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The Chinatown Punk Wars

99% Invisible

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Chinese American Business and the Punk Scene

In the late 1970s, Esther and George Wong did something similar. They capitalized on a new crowd by selling them an experience they couldn't get anywhere else. The punk scene is just going to be part of a broader history of a type of symbiotic relationship in which Chinese American businesses are catering to and sometimes profiting from folks that are coming into the community.

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