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History. The first Chinese to enter Houston were 250 men coming in 1870 to do construction work. [2] The Daily Houston Telegraph, in January of that year, stated that 247 Chinese docked in Galveston and went onwards in the region. [3] The 1877 Houston City Directory listed three ethnic Chinese who worked in laundries, [4] and the 1880 United ...
Hanyu Pinyin. Zhōngguóchéng. Chinatown (Chinese : 華埠 or 中國城) is a community in Southwest Houston, Texas, United States. There is another Chinatown called "Old Chinatown" located within the East Downtown Houston district near the George R. Brown Convention Center.
In 2007 Houston had 16,000 Asian American businesses. A 2006 U.S. Census Bureau report stated that the annual revenues of those businesses totaled to $5.5 billion ($8312644437.11 in today's money). [18] By 2010 the number of Asian-Americans in Greater Houston was over 417,000. [19]
Greenway Plaza, the complex which contains the office Culture Center of TECO in Houston. The mission serves Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Oklahoma. [7] The office sponsors cultural exhibits such as the 2009 "Nation of Splendor: Taiwan, the Republic of China," which was hosted at 2 Allen Center in Downtown Houston. [8]
Forbidden Gardens (simplified Chinese: 紫禁花园; traditional Chinese: 紫禁花園 ) was an outdoor museum of Chinese culture and history located on Texas Highway 99 and Franz Road in northern Katy, Greater Houston, Texas, United States. The museum was funded and opened by businessman Ira Poon in 1996. [1] Forbidden Gardens closed its doors ...
Ethnicity in Texas. Texas has a Chinese American population. As of the 2010 U.S. census, it is 0.6% Chinese with over 150,000 living there. Many live in Plano, Houston, and Sugar Land. After May 1869, a group of Chinese workers in the Western United States began moving to Texas, as there was a demand for labor in the post- American Civil War ...
Location. Houston, Texas, United States. Coordinates. 29°43′13.9″N 95°23′13.5″W / 29.720528°N 95.387083°W / 29.720528; -95.387083. Confucius, also known as Bronze Statue of Confucius, Confucius Bronze Statue, Confucius Statue, and Great Confucius, [1] is an outdoor 2009 bronze sculpture of the Chinese editor, philosopher ...
Culture of Houston. Houston is a multicultural city with a thriving international community supported by the third largest concentration of consular offices in the United States, representing 86 nations. [1] In addition to historical Southeast Texas culture, Houston became the fourth-most populous city in the United States. [1]