A Chinatown is a section containing a large population of Chinese people within a city that is not predominantly Chinese. Singapore, with its predominently ethnic Chinese population, is the only exception. Chinatowns are most common in Southeast Asia and North America, but growing Chinatowns can be found in Europe and Australia, as well as in São Paulo, Brazil. Chinatowns were formed in the 19th century in many areas of the United States and Canada as a result of discriminatory land laws that forbade the sale of any land to Ch ...

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Main Article: Social problems in Chinatown Overcoming an earlier reputation of being dirty slums, Chinatowns currently enjoy the rewards of attracting tourists with Asian cuisine and culture. However the economic success brings with it Asian organized crime with rival gangs competing for new lucrative opportunities in extortion, people smuggling, gambling, prostitution and drug trafficking. This has led to high profile shoot-outs where innocent bystanders and police have been killed. Although some Chinatowns have experienced re ...

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Toronto's is the second largest Chinatown in North America and the largest when all six Chinatowns are grouped as one. It is centred around the intersection of Dundas Street West and Spadina Avenue, and extends outward from this point along both streets. It has grown significantly over the years and has come to reflect a diverse set of Asian cultures through its shops and restaurants, including Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai. Toronto's original Chinatown was located on Dundas Street West and Bay Street. When the City began construction ...

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San Francisco's Chinatown was the port of entry for early Taishanese and Zhongshanese Chinese immigrants from the southern Guangdong province of China from the 1850s to the 1900s. The Chinatown in particular was a stronghold for the Taishanese community. The majority of shopkeepers and restaurant owners in San Francisco were predominantly Taishanese and male. They came as laborers to build California's growing railway networks, most famously the Transcontinental Railroad or as miners either employed or independent miners hoping to strike it ...

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Chinatown started on Mott Street, Park, Pell and Doyer streets, east of the notorious Five Points district. By 1870, there was a Chinese population of 200. By the time the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was passed, the population was up to 2000 residents. By 1900, there were 7000 Chinese residents, but fewer than 200 Chinese women. The early days of Chinatown were dominated by Chinese "tongs" (now sometimes rendered neutrally as "associations"), which were a mixture of clan associations, landsman's associations, political alliances (Ku ...

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Between 1852 (when the first Chinese immigrants were reported to be in Los Angeles) and 1890 a distinct community of over 3,000 Chinese people flourished. This original Chinatown was located between El Pueblo Plaza and Old Arcadia Street, stretching eastward across Alameda Street. In 1871, 19 Chinese men and boys were murdered by a mob of 500 locals in one of the most serious incidents of racial violence that has ever occurred in A ...

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During the 1990s, wealthy Chinese immigrants, primarily from Hong Kong, moved directly to suburban Richmond Hill, where they set up businesses and shops catering to that community. Many shops and restaurants were established in suburban-style shopping malls and plazas, especially along Highway 7 between Bayview Avenue and Warden Avenue. ...

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As a whole, Las Vegas's Chinatown is located west of the Las Vegas Strip on Spring Mountain Road - just a stone's throw away from the Treasure Island and The Venetian casinos. Also included in Chinatown are scores of Filipino, Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese American businesses as it serves a pan-Asian community, making the term Chinatown somewhat of a misnomer. The Chinatown also serves the local population and tourists as well and, in the area where Las Vegas was lacking, was especially conceived as an area to offer authentic Chinese cuisine ...

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San Francisco's Chinatown is home to the well-known and historic Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (known as the Chinese Six Companies), which is the umbrella organization for local Chinese family and regional associations in Chinatown. It has spawned lodges in other Chinatowns in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including Chinatown, Los Angeles and Chinatown, Portland. Author Amy Tan grew up in the neighborhood. Her book the Joy Luck Club is based on her ...

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San Francisco's Chinatown is located in downtown. It is roughly bordered by Powell Street and the Nob Hill District on the West. On the east is Kearny Street and The City's Financial District. On the north is North Beach and Green Street and Columbus Street. On the south is Bush Street and the Union Square area. Despite its decline, it has been slowly expanding northward into the North Beach neighborhood north of Green and Columbus Street. Within Chinatown there are two major thoroughfares: Grant Avenue, which has the famous Dragon ga ...

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In recent years, however, Cantonese-speaking immigrants from Hong Kong and Hakka and Mandarin (Putonghua)-speaking immigrants from Mainland China have gradually replaced the Taishanese dialect as many long-time Chinatown natives passed away and several American-born Chinese families moved on to suburbia. Many working-class Hong Kong Chinese immigrants began arriving in large numbers in the 1960s and despite their status and professions in Hong Kong, immigrants found low-pay employment in restauran ...

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Until the 1960s, the bulk of the population was Toisan and Cantonese speaking, coming from a small area of Guangdong province and Hong Kong with a small minority of Hakka also represented. Mandarin was rarely spoken by natives even well into the 1980's. More recently, most new immigrants speak Putonghua (Mandarin), coming from Mainland China, with large numbers from Fuzhou also speaking in Fuzhou dialect. ...

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The Greater Toronto Area in Ontario, Canada, has at least six Chinatowns — three are located within the city's boundaries, while the other three are located in adjacent suburbs. Chinatown Toronto - Downtown Chinatown. Toronto's is the second largest Chinatown in North America and the largest when all six Chinatowns are grouped as one. It is centred around the intersection of Dundas Street West and Spadina Avenue, and extends outward from this point along both streets. It has grown significantly over the years an ...

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The features described below are characteristic of most Chinatowns. In some cases, however, they may only apply to Chinatowns in Western countries, such as those in North America, Australia, and Western Europe. (See also: Chinatown patterns in North America) Chinatown - Arches or Paifang. Many tourist-destination metropolitan Chinatowns can be easily distinguished by large red arch entrance structures known in Mandarin Chinese as Paifang (sometimes accompanied by mason lion statues cal ...

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Main article: Southern California Chinatowns There are now other flourishing satellite Chinese communities in the Greater Los Angeles Area that are not officially classified as "Chinatowns", but are well known, such as Monterey Park, where over 60 percent of the population is Asian American, and San Gabriel (where the Asian population is approaching 50 percent). ...

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Several Chinese American bus lines connect Chinatown, Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley in Southern California to Las Vegas various casinos and Chinatown as the final destination. For those not driving to or within Las Vegas, Chinatown is accessible by taxi. Chinatown is also served by Las Vegas city bus called Citizens Area Transit - from Las Vegas Strip, take CAT route 203 - a route for Spring Mountain Road - and step off at bus stop 104 for Chinatown Plaza just past Valley View Boulevard, or bus stop 103 for Pacific Asian Plaza pa ...

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During the Chinese New Year, the Chinatown Plaza also hosts Las Vegas's special annual Asian food festival with great energetic lion and dragon dance performances (performed by a local Shaolin group) and superb Japanese taiko drum performances. The Miss Chinatown Las Vegas pageant is held in Chinatown Plaza. They are definitely of one of the kind in Nevada. To promote cultural diversity and understanding, field trips to Chinatown Plaza often brings students from local elementary schools and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas eager to ...

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Chinatown, Las Vegas - Chinatown Plaza. Located on Spring Mountain Road between Valley View Boulevard and Arville Street, Chinatown Plaza (中國城, Mandarin: zhong guo cheng) comprises of 85,000 square foot of bustling immigrant commerce, with several types of restaurants offering regional Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong cuisine as well as other Asian cuisine (Filipino, Japanese, and Vietnamese). The great assortment of businesses in Chinatown Plaza also include a good book store (selling Chinese language public ...

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At first, "Chinatown" was conceived for the purpose of serving Chinese-speaking tourists and business visiting Las Vegas from the Southern California area and Asia. At present, the population of Asian Americans in Las Vegas is 22,879 and comprise 4.8% of the total population as of the 2000 Census. Almost half of Las Vegas's Chinese American population - numbering at 2,784 residents - are from Taiwan. Some came from mainland China and Sout ...

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