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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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: 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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See also: List of Chinatowns Chinatowns are most common in North America, Asia, Australia and Europe, but are common across much of the globe. Immigration patterns determine the economic, political and social character of individual Chinatowns, as do their intranational locations (urban, suburban or rural). Most Chinatowns grow organically but some countries have taken to building an ...

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In Chinese, Chinatown is usually called in Standard Mandarin Tángrénjiē (唐人街): "Tang people streets". The literal translation of the word is an uncommon term for the Chinese, used here since the Cantonese, who make up a large proportion of immigrants, were only fully brought under imperial control under the Tang dynasty). Indeed, some Chinatowns are just a street, such as the relatively short Fisgard Street in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada or the sprawling 4-mile (6.4km) long new Chinatown of Bellair ...

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Emigration from China to other parts of the world really took off in the 1860s with the enactment of the Treaty of Peking, which opened the border for free movement. The early immigrants came primarily from coastal province of Guangdong and Fujian (Fukien) — where Cantonese, Min Nan (Hokkien), Hakka, and Chaozhou (Teochew, Chiu Chow) are largely spoken — in southeastern China. Initially, the Qing government of China did not care for these migrants leaving the country. Taishanese and Cantonese settled in the first North American Chinatown ...

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In Chinese, Chinatown is usually called in Standard Mandarin Tángrénjiē (唐人街): "Tang people streets". The literal translation of the word is an uncommon term for the Chinese, used here since the Cantonese, who make up a large proportion of immigrants, were only fully brought under imperial control under the Tang dynasty). Indeed, some Chinatowns are just a street, such as the relatively short Fisgard Street in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada or the sprawling 4-mile long new Chinatown of Bellaire Boulev ...

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Chinatown, Chinatown - Names, Chinatown - Settlement patterns and history of the earliest Chinatowns, Chinatown - Features, Chinatown - Arches or Paifang, Chinatown - Bilingual signs, Chinatown - Antiquated features, Chinatown - Restaurants, Chinatown - Shops, Chinatown - Benevolent associations, Chinatown - Annual events in Chinatown, Chinatown - Dragon and lion dances, Chinatown - Social problems in Chinatown, Chinatown - Chinatowns worldwide, Chinatown - Chinatown in film television and the arts

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