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Monterey Park, California. Little Taipei (Chinese: 小臺北) was an informal name given to the city of Monterey Park, California, in the late 1970s because of the large immigrant population from Taiwan. [6] (Taipei is the capital city of Taiwan.) The city council had tried, and failed, to pass English-only sign ordinances, because of safety ...
Chinese miners were not present in California in a substantial manner at the beginning of the Gold Rush. The population of Chinese miners in California did not break 1,000 people until 1851 with 2,700 miners being counted in the census. In the years proceeding 1852, Chinese miner populations developed rapidly, moving to 20,000 miners in 1852.
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 ...
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.
Chinese settlers congregated around Los Angeles Plaza, the original settlement of the city of Los Angeles, not only to find a shared sense of community among shared language and culture, but to ...
On the Peninsula, there are many Chinese Americans in Daly City, San Mateo, San Bruno, and Foster City. Northern California and America at large's Chinese population largely originated in the Taishan area, with at least half of Chinese Americans in the 1980s reporting some or all Taishanese ancestry. Nearby cities such as Zhongshan had larger ...
In 1939, after attending the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, Alfred Chan and his friends were headed back home to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. “They got really hungry ...
In 2021, the author Lisa See, whose family has roots in Los Angeles’ Chinese-American community dating to the 19th century, donated a collection of glass-plate negatives of photos of Old Chinatown to the Huntington Museum in San Marino, California. The collection has been in her family since the 1940s; the exact source is unknown, someone ...