Homelands in the Mind: Nostalgia and Identity in Three Fictional Depictions of Chinatowns/Japantowns. This paper is written about the nostalgia and identity in fictional depictions of Chinatowns/Japantowns. For much of the history of Asian immigration to the United States and Canada, Asian immigrants - primarily from China and Japan - settled in small communities in these new lands. These communities, known as Chinatowns or Japantowns, represented the confused identity of these people. Pages: 11 Bibliography: 5 source(s) listed Filename: 18791 Homelands Mind Nostalgia.doc Price: 98.45