In 1925 a journalist on the Barcelona newspaper El Escandalo used
the term Barrio Chino in a somewhat derogatory way to describe part
of the older city. While the area in question represented a
dystopian underbelly of the city, known for its impoverished living
and working conditions together with its 'red-light' subcultures,
it never existed as a 'Chinatown' in either a physical or social
sense. However the name of this mythical community stuck from the
1920s onwards, appearing on maps and descriptions of the inner city
but devoid of any hint of Chinese inhabitants or their culture. The
book takes this as a starting point to chart the development of
Barcelona over two hundred years using a series of 'diaries' and
drawn images. These are set around four generations of a fictional
Chinese dynasty and their imagined architectural participation in
some of the major events in Barcelona's modern history. As
residents of the Barrio from the mid-nineteenth century, they
individually document diverse contributions to the city during
periods of dynamic growth. This is set against a backdrop of
cataclysmic political change and exemplary forms of urban
regeneration which have provided Barcelona with its contemporary
'World City' status as it plans for the future.
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