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The two-week Chinese New Year Festival and Parade, [86] sponsored by Southwest Airlines in recent years, includes two fairs, the Chinese New Year Flower Fair and Chinatown Community Street Fair, the Miss Chinatown USA pageant, and concludes with the parade. Miss Chinatown USA is traditionally present at the parade, as is a Golden Dragon which ...
On January 21, 2023, a mass shooting occurred in Monterey Park, California, United States.The gunman killed eleven people and injured nine others. [16] The shooting happened at about 10:22 p.m. PST at Star Ballroom Dance Studio, after an all-day Lunar New Year Festival was held on a nearby street.
Karen Li, Miss Chinatown U.S.A. 2014 [16] In 1958, the pageant was opened to seventeen competitors from around the United States and the first winner was June Gong, [17]: 216 a 21-year old originally from Miami who previously had won the 1957 Miss New York Chinatown pageant and was runner-up for the 1957 Miss New Hampshire title.
The original temple was built in 1852 by Chinese goldminers during the California gold rush. [2] [3] [4]The current building, called The Temple among the Trees Beneath the Clouds (雲林廟), was built in 1874 to replace earlier structures which had been destroyed by fires the year previous.
Signed into law in 2022, and effective 2023, California declared Lunar New Year a state government holiday. [173] ... Chinese New Year 2014 Celebration in Kolkata.
The Chinese moved to California in large numbers during the California Gold Rush, with 40,400 being recorded as arriving from 1851 to 1860, and again in the 1860s when the Central Pacific Railroad recruited large labor gangs, many on five-year contracts, to build its portion of the transcontinental railroad. The Chinese laborers worked out well ...
The Chinese owner of an unauthorized central California lab that fueled conspiracy theories about China and biological weapons has been arrested on charges of not obtaining the proper permits to ...
San Francisco is 21.4% Chinese, and the San Francisco Bay Area is 8% Chinese. Many of the Chinese Americans are Cantonese-speaking immigrants or descendants from Guangdong province and Hong Kong. There are also many Taiwanese and mainland Chinese immigrants in the Silicon Valley area. The Bay Area in general is 8-9% Chinese.