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"As a Chinese immigrant growing up in Australia, Elizabeth Chong recalls the
days when Melbourne’s Chinatown was a place that reaffirmed her heritage and
offered a sense of belonging.
Elizabeth, now 92 years old, migrated to Australia from China in the 1930s at
the age of three.
Dubbed “the last empress of Melbourne Chinatown”, Elizabeth is part of a family
with a decades-old connection to the precinct, having owned restaurants and
held festivals in the area since the 1980s.
“But now I don’t know where it’s going. I don’t feel it’s the same personal
Chinatown that I knew,” she says.
The “personal Chinatown” Elizabeth refers to is the strip down Little Bourke
Street, which for decades served as a hub for social gatherings, meals and
cultural celebrations — in fact, it’s one of the oldest Chinatowns in the
world."
Via Clarice Boomshakala Bouvier.
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