Transcript: Profile: San Francisco's Chinatown celebrates the Chinese New Year with a fair

ALEX CHADWICK
NPR Special
01-22-2004
Profile: San Francisco's Chinatown celebrates the Chinese New Year with a fair

Host: ALEX CHADWICK
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM

ALEX CHADWICK, host:

From Wall Street now to the streets of Chinatown. It's New Year's Day--that's according to the Chinese calendar. Today is New Year's Day. Chinese-Americans are celebrating. In San Francisco, reporter Debra Schifrin went to Chinatown to see people there greet the lunar year 4702.

DEBRA SCHIFRIN reporting:

The heart of Chinatown was closed off this past weekend for a giant New Year's fair. Tens of thousands of Chinese-Americans walked through endless red booths of food, clothes and plants. Wade, from Golden Gate ...

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