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2. Chinatowns in Asia - Wikipedia

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   The best-known Chinatown in the Philippines is the district of Binondo in Manila. Binondo is the oldest Chinatown in the world, having been established in 1594, [18] when the Spanish colonial government of the Philippine islands restricted the residence of Chinese who had converted to Christianity to this area. Unconverted Christians were ...

3. Chinatown - Wikipedia

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   Chinese presence in India dates back to the 5th century CE, with the first recorded Chinese settler in Calcutta named Young Atchew around 1780. [21] Chinatowns first appeared in the Indian cities of Kolkata, Mumbai, and Chennai. The Chinatown centered on Yaowarat Road in Bangkok, Thailand, was founded at the same time as the city itself, in ...

4. Lists of Chinatowns - Wikipedia

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   Chinatowns exist in many cities around the world. Lists of Chinatowns include: Chinatowns in Africa; Chinatowns in the Americas. Chinatowns in Canada; Chinatowns in Latin America and the Caribbean; Chinatowns in the United States; Chinatowns in Asia; Chinatowns in Europe; Chinatowns in Oceania. Chinatowns in Australia

5. ‘Chinatown,’ released 50 years ago, was inspired by some ...

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   In the 1974 film “Chinatown,” there’s deceit, deception and murder, as well as a timeless Los Angeles protagonist – water. Having debuted 50 years ago this week, “Chinatown” is set ...

6. Chinatowns in Europe - Wikipedia

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   The oldest Chinatown in Europe is in Liverpool, England. [2] It was established in the early 19th century when Liverpool began importing cotton and silk from Shanghai. In the 1910s, Mainland Chinese labourers from the Zhejiang province who remained in France established the first Chinatown of Paris.

7. History of Chinese immigration to the United Kingdom

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   Europe's first Chinatown was established in Liverpool in the 1860s, [3] with London's Chinatown in the Limehouse area following shortly after. The East India Company , which imported popular Chinese commodities such as tea, ceramics and silks, also brought Asian sailors and needed trustworthy intermediaries to arrange their care and lodgings ...

8. Ropewalks, Liverpool - Wikipedia

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   The location of the first Chinatown can, therefore, be traced to Liverpool's docklands. However, some sailors settled on Cleveland Square, Pitt Street and Frederick Street, thus creating a new Chinatown. After World War I, the Chinese population in Liverpool spread more inland to Cornwallis Street, Dickenson Street, Kent Street and Greetham ...

9. Cayetano Apablasa - Wikipedia

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   Cayetano Apablasa Blanco (or Apablaza; 1847–1889) was a 19th-century land owner and politician in Los Angeles, California.His holdings were on the south of the central Los Angeles Plaza, later the first site of the city's Chinatown and location of present-day Union Station.