The project investigates the notion of commonality and stereotype - in relationship to the world of Chinatown(s) as social typologies. When analysed through the Chinese cultural attitude towards reproducibility, the proliferation of Chinatowns reveals a network of what we define “authentic trans-territorial clichés”. We need to craft challenging techniques for the legitimization and preservation of such a specific yet diffused identity: Chinatowns are constantly reconstructed and experienced in different parts of the world, growing into a familiar system of habits and iconographical values that represent a reminiscence of home for everybody. Architectural decisions will be the medium to unveil contextual yet critical and extremely personal languages. Through geometry and materiality, abstraction and figurativism, Architects should attempt to update the anorexic iconoclasm characterising most of the contemporary building practice.