / Documentary / 17’0”I9200217

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SYNOPSIS

The last Chinatown in San Jose, Heinlenville, a close-knit immigrant community built after the Chinese were burned out of the city in the 1880s, battled both racial hostility and economic depression before fading in the 1930s.

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