Landmark
Katendrecht
Former harbour Chinatown and red-light peninsula, now a lively quarter of cafés and waterfront warehouses.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to Katendrecht in Rotterdam starts on a Lunar New Year midnight in Atjehstraat, with fireworks in the street and a row of Dutch policemen looking on. It follows the Chinese sailors stranded here after the seamen's strike of nineteen eleven, the crowded boarding houses they paid for, and the police of the nineteen-thirties. Along the way you meet a girl from New Jersey named Vivian Wong. Best heard on the square by Delistraat, near the foot of the Rijnhaven Bridge.
This audio guide was created using AI.