Via Paolo Sarpi

This guide to Via Paolo Sarpi in Milan follows Wu Li Shan, called the Professor for his serious mahjong games, one of the first migrants from China's Zhejiang province to settle on this street in 1931, when it was known as Borg di Scigulatt. It traces how his marriage to an Italian woman shaped Milan's earliest Chinese community, at a time when Chinese women had not yet arrived in Italy. Listen for the leather and tie workshops where he and his neighbors built a life here, long before red lanterns and dumpling counters arrived.