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Here’s a link to a recent blog entry where I talk about films, MoCA, and rainforests. Big thanks to Alex Steed for the write-up. According to their website, TRACE is a TRANSCULTURAL Styles and Ideas magazine – a perfect host, then, for musings about our Chinatown Film Project. http://blog.trace212.com/archives/363#more-363 And a photo snapped in the old Chinese Benevolent Association in Kingston’s former Chinatown. Get this – the Chinese community is so integrated in Jamaica, that there is no Chinatown. Not only have the Chinese in Jamaica integrated racially, linguistically, and culturally – Bob Marley’s first producer was Chinese – but, after arriving as indentured servants, Chinese Jamaicans now represent the moneyed elite.I wonder why the Chinese immigrant experience was so different in Jamaica than anywhere else. — Karin Chien