Listening for the Trains to Come

May Sun

1992. Segment of a parking lot fence, CRA%. The work provides details from the history of Chinese Americans in Los Angeles, who originally settled in the area where Union Station was subsequently built in the 1930s. The current Chinatown was known as the New Chinatown. "Listening for the Trains to Come" incorporates text and negatives from historic photographs. Do not reproduce information from this site without acknowledgement of the artists and their works, or of the authors of this site.

Images of the front and the back of the fence segment
Chinese Settlement in Los Angeles segment
Early Chinese Women in Los Angeles segment
Pioneer Railroad Workers segment
Chinese in California Agriculture/New Chinatown segment
Background information on the project
A short biography of the artist
A bibliography of resources on the project

To: Public Art in Chinatown, Los Angeles

Photos taken by Ruth Wallach
Page maintained by Ruth Wallach, USC Libraries

9/1998