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	Chinatown, Oakland, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chinatown is located in downtown Oakland, with its center at 8th and Webster st. Its northern edge is 14th street, and its southern edge is I-880 (located appoximately at 6th street).
		Oakland Chinatown was economically stagnant for many years, especially after multigenerational Chinatown residents began heading to the suburbs in the late 1960s.
		Chinatown is located in Downtown between Broadway to the west, Interstate 880 to the south, Oak Street and Laney College to the east, and 12th Street to the north.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinatown,_Oakland,_California (2324 words)

	Oakland travel guide - Wikitravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Oakland [1] is a city in the Bay Area of California in the United States of America.
		Oakland is above all a sprawling city of contrasts -- from the hard-pressed, working-class neighborhoods of West Oakland, to the affluent hillside retreats the Oakland Hills.
		Oakland is served by the regional rail system Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and the nationwide, long-distance rail service Amtrak, with the Bay Area's largest Amtrak station located in the neighboring city of Emeryville.
	wikitravel.org /en/Oakland (5505 words)

	Arcadia Publishing - News Room Article
		"Oakland's Chinatown," a pictorial history by writer and journalist William Wong, places the author's old neighborhood firmly outside the shadow of San Francisco's fabled Chinese quarter and underlines its independent role in the development of the Bay Area and the West.
		Oakland's Chinese began to assimilate into American life in the mid-20th century, with the growth of schools, social organizations and churches.
		The churches of Chinatown played an especially important role, as Wong highlights in a photo of Episcopal Deaconess Emma Drant watching her flock of children at the True Sunshine Mission in the early 1900s and a portrait of the Rev. Edward Lee, the first American-born Chinese to become a Methodist minister.
	www.arcadiapublishing.com /news_article.html?id=18 (1158 words)

	VIA Online: Oakland, California: A Weekend Getaway
		But the most stunning example of Oakland architecture may be the gilded, mosaicked, and ornamented Paramount Theatre, which still hosts such big-name entertainers as James Brown and Ray Charles.
		The waterfront south of Chinatown is where local boy Jack London once boozed and brawled before setting out on the exploits that inspired The Call of the Wild.
		To the east, Oakland's residential area gives way to slopes dotted with redwoods and the oak trees that gave the city its name.
	www.viamagazine.com /weekenders/oakland00.asp (1175 words)

	Oakland Chinatown Photo History Book
		Oakland’s Chinatown has a history in every way as compelling as its more famous neighbor across San Francisco Bay.
		Oakland Chinatown today, a point of origin for many Chinese families, is an economic star among Oakland neighborhoods.
		Although important images in Images of America: Oakland’s Chinatown emanate from public collections including the Oakland Museum of California and the Oakland Public Library, most of the priceless historic photos in this volume are drawn from the private collections of dozens of families and Chinatown-based organizations.
	www.oaklandchinatownhistory.org /book.html (252 words)

	SF Gate: Bay Area Traveler: East Bay Neighborhoods: Downtown Oakland
		Downtown Oakland is an ever-shifting interaction between past, present and future, where city blocks representing the small-scale, brick-and-wood past float among glass office and hotel towers.
		The single biggest influence on Oakland's downtown remains the city's African American community, which has managed to hold its ground in the face of the continual churning of the Oakland economy.
		Its current incarnation, designed by Hood and reopened in 1999, includes tables for the chess and checker players, benches for lunchtime office visitors, and restrooms that welcome the homeless regulars (neighborhood advocates insisted that no one be excluded from using the square).
	www.sfgate.com /traveler/guide/eastbay/neighborhoods/oakland.shtml (3397 words)

	OPL Wins California Stories Award
		OAKLAND, CA - The Oakland Public Library is pleased to announce receipt of a California Council for Humanities California Stories: California Story Fund Award for an oral history project on the pre-World War II generation of Oakland Chinese Americans.
		He will also be making public presentations of his findings at Oakland Public Library facilities later next year in consultation with Dr. Judy Yung, American Studies professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and two community historians, Janet Lem and Darlene Lee, also natives of Oakland's Chinatown.
		The "Reclaimed Stories: Chinatown, Oakland CA" is made possible, in part, by a grant from the California Council of the Humanities as part of the Council's statewide California Stories Initiative.
	www.oaklandlibrary.org /PR/pr081904calStories.html (463 words)

	Office & Retail Space For Lease - City Center Oakland, California - Shorenstein
		Oakland's Chinatown is a thriving cultural and retail center dating back to the 1800s when immigrant gold miners first settled in the vicinity of 8th and Webster streets.
		Chinatown, which sits in the heart of the city between City Center and Jack London Square, is also a thriving shopping hub when it comes to fresh produce, meats, jewelry, clothing, home decor and many other items.
		At the beginning of the 20th century, renowned author Jack London adopted this lively area as his "stomping grounds." The cabin where London lived during the Yukon Gold Rush in 1897 was moved to Jack London Square in 1970 and stands near the water today as an historic attraction.
	www.oaklandcitycenter.com /neighborhood.html (348 words)

	Chinatown in Hunters Point?
		The only report came from a member of the relocation subcommittee, who reported that the Chinese had made it clear that they had no authority to enter into an agreement, and that they were very happy with the treatment of their people.
		The chairman suggested that Chinatown's streets be widened and its blind alleys closed up, so that if the Chinese did return there, as he believed they had a right to do, conditions would be as good as possible under municipal regulations.
		Chinese leaders in San Francisco and Washington traveled to Oakland to meet with that city's mayor and the governor to decide whether a Chinatown might be part of Oakland's future.
	www.winternet.com /~rwhenn/quake.htm (2539 words)

	AsianWeek: Oakland Chinatown Enjoying Renaissance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Oakland’s Chinatown, the city’s third largest shopping area in terms of sales tax revenue, hopes that a planned business-hotel complex will help it hold on to its attraction amid growing competition from suburban Asian-themed malls and superstores.
		The city’s Community and Economic Development Agency has worked with the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce and other community groups to make sure that the neighborhood, settled more than a century ago by immigrant miners, continues its upward track after the citywide malaise of the ‘80s and early ‘90s.
		“Unlike Chinatowns across the U.S., which are usually located in the worst part of cities and are not easy to find, Oakland Chinatown has accessibility and visibility,” she said.
	www.asianweek.com /090299/bay_oaklandchinatown.html (567 words)

	Chinatown, San Francisco, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chinatown has been experiencing some decline over the years due to the cropping up of newer Chinatown communities in the Richmond and Sunset Districts of San Francisco, and possibly from the revitalization of Oakland's Chinatown only 10 miles away — and from the development of Asian shopping centers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
		San Francisco's Chinatown was the port of entry for early Taishanese and Zhongshanese Chinese immigrants from the southern Guangdong province of China from the 1850s to the 1900s.
		San Francisco's Chinatown is home to the well-known and historic Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (known as the Chinese Six Companies), which is the umbrella organization for local Chinese family and regional associations in Chinatown.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinatown,_San_Francisco (2332 words)

	AsianWeek.com: Bay News: Oakland’s Chinatown Fights for Pedestrian Safety (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Oakland residents are concerned that this development may force increased numbers of Alameda commuters to use the Posey Tube as a connector to Highway 880.
		If the city goes forth with the development project, Oakland’s Chinatown pedestrians — a third of who are 65 years and older, and many of whose main mode of transportation is walking — may bear the brunt of congested streets from vehicular traffic.
		The city of Oakland is currently in negotiations with the city of Alameda.
	www.asianweek.com /2002_03_08/bay_oakchinatown.html (698 words)

	Membership Services
		With over 24% of Oakland Chinatown's residents 65 years of age and over, senior pedestrians no longer find themselves stranded in the middle of an intersection, unable to reach the other side of the street in time before the light changes.
		Oakland Chinatown has the highest concentration of pedestrian and vehicle collisions in the City of Oakland.
		Oakland Chinatown has the highest concentration of vehicle and pedestrian accidents in the City of Oakland.
	www.ahschc.org /safety.htm (453 words)

	mandarin
		Oakland’s Chinatown was settled more than a century ago by immigrant miners who came mainly from Canton province.
		Cantonese dominance in Chinatown is also due to Chinese government’s constraints on allowing students or business travelers to go abroad until China implemented an open policy in the late 1970s.
		Lily Hu, a Mandarin-speaking immigrant from Taiwan who moved to Oakland’s Chinatown 15 years ago, said living in the community during those years forced her to learn Cantonese.
	journalism.berkeley.edu /projects/gorneyj200/mandarin.html (1221 words)

	Chinatown \| Inteview with Felicia Lowe
		I knew that San Francisco's Chinatown was called 'dai fau," which means "big city." As a child, I remember, it was big, exciting, and yes, it was inscrutable.
		So Chinatown became the fortress, its own world - the people re-created their own American within those crowded blocks where there was no choice but to survive on their own.
		Lowe: San Francisco's Chinatown was the first foothold of Chinese in the United States and still a cultural touchstone.
	www.pbs.org /kqed/chinatown/ctinterview.html (738 words)

	City News Article - City of Alameda California
		The commitments not to pursue legal challenges to development in both Alameda and Oakland establish a new, cooperative working relationship that focuses on solutions rather than lawsuits between the cities of Alameda and Oakland.
		The three entities, Alameda, Oakland, and the Chinatown community, will also establish an advisory committee to study and advise Oakland and Alameda on environmental review issues relating to projects within Alameda Point and downtown Oakland.
		Members of the Chinatown community lauded the agreement for resolving traffic and safety issues in the Chinatown community.
	www.ci.alameda.ca.us /news/news.html?id=040409_transportation_agreement (488 words)

	Chinatown, Oakland 1869
		Chinese Americans were among the city's residents when Oakland became a city in 1852, and would remain its largest racial minority for most of the next century.
		The completion of the railroad in 1869 brought a new influx of men to Oakland looking for ways to earn a living.
		A large and bustling Chinatown emerged in the heart of downtown Oakland, where exclusionary laws passed in the first decades of California statehood required Chinese Americans to live.
	www.oaklandlibrary.org /AboutOakland/OaklandHistoryPhotos/Chinatown.htm (77 words)

	North Gate News Online :: In Oakland's Chinatown, a Davis Stronghold Votes in Two Languages
		OAKLAND -- In a polling place in the densely populated 15 square blocks that make up Oakland's Chinatown, 81-year-old Yue Tong Lu gazed at the electronic version of the Chinese-language ballot.
		Dozens of Chinese American voters with limited English skills came to polling places in Chinatown this morning to cast their votes against the recall of Gov. Gray Davis.
		In each of the two polling places in the center of Oakland's Chinatown, there were a handful of Chinese poll workers offering assistance in Cantonese and Mandarin to voters.
	journalism.berkeley.edu /ngno/stories/001197.html (776 words)

	Chinatown
		Unlike San Francisco's Chinatown, where streets are packed with tourists dodging rack after rack of postcards when they're not looking for a parking space, Oakland's Chinatown seems somehow more accessible, more genuine.
		It's one of many family associations in Chinatown that originally helped immigrants find jobs and even spouses, back when fancy tiles were carved of ivory.
		Oakland's Chinatown is the most fun and authentic of the American Chinatowns we have been to.
	www.alamedaapartments.com /chinatown.htm (1211 words)

	Oakland Chinatown Chamber Of Commerce- News: Small Business Forum
		Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce was recently honored by PG&E for its outstanding work in community service and for its continuing work in the economic development of the Oakland Chinatown area with a $5000 "Community Impact Award."
		However, this past weekend there was a change of pace as the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce and Citibank partnered with the Equal Access Office to offer Oakland's first ever Cantonese Speaking Micro Enterprise Forum.
		Representatives from the Oakland Financial Management Agency's Revenue Division and the Oakland Community Economic Development Agency were among the professionals giving advice that day.
	www.oaklandchinatownchamber.org /news/forum.html (372 words)

	Oakland CEDA - Downtown Oakland
		Working from existing anchors Sears, Oakland Ice Center and the famed Paramount Theatre, the vision is to combine new arts, theater, restaurants, cafes, book stores, housing and retail in an urban setting with the area's magnificent Art Deco facades providing the backdrop and theme.
		Throughout Oakland's history, Chinatown has maintained one of the strongest local economies in the city.
		In the 1870s, it was the bustling heart of town, with block after block of grand hotels accommodating travelers arriving at the western terminus of the first transcontinental railroad.
	www.business2oakland.com /main/itemneighborhooddevelopmentareas_000.htm (707 words)

	Pedestrian scramble evaluation
		Oakland's Chinatown has historically had the highest concentration of pedestrian/vehicle collisions in the city.
		With over 24% of Oakland Chinatown's residents 65+ years of age, they found that the time given to pedestrians to cross major intersections in Chinatown failed to meet walking speeds recommended for the elderly.
		With the cooperation and support of the Oakland's Traffic Engineering Department, Asian Health Services installed a pedestrian scramble device at the intersection of Webster and 8th Streets, giving pedestrians an exclusive walk phase for crossing that intersection on the diagonal as well as the traditional crosswalks.
	www.tsc.berkeley.edu /html/res_PS_scramble.html (374 words)

	Chinese Presbyterian Church Home Page
		The Chinese Presbyterian Church (CPC) of Oakland is one of the oldest Asian churches established in Oakland's Chinatown, east of San Francisco Bay.
		In 1878, a Presbyterian missionary, Dr. Condit, helped members of the Bible study group organize the CPC of Oakland, along with the Reverend Hui Kan, who was one of the original 13 founders of our church.
		The CPC of Oakland has relied upon its history and participation of its members to outreach and provide services for members, friends and the local community.
	oaklandcpc.presbychurch.org (430 words)

	Orchestra sprung from Chinatown Oakland Tribune - Find Articles
		William, Nellie and Li Keng are Oakland Chinatown natives who come from a family of artists, teachers, activists and writers.
		The Wong siblings think their father first came to the United States in 1912 as a paper son, a method of forging documents commonly used at the time for Chinese to gain entry into the United States because of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
		Oakland Chinatown, original music by Anthony Browns Asian American Orchestra and stories by William Wong, Nellie Wong and Li Keng Wong takes place at 2 p.m.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20060512/ai_n16371077 (541 words)

	"100 Families Oakland: Art & Social Change" Chinatown Exhibition on view August 27–September 21 - California ...
		One hundred families from four Oakland neighborhoods (East Oakland, Chinatown, Fruitvale and West Oakland) are participating in the yearlong project in which they partake in a 10-week art workshop to create paintings, drawings and sculptures centered on the theme of family.
		The purpose is to demonstrate and celebrate the power of families, the creative spirit of Oakland and how art can connect families to families, families to neighborhoods and neighborhoods to neighborhoods.
		Oakland families who would like to participate in 100 Families Oakland in West Oakland should contact the CCA Center for Art and Public Life at (510) 594-3763.
	www.cca.edu /about/press/2005/100familiesctupdate (824 words)

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