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Chợ Lớn (listen ⓘ, Chinese: 堤岸), usually anglicized as "Cholon" in English sources, is a quarter of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It lies on the west bank of the Saigon River , having Bình Tây Market as its central market.
Since 1827, descendants of Ming dynasty refugees were called Minh nhân (明人) or Minh Hương (明 鄉) by Nguyễn rulers, to distinguish with ethnic Chinese. [196] Minh nhân were treated as Vietnamese since 1829. [197] [198]: 272 They were not allowed to go to China, and also not allowed to wear the Manchu queue. [199]