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May 5, 2021 · The 8 best Chinatowns around the world. Most great cities boast Chinatowns, enclaves of Chinese culture, commerce and cuisine. While none were necessarily planned, or follow a template, all share fascinating histories and repay curious travelers with ebullient architecture, fire-cracking festivals and delectable food.
Boston. Paifang gate to Chinatown, Boston, one of the largest Chinatowns in the United States. The sole established Chinatown of New England is in Boston, [citation needed] on Beach Street and Washington Street near South Station between Downtown Crossing and Tufts Medical Center.
A Chinatown is an area in which many ethnic Chinese lived or work. In most cases, these ethnic Chinese are migrants and minorities in their host country or new homeland. Chinatowns can be found in most cities in South East Asia, North America, Europe, Australia and Africa.
Chinatowns serve as community hubs for new immigrants and tourist destinations but also as symbols of a longstanding, tumultuous history that ties directly into America's xenophobic treatment of Chinese immigrants.
Chinatown is the name used for neighborhood in any city outside of China where many Chinese immigrants came to live together. Chinatowns became common in cities around the world after China lost the first Opium War with the British Empire. After China lost, many Chinese people became poor, especially people living in Guangdong province.
Sep 14, 2020 · San Francisco’s Chinatown is the oldest one in the U.S., and the largest outside of Asia. But these Chinatowns were also borne out of growing racial tension and discrimination in housing and...
There are Chinatowns in cities around the world. See Wikipedia for an extensive list; here we list only the ones Wikivoyage has an article for. See Legacy of the Overseas Chinese for a more general treatment, including links to many of the places the Chinese immigrants came from.
1 day ago · Now 50 years old, Chinatown is one of the all-time great crime films – and that's partly because of a potent story based on the real history of California's so-called "water wars".
2 days ago · Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. This spring, I went to see Chinatown in a theater for the first time since its release, on June 20, 1974. The movie was ...
3 days ago · Chinatown represents a creative zenith for almost everyone involved in its making, from the performances to John Alonzo’s photography, to Sam O’Steen’s editing, to the Oscar-winning screenplay by Robert Towne (and Edward Taylor – whose uncredited role in writing the script was revealed in Sam Wasson’s chatty 2021 making-of book The Big Goodbye, which has been optioned by Ben Affleck), all set to Jerry Goldsmith’s lonely-horny-lazy score, with its sleazy solo trumpet blare that ...
