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This is a '''list of [[Chinatown]]s''' <!--(enclaves containing a large population of [[Han Chinese|Chinese people]] within a non-Chinese society)--> in the United States.
This is a '''list of [[Chinatown]]s''' <!--(enclaves containing a large population of [[Han Chinese|Chinese people]] within a non-Chinese society)--> in the United States.

==Arkansas==
Many people of Chinese descent live in the state of [[Arkansas]].
* '''China Town''', located on Highway 77 in [[Marion, Arkansas]].<ref>http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/China.Town.Marion.AR.870-739-0889</ref>


== California ==
== California ==

Revision as of 18:01, 29 March 2010

This is a list of Chinatowns in the United States.

Arkansas

Many people of Chinese descent live in the state of Arkansas.

California

Los Angeles Chinatown Broadway entrance

California is home to many Chinese people, especially in the Los Angeles and San Francisco area. Los Angeles has more Mandarin speaking people due to immigration from Taiwan and continued immigration from the Mainland. San Francisco Bay Area is generally home to many Hong Kong Chinese, although there is still a growing presence of Mandarin speakers.

Chinatown, San Francisco
  • San Francisco (See Chinatown, San Francisco.)
  • San Jose - defunct "Chinatown" on Market Street (Source: http://marketstreet.stanford.edu/), though a historical sign exists near the Fairmont Hotel that says the Chinatown was burned down by arson back around the 1960s.
    • Cupertino - North Wolfe Road, Cupertino Village anchor by 99 Ranch Market; Taiwanese Chinese.
    • Milpitas - Barber Lane; Taiwan, Mainlander and Hong Kong Chinese.
    • Mountain View - Castro Street in downtown, with a collection of stores, eateries, grocers, bakers for the Hong Kong immigrant community
  • San Luis Obispo - Palm Street, a collection of closed restaurants and the historic Ah Louis store remain.
  • Stockton - Washington Street and Chung Wah Lane, vastly diminished since the 1960s but several Chinese facilities are still fairly active on two blocks (including a Chinese restaurant in operation since the 1890s)
  • Ventura
  • Weaverville - a gold mining-era town that had a Chinatown but burned down in 1906. The remaining Taoist joss house is on the National Register of Historic Places

Colorado

  • Denver - along Federal Blvd and Alameda Ave

District of Columbia

File:DCChinatown.jpg
Washington DC Chinatown
Main article: Chinatown, Washington, D.C.

Florida

  • Miami - NE 167th Street and 163rd Street, between NE 6th Avenue and NE 19th Avenue[2]
  • Orlando - State Route 50, on both sides of I-4 (mix of Chinese and Vietnamese)
  • Tampa - Waters and Armenia Avenues

Hawaii

Idaho

  • Boise - founded in 1901 and lasted until 1970s, formerly on 8th Street and Front Street

Illinois

Main article: Chinatown, Chicago

Maryland

Massachusetts

Boston Chinatown
Main article: Chinatown (Boston)

Michigan

  • Detroit (historic): Detroit's first Chinatown, the historic "Old Chinatown," was originally located on Third Avenue between Michigan and Bagley. Increasing in size and population between the 1920s and 1950s, "Old Chinatown" was eventually condemned for a "slum clearance" project that ultimately resulted in the construction of the John C. Lodge Freeway in 1959. In the early 1960s, residents and business owners of the Chinese American community relocated to the Cass Corridor, where "New Chinatown" was unveiled as Detroit's new ethnic and commercial district. Throughout the 1970s and 80s, high crime and unemployment rates rocked the city, leading many residents of "New Chinatown" to fear for their safety. Both the shooting of Tommie Lee at Bow Wah's Restaurant in 1976 and the killing of Vincent Chin in 1982 lead many Chinese Americans who lived in the city to move their families and businesses to the surrounding suburbs. Today, the Association of Chinese Americans' Detroit Drop-in Service Center still operates at Peterboro and Cass, providing social and welfare services to a small community of elderly Chinese immigrants who live nearby.[5] The hallmark Cantonese restaurant, Chung's, closed its doors in 2004.
  • Madison Heights: Just north of Detroit in Madison Heights, there is a small but present strip of East Asian commercial outlets along John R. Road, which include restaurants and retail managed by individuals of Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, and Filipino descent. Also located in Madison Heights is the Association of Chinese Americans' Chinese Community Center. Although the Chinese American population of Southeast Michigan is comparatively smaller than other American cities, the Detroit chapter of the ACA is the only branch of the Organization of Chinese Americans to have a fully operational community center, as well as two satellite service centers.[6]

Minnesota

  • Nicollet Ave in Minneapolis does have a large number of Chinese and Vietnamese restaurants, especially between W 24th and W 28th Streets. This area in the urban area of the Whittier neighbourhood has been Asian-influenced since the 1970s.

Missouri

  • St. Louis - original Chinatown destroyed in early 1960s; second relocated Chinatown defunct since late 1970s
  • University City - third new St. Louis area "Chinatown" on Olive Boulevard

Montana

Nebraska

  • Omaha, Nebraska - defunct, vicinity of 12th and Douglas Streets with the On Leong Tong based at 111 North 12th. King Fong's Cantonese at 315 South 16th Street was opened in 1921 by Gin Ah Chin with elaborate furnishings imported from Hong Kong. (Source: E Pluribus Omaha: Immigrants All by Harry Otis and Donald Erickson, 2000)

Nevada

Main article: Chinatown, Las Vegas
  • Las Vegas - Asian commercial plazas along Spring Mountain Road
  • Virginia City- a historic Chinatown which had a Chinese population of over 1500 in the 1870s.[8]

New Jersey

Sunset Park, Brooklyn

New York

New York City is currently the biggest magnet of Mainland Chinese immigration, and now it is very diverse, with Fujianese, Shanghainese, Cantonese, Taiwanese and other various types of Chinese people.

There is also a Chinatown in Edison, New Jersey

North Carolina

Charlotte's Asian Corner Mall
  • Charlotte - Central Avenue (near Briar Creek Rd.) is the original "Chinatown" consisting of "Saigon Square" and a pair of other Chinese shopping plazas that include "Dim Sum Restaurant" (which serves New York styled dim sum), the "Eang Hong Supermarket", "Van Loi" (which serves cha shao), and a dozen or so other stores.
    • Saigon Square has various Vietnamese (albeit not Chinese) stores including Pho Hoa (Vietnamese noodles).
    • Asian Corner Mall on North Tryon Street and Sugar Creek Road, developed from the defunct Tryon Mall in 1999, with "Dragon Court Restaurant", "Hong Kong BBQ", "International Supermarket", and "New Century Market" and several other Chinese/Vietnamese stores.

Ohio

Oklahoma

Main article: Asia District
  • Oklahoma City - roughly along N. Classen Blvd from N. 22nd Street to N. West 36th
    • Old Chinatown, Downtown - In the first half of the 20th century, hundreds of Chinese immigrants lived in an historic "underground Chinatown" beneath what is now the Cox Convention Center. The chambers were rediscovered, long-abandoned, in 1969.[9]

Oregon

Main article: Old Town Chinatown, Portland, Oregon

Pennsylvania

Chinatown, Philadelphia
Main article: Chinatown, Philadelphia
Old Pittsburgh Chinatown on Blvd. of the Allies
  • Pittsburgh -
    • Defunct old Chinatown around Blvd of the Allies and Grant St
      • One Chinese restaurant, Chinatown Inn, still exists from the original Chinatown in two of its original buildings.
      • Original tenants in the old original Pittsburgh Chinatown, all of which are gone today, included[10][11]:
        • Wing Hong Chinese Co., 519 Second Ave
        • Hop Ching Wing, at 527 Second Ave
        • Quong Yuen Lee Co., 505 Second Ave
        • Quong Chong Shing, 511 Second Ave
        • Sun Wing Sing Co, 507 Second Ave
        • Quong Wah Hai Co., 314 Second Ave
        • Lee Jan Fueng, 521 Second Ave
  • Harrisburg - Cameron Street

South Dakota

Tennessee

  • Memphis - Summer Avenue (east) near I-240

Texas

Main article: Chinatown, Houston
Chinatown, Houston

Utah

Virginia

Washington

See also


References

  1. ^ http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/China.Town.Marion.AR.870-739-0889
  2. ^ http://pandagator.info/blog/?p=188
  3. ^ Chinatown, Honolulu website
  4. ^ Chicago Chinatown website
  5. ^ Association of Chinese Americans, (ACA), Inc. (Accessed 26 December 2009).
  6. ^ Association of Chinese Americans, (ACA), Inc. (Accessed 26 December 2009).
  7. ^ [1]
  8. ^ Virginia City and Gold Hill website
  9. ^ [2]
  10. ^ "Inn to the past: Downtown Cantonese restaurant points back to city's vanished Chinatown".
  11. ^ "Where is Pittsburgh's China Town?".
  12. ^ [3]
  13. ^ Austin's Chinatown website
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