List of Chinatowns

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This is a list of Chinatowns (urban regions containing a large population of Chinese people within a non-Chinese society) in select countries. It includes the parent city with metropolitan older Chinatown and newer satellite "Chinatowns" in the suburban communities. It includes some Chinatowns in rural towns.

Key:

  • Old, original main Chinatown in the anchor city - street or location
    • Newer areas in other parts of major cities or suburbs where Chinese people tend to shop for Chinese goods and services

General criteria for Chinatowns (A Chinatown should share many of these characteristics. More modern and newer Chinese commercial areas may be nebulous.):

  • A currently or historically Chinese-speaking community outside of Mainland China PRC, Taiwan ROC, Hong Kong SAR, and Macao SAR and maintain relative ties to these regions.
  • Older Chinatowns, officially recognized as Chinatown by local governments, historical societies, and so on.
  • In older Chinatowns, Chinese-style arches serving as entrance markers.
  • Center of community trade. A self-sustaining and concentrated community with goods and services and serving as a major cultural and commercial hub for foreign-born and native-born overseas Chinese.
  • Chinese-language newspaper presses.
  • A dense concentration of competitive immigrant-owned shops offering imported authentic Chinese and general Asian goods (for example, ginseng and herbs, Video CDs) not found in the larger society and geared towards ethnic Chinese population.
  • Family and regional associations and community organizations
  • Observation of Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year, with traditional Chinese dragon and lion dances
  • In Western countries, populated by ethnic Chinese immigrants, principally from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam and from various countries.


Contents

[edit] Argentina

[edit] Australia

[edit] New South Wales

Chinatown, Sydney
Chinatown, Sydney

[edit] Northern Territory

  • Brocks Creek
  • Darwin - defunct, was on Cavenagh Street. A new modern Chinatown to be built in Darwin CBD.
  • Pine Creek - historic goldfield Chinatown
Cooktown, Queensland in the 1890s.
Cooktown, Queensland in the 1890s.

[edit] Queensland

[edit] South Australia

[edit] Victoria

[edit] Western Australia

[edit] Belgium

[edit] Canada

[edit] Alberta

  • Calgary - Downtown East Village (Chinatown, Calgary)
    • Centre Street N, south of 16th Avenue N, and East of Centre Street north at 2nd and 3rd avenues. Originally a handful of Chinese businesses, now an ethnic theme park-cum-mall
  • Edmonton - 95th Street between 102nd and Jasper Avenues; old Chinatown was located at 97th Street, between 105th and 108th Avenues and moved following re-development of the Edmonton LRT line

[edit] British Columbia

  • Nanaimo - Machleary Street, Pine Street (remnants burned to ground in 1960s)
  • Victoria - Fisgard Street, Oldest in Canada
  • Greater Vancouver
    • New Westminster's Chinatown - 8th & Columbia, destroyed in the city's Great Fire, 1898, and not rebuilt or resettled.
    • New Westminster Museum and Archives Chinatown Project
    • Burnaby - Kingsway Avenue, anchored by Crystal Mall. Usually referred to as Metrotown after the largest mall in the area. Not a historical Chinatown.
    • Richmond - No. 3 Road, a collection of modern Hong Kong immigrant-oriented shopping centres built in the 1980s and 1990s (Golden Village). Not a historical Chinatown.
      • Steveston - Part of the City of Richmond, once located around Moncton and Bayview Streets, burned down in the 1918 Steveston fire. Steveston is usually considered historically as a Japanese enclave, and was never referred to as Chinatown for that reason despite a Chinese presence.
    • Vancouver - Historic Chinatown on Pender Street and Main Street (Chinatown, Vancouver)

[edit] Manitoba

[edit] Ontario

Toronto Downtown Chinatown
Toronto Downtown Chinatown
  • Toronto (see Chinatown, Toronto) Originally at Dundas and Elizabeth streets before the construction of the current city hall and Nathan Phillips Square in the 1960s, now localized along Spadina Avenue between College and Queen Streets
    • Agincourt (Toronto, formerly Scarborough) - Various stretches of commercial plazas on several main thoroughfares, no clear boundaries shared with the Chinatown on Steeles Avenue to the north (see below)
    • "East Chinatown" - Gerrard Street East/between Broadview Avenue and Carlaw Avenue.
    • "Highway 7" - Various commercial plazas along Highway 7 between Bayview and Warden Avenues in Richmond Hill and Markham
    • Mississauga - Dundas Street and Tomken. This location is the only one in the Greater Toronto Area clearly marked with a Paifang
    • "Steeles Avenue" (Markham) - Between Esna Park Drive and McCowan Road, is generally accepted to be centered at Kennedy and Steeles Avenue by Market Village Mall, Pacific Mall, Splendid China Tower, Metro Square.
    • "Victoria Park Avenue" (Toronto, formerly North York and Scarborough) - Between McNicoll and Steeles Avenues, arguably its own entity or an extension of the Agincourt Chinatown or the one on Steeles Avenue

[edit] Quebec

Main article: Chinatown, Montreal
- Boulevard Saint-Laurent between Viger and René-Lévesque, and La Gauchetière between Saint-Dominique and the Palais des Congrès

[edit] Saskatchewan

[edit] Cuba

  • Havana, Cuba - Barrio Chino, includes many Chinese restaurants and Cuban-Chinese friendship societies

[edit] France

[edit] Greece

[edit] Hungary

[edit] India

[edit] Ireland

[edit] Israel

[edit] Indonesia

[edit] Italy

[edit] Japan

Chinatown, Yokohama
Chinatown, Yokohama

[edit] Malaysia

[edit] Mexico

[edit] Myanmar (Burma)

[edit] Nauru

[edit] The Netherlands

Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

[edit] New Zealand

[edit] Peru

[edit] Philippines

[edit] Portugal

  • Varziela Chinatown in Vila do Conde - Portuguese Chinatown.[1]
  • Entroncamento City of Chinese

[edit] Romania

[edit] Russia

[edit] Serbia

[edit] Singapore

[edit] South Africa

  • Johannesburg
    • Derrick Street, Cyrildene and also in and around Bruma. There are approximately 30 restaurants offering food from various areas in China and Taiwan. There are also lots of shops/supermarkets and street vendors selling fresh vegetables, seafood and street food.
    • Commissioner Street, CBD. This was Johannesburg's original Chinatown until it moved to Cyrildene in the 1990s. There are a few restaurants and a supermarket still here.
Yaowarat Road, Bangkok
Yaowarat Road, Bangkok

[edit] Thailand

[edit] United Arab Emirates

[edit] United Kingdom

Entry arch, Newcastle
Entry arch, Newcastle

[edit] England

[edit] Northern Ireland

[edit] Scotland

[edit] United States

[edit] California

Chinatown, San Francisco
Chinatown, San Francisco
Monterey Park, California
Monterey Park, California
  • Chico - existed around 1865 in the area of Flume Street between East Fifth and East Sixth, several blocks over and had a population of more than 500 Chinese. (Source: http://www.newsreview.com/chico/Content?oid=oid%3A6795)
  • Chinese Camp - Highway 49, old gold mining town of early Chinese residents and shops near Yosemite National Park
  • Eureka - destroyed in 1886
  • Fresno - defunct, but there are efforts to revitalize it (Source: http://www.fresno-chinatown.org/index.html)
  • Hanford - China Alley, between Green Street and White Street (Chinese buildings still standing, but not particularly culturally active)
  • Los Angeles - Broadway Avenue, Spring Street. (See Chinatown, Los Angeles.)
    • Alhambra - mixture of Chinese plazas and storefronts along Valley Boulevard from Fremont Avenue to New Avenue
    • Arcadia - strip malls along Baldwin Avenue, supermarkets on Duarte Avenue
    • Artesia - Pioneer Boulevard nearby the "Little India" community
    • Diamond Bar - some Chinese businesses on Grand Ave.
    • Hacienda Heights - Azusa Avenue and in neighboring City of Industry on Colima Road
    • Irvine - small handful of strip malls on Culver Drive geared towards Taiwanese
    • Monterey Park - combination of Chinese older storefronts and later strip malls (strong cluster of Chinese supermarkets, restaurants, stores, and professional offices) are found along the main business routes of Atlantic Boulevard, Garfield Avenue, Garvey Avenue
    • Rosemead - generally scattered Chinese retail along Garvey Avenue (arguably an extension of Chinese businesses in Monterey Park) and on Valley Blvd (possible extension of San Gabreil)
    • Rowland Heights - concentration on Colima Road and another cluster eastward around Nogales Avenue
    • San Gabriel - Valley Boulevard (from New Avenue to Delta Ave), mostly focused on San Gabriel Square anchored by 99 Ranch Market
    • San Marino - Huntington Dr
    • Temple City - Las Tunas Drive
    • Walnut - Chinese businesses on Grand Ave and Amar Rd
    • West Covina - Hong Kong Plaza (with Hong Kong Supermarket) filled with a variety of Asian retail and eateries on Glendora Ave.
  • Nevada City - defunct, but a cemetery remains
  • Oakland - Broadway, 7th Street, Harrison Avenue, 10th Street (See Chinatown, Oakland.)
    • Fremont - Little Taipei Plaza on Warm Springs Boulevard
    • San Antonio District - International Blvd, newer retail concentration pioneered by ethnic Chinese from Southeast Asia
  • Orange County
    • Garden Grove
    • Westminster - Not a "Chinatown" per se, but Bolsa Avenue's official “Little Saigon” also has many "Chinese" businesses and residents of Vietnamese-born Chinese immigrants. Ironically, although a Vietnamese community, this is the only location in Southern California outside Chinatown where a Chinese paifang leads to a shopping plaza.
  • Riverside - Brockton and Tequesquite (historic site - National Register of Historic Places)
  • Sacramento - 3rd, 5th, J, and I Streets
    • South Sacramento - Strip malls going up on Stockton Blvd with a range of newer combined Chinese and Vietnamese retail
    • Fiddleton - historic mining community which populated up to 5000 Chinese. The Chinese medicine store Chew Kee Store operates as a museum
    • Isleton - includes the preserved historic Bing Kung Tong Building
    • Locke - rural town including Locke Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
  • Salinas - defunct, soledad Street, Bing Kong Tong Chinese Free Masons building remains but the area is nowaadays a decrepit skid row
  • San Diego - historic Market and K Streets, 2nd and 5th Avenues near the Gas Lamp Quartet, re-themed as the Asian Pacific Historic Thematic District
    • Clairemont Mesa - small combined Chinese and Korean concentration on Convoy Street with 99 Ranch Market
  • San Francisco - Jackson Street, Stockton Avenue. (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
    • Milpitas - Barber Lane
    • 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, only the historique Ah Louis Store remains as a museum
  • 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

[edit] Colorado

  • Denver - old Chinatown in Hop Alley.

[edit] District of Columbia

Washington DC Chinatown
Washington DC Chinatown

[edit] Florida

  • Miami - NE 167th Street and 163rd Street, between NE 6th Avenue and NE 19th Avenue
  • Tampa - Waters and Armenia Avenues

[edit] Georgia

[edit] Hawaii

[edit] Idaho

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

[edit] Illinois

[edit] Maryland

[edit] Massachusetts

Boston Chinatown
Boston Chinatown

[edit] Michigan

  • Detroit - First Chinatown became extinct since the 1950s due to the construction of the John Lodge Freeway. Relocated Chinatown on Cass and Petersboro Avenue in the 1960s, but is now mostly abandoned with some Chinese facilities still remaining
  • Madison Heights - new "Chinatown" in the Detroit area within strip malls on John R. Road.

In addition, there is a larger Chinatown in nearby Windsor, Ontario, Canada across the Detroit/Windsor Bridge on Wyandotte Street West between the University of Windsor and Downtown.

[edit] Missouri

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

[edit] Montana

[edit] 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)

[edit] Nevada

  • Las Vegas - fairly incontigous collection of Asian commercial plazas along Spring Mountain Road, most distinctive is Chinatown Plaza (See Chinatown, Las Vegas.)

[edit] New Jersey

Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Sunset Park, Brooklyn

[edit] New York

There is also a Chinatown in nearby Edison, New Jersey

[edit] North Carolina

Charlotte's Asian Corner Mall
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.

[edit] Ohio

[edit] Oklahoma

  • Oklahoma City - roughly along N. Classen Blvd from N. 22nd Street to N. West 36th (See Asia District)
    • Satellite developments (mostly strip malls) in North West and South West city quadrants
    • 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. [2]

[edit] Oregon

[edit] Pennsylvania

Chinatown, Philadelphia
Chinatown, Philadelphia
  • Philadelphia - Cherry Street area (See Chinatown, Philadelphia)
    • Northeast Philadelphia - Adams Avenue and Roosevelt Blvd. (Hong Kong Supermarket area)
    • South Philadelphia - Washington Avenue and 10th Street (big Chinese/Vietnamese shopping center near Little Italy)
Old Pittsburgh Chinatown on Blvd. of the Allies
Old Pittsburgh Chinatown on Blvd. of the Allies
  • Pittsburgh -
    • Defunct old Chinatown around Blvd of the Allies and Grant Street (two Chinese restaurants still exist from the original Chinatown)
      • The original tenants in the old original Pittsburgh Chinatown included, all of which are gone today:
    • Most new Chinese stores are in Pittsburgh's "Strip District" on Penn Avenue and 18th Street
  • Harrisburg - Cameron Street

[edit] South Dakota

[edit] Tennessee

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

[edit] Texas

Chinatown, Houston
Chinatown, Houston
  • Houston - Chartres Street in Downtown (See Chinatown, Houston)
    • Bellaire (city of Houston) - Bellaire Boulevard and Beltway 8.
  • Dallas - no actual Chinatown in existence, although there are isolated Chinese/Vietnamese/Asian strip malls throughout the suburbs: Arlington, Garland, Richardson, and Plano.
    • Dallas - Hong Kong Supermarket at the corner of Walnut St. and Audelia Rd.
    • Garland - Chinese/Vietnamese stores located the following areas: along Walnut Street, between Jupiter Rd. and Audelia Rd.(in Dallas); corner of Buckingham Rd. and Shiloh Rd.; corner of Jupiter Rd. and Beltline Rd.
    • Plano - Coit Road and Park Road, Large Chinese Center at North Central Expressway(75) and Legacy Road.
    • Richardson - Chinese restaurants and shops around Polk Street between North Central Expressway(75) and Greenville Ave.; Greenville Ave. at Terrance Drive.
    • http://www.2002china.net/chinatowns/dallas/indexee.shtml
    • Arlington - Hong Kong Supermarket on Pioneer, near Cooper Street/New York Street.
  • Austin - prefabricated Chinatown Center on Lamar Boulevard, billed as Austin's "Chinatown" (new as of 2006) (Source: http://www.chinatownaustin.com/)

[edit] Utah

[edit] Virginia

[edit] Washington

Cholon, Ho Chi Minh City
Cholon, Ho Chi Minh City

[edit] Vietnam

[edit] See also


[edit] References

  1. ^ Correio da Manhã
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