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The Quartier Asiatique is the largest Chinatown in Europe, and unlike the diminutive but well-known Chinese district around Gerrard Street in London's Soho, it represents a significant population center as the result of very considerable immigration. The area is populated by nearly 50,000 people, largely of Chinese, Vietnamese and Laotian descent.
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.
The Olympiades towers with the pagoda roof shopping centre, Olympiades Chinatown, Paris. As of 1990, the majority of Asians living in the Paris area were ethnic Chinese originating from several countries. [1] As of 1998 the largest group included ethnic Chinese from Indochina, and a smaller group originated from Zhejiang. [2]
A foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics. 2 An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An ...
In Francophone regions (such as France and Quebec), Chinatown is often referred to as le quartier chinois (the Chinese Neighbourhood; plural: les quartiers chinois). The most prominent Francophone Chinatowns are located in Paris and Montreal. The Vietnamese term for Chinatown is Khu người Hoa (Chinese district) or phố Tàu (Chinese street ...
The first record of a Chinese man in France is Shen Fo-tsung in 1684, and soon after Arcade Huang, also known as Huang Jialüe (1679-1716).He was brought back by Jesuit missionaries to the Versailles court of Louis XIV, the Sun King in the late 17th century, and oversaw a collection of manuscripts sent as a gift from the Kangxi Emperor of Qing China.
The esplanade of Les Olympiades, with Paris's Chinatown at the far southern edge. Les Olympiades (French pronunciation: [lez‿ɔlɛ̃pjad]) is a district of residential towers located in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. Built from 1969 to 1974, the district consists of a dozen towers built along a huge esplanade, elevated eight metres ...
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