An Interview With Stanislaw Lem

Lem, Stanisław; Engel, Peter H.; Sigda, John M.

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“…Mrs. Wong delivered babies and arranged herbal combinations to treat a variety of conditions, which, Betty noted, was "really something for a woman who didn't speak a word of English to know how to get the herbs together." 81 Like Mexican house courts, Chinatown buildings were positioned along streets in a manner that formed common spaces in the middle of blocks, spaces that were central to collective living and working. Like the Ng's home arrangement, most buildings had shops, restaurants, or other businesses that faced the street, while the dwellings were located in the back, as the 1906 Sanborn map illustrates (Figure 9).…”

Section: Making Home Making Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Let him come.'" 98 Even in the face of limited family resources in the 1920s, Mrs. Wong insisted that the family further share their home, food, and resources. In doing so, she emphasized to her children that home was not limited to herself and her children, but was molded through daily interactions and sharing with other members of their neighborhood community.…”

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Making Do, Making Home

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2014

Journal of Urban History

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The racialized and gendered regulations of national borders through the industrialization of neighborhood geographies had a tremendous impact on daily work, home architecture, and social relationships in the Chinatown and Sonoratown neighborhoods of Los Angeles during the early twentieth century. Using space and gender as analytic lenses, this article examines the built environments of house courts in Sonoratown and Chinatown as windows into the everyday lives of Mexican and Chinese Angelenos. Women's ordering of domestic space and intimate labor in and around the home spaces-in particular, their use of common spaces like courtyards and alleyways-blurred the categories that city and state agents designated for family, home, and nation, as they shaped conceptions of community that exceeded the logic of the nation-state.In 1924, eleven-year-old Betty Wong and her younger brother Bruce returned home from grammar school one day to find that their father had passed away, leaving behind their mother and their twelve older siblings along with the family business, a herbal medicine shop that was attached to their house in Chinatown, Los Angeles. 1 Observing the customary Chinese mourning period, Mrs. Wong and the children did not leave the house for three months. During that time, the women and children of their neighborhood came to cook together and socialize. Betty fondly remembered that her mother had taught the children to play mahjong and let them stay up all night. "With no father around, she just living the life of variety I guess, just having a good time, showing her children how to play dominos, you know. 'Cause she have all the say then, see?" Betty's testimony focused not on her father's death but on the importance of the home her mother created in his absence, and the extended neighborhood community she forged with other Chinese women and children. For Betty's mother, home-making and community-making went hand in hand, and she used the space of her house, the medicine shop, and its location in the neighborhood to those ends. Chinese women like Mrs. Wong worked not only to maintain their familial

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Section: Making Home Making Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Making Home Making Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%