Chinatown Melbourne
Historic strip of gold-rush-era lodging houses and shopfronts under red-lit ceremonial arches, home to a dragon parade tradition.
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This guide to Chinatown Melbourne opens in 1949, when the workshops in Foshan, China that built ceremonial parade dragons were shut down for thirty years. It follows how, in the late 1970s, samples of a dragon paraded right along Little Bourke Street were carried back to the one craftsman who remembered the old methods. Along the way it traces the gold rush prospectors who built this strip from the 1850s, chasing what they called the New Gold Mountain.
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