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The Chinatown Handy Guide was one of the early Chinatown tour books published by a Chinese American author and recorded in the World Catalog. [1] It was published in four different geographic editions tailored to the largest established Chinatowns in America's biggest cities: [2] Chinatown Handy Guide New York, [3] Chinatown Handy Guide Chicago, [4] Chinatown Handy Guide San Francisco [5] and ...
For most of its history, Cleveland's Chinatown consisted of only one city block and contained several Chinese restaurants, laundries, and specialty stores. Initially, most Chinese in Cleveland lived in Chinatown to surround themselves with people of similar cultural beliefs and also to escape the animosity of Cleveland's other residents.
The book was published in San Francisco in softcover by City Lights. Architectural photographs in the book were taken in the 1980s by Brian Choy for a case report to nominate Chinatown as a historic district. [2]: 12 An earlier, abridged version was published as a pamphlet by the Chinese Historical Society of America. [3]
In an 1885 expulsion, the city of Eureka, Calif., put its Chinese residents on two ships and kept them out for seven decades. Now, the Eureka Chinatown Project tells the story.
Entrance to Victoria's Chinatown in British Columbia. Vancouver's Chinatown is the largest in Canada. [5] Dating back to the late 19th century, the main focus of the older Chinatown is Pender Street and Main Street in downtown Vancouver, which is also, along with Victoria's Chinatown, one of the oldest surviving Chinatowns in North America.
Las Vegas' Asian American population has grown more quickly than nearly any other population in the last few years. L.A.'s San Gabriel Valley played a part.
American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods, 2009 ISBN 978-1-4165-5723-4 Official website; Yung, Judy and the Chinese Historical Society San Francisco's Chinatown Images of America, Chinese Historical Society, 2006. ISBN 978-07385-3130-4; Ki Longfellow, China Blues, Eio Books 2012, ISBN 0-9759255-7-1; Barbassa, Juliana.
Kogetsu-Do has a long history in Fresno’s Chinatown. This picture from 1920 shows Sugimatsu Ikeda, grandfather, Sakino Ikeda, grandmother, and Roy Ikeda, uncle of its current owner, Lynn Ikeda.