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	Chinatown, San Francisco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Often, unlike the traditional Cantonese-speaking Chinatowns in San Francisco or Oakland as populated by mostly old-timers, Mandarin Chinese is the lingua franca of these communities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinatown,_San_Francisco (2121 words)

	Chinatown \| The Story of Chinatown
		The story of Chinatown is the story of a neighborhood; an American neighborhood, an old neighborhood, an immigrant neighborhood, where the old country still lives inside the new one.
		Chinatown's twelve blocks of crowded wooden and brick houses, businesses, temples, family associations, rooming houses for the bachelor majority, (in 1880 the ratio of men to women was 20 to 1) opium dens, gambling halls was home to 22,000 people.
		The atmosphere of early Chinatown was bustling and noisy with brightly colored lanterns, three-cornered yellow silk pennants denoting restaurants, calligraphy on sign boards, flowing costumes, hair in queues and the sound of Cantonese dialects.
	www.kqed.org /w/hood/chinatown/resourceguide/story.html (1820 words)

	San Francisco Chinatown: Chinese in California
		Chinatown during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a vibrant and resilient community.
		Chinatown was centrally located on valuable real estate, a fact that contributed to many efforts to relocate the community or eradicate it all together.
		After 1906 earthquake and fire reduced Chinatown to smoldering ashes, there was a movement by the Reconstruction Committee to move the Chinese to the outer reaches of the Richmond district.
	bancroft.berkeley.edu /collections/chineseinca/sfchinatown.html (939 words)

	SF CHINATOWN GHOST TOURS - Call: (415) 793-1183, Toll Free: 1-877-887-3373
		San Francisco's Chinatown became an insular community with its own language and customs and a deep suspicion of outsiders.
		Among the outrageous rumors circulating was a story that the Chinese were harboring vampires in Chinatown as part of a plot to destroy the white population.
		But China's Empress Dowager, just before she died, made clear how much the United States' largest Chinatown already meant to China and the so-called "Oriental Trade." The Empress Cixi ordered her deputy ambassador in Washington to ride to San Francisco to pressure city fathers into letting Chinatown rebuild, right where it was.
	www.sfchinatownghosttours.com /oldctown.html (2173 words)

	Brief History of San Francisco’s Chinatown — 1931
		He began as a beat officer, and then served as a sergeant of the “Chinatown Squad.” He served as Chief of Police after the 1906 earthquake, retired, and was later appointed to the Police Commission.
		His police career began in San Antonio, Texas, and was a police officer in San Diego before he returned to San Francisco.
		Sacramento was known as the “second city,” or Yee Fow, and San Francisco had the Chinese name of Tie Fow, or “the big city.” America, that is the United States of America, was known as May Yee Kwock, or Ah May Yee Kah, also Fah Kay Kwock, meaning the flower flag country.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist9/cook.html (4084 words)

	Chinatown (San Francisco, CA) News
		The Golden Dragon may have roared its last, but the death of this notorious Chinatown restaurant -- the scene of a gang massacre in 1977 -- has left behind trail of lawsuits, and workers are complaining it...
		This week as the San Francisco City elites hold posh wine and cheese receptions and parties commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Great 1906 SF Earthquake and Fire, grassroots community groups and...
		San Francisco Police searched several Chinatown offices today in their investigation of the execution style murder of a Chinese community leader.
	www.topix.net /city/san-francisco-ca-chinatown (608 words)

	San Francisco Neighborhoods: Chinatown
		The reality of Chinatown is that there are two Chinatowns: One belongs to the locals, the other charms the tourists.
		Dive bars in Chinatown are small, dark and moody, with locals playing dice and visitors wandering in with curious looks on their faces.
		Chinatown, especially along Washington and Jackson Streets, is chock full of old-world herbalists, some of whom still use an abacus to add up your purchases.
	www.sfgate.com /traveler/guide/sf/neighborhoods/chinatown.shtml (4236 words)

	San Francisco Chinatown :: News
		San Francisco's Chinatown is the second largest in the U. San Francisco's Chinatown is the largest Chinese community on the West Coast, and the second largest Chinatown in the U. next to New York City's settlement.
		The heart of San Francisco’s Chinatown is one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in North America, with over 30,000 people living in twenty four square blocks.
		The Chinatown you see today was built after San Francisco's 1906 earthquake and its architecture is an odd mix of Edwardian fundamentals and Chinese details.
	www.2002china.net /chinatowns/sanfrancisco/viewhomee.shtml (755 words)

	San Francisco's Old Chinatown: Photographs by Arnold Genthe
		Chinatown, like most distinctive San Francisco neighborhoods at the turn of the century, was a mix of the Old World and the New, but at the same time was a thoroughly American entity.
		Chinatown was devastated in San Francisco's 1906 earthquake and fire.
		Chinatown was eventually rebuilt and repopulated, despite attempts of a handful of racist political leaders to relocate Chinatown to the Hunter's Point area or to do away with it altogether.
	www.tfaoi.com /newsmu/nmus5f.htm (952 words)

	Explorertour.com — Chinatown Evening Dinner Tour
		Chinatown is a beautiful and exciting neighborhood, filled with unique architecture, lights, life and traditions.
		You will hear the stories of Chinatown, Italian North Beach and the Old Barbary Coast some of the most beloved, fun-filled and wicked neighborhoods in San Francisco.
		From a guided walking tour of Chinatown, ending with a drive through several San Francisco 's neighborhoods you'll have an opportunity to view the San Francisco skyline from Treasure Island.
	www.explorertour.com /san-francisco-tours/chinatown-dinner-tours.htm (166 words)

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		San Francisco is looking into the power of dog doo (San Diego Union-Tribune)
		San Franciscans already recycle two-thirds of their garbage, but in this dog-friendly town, animal feces make up nearly 4 percent of residential waste, or 6,500 tons a year – nearly as much as disposable diapers, according to the city.
		Tracey Packer, interim HIV prevention director for the city of San Francisco, says she expects the city health department to request the same amount in HIV prevention dollars as it did the previous year, a reversal from annual calls for funding cuts during recent years, reports the Bay Area Reporter.
	san-francisco.info-dig.info /chinatownrestaurantsanfrancisco.aspx (125 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Murder of San Francisco Chinatown Community Leader a 'Complicated Case'
		According to an NTDTV interview with San Francisco police, Allen Leung, influential 56-year-old Chinatown Community leader, was shot to death on February 27 inside his import-export business, Wonkow International Enterprises, at the corner of Jackson Street and Kearny Street in Chinatown.
		Some in the Chinese community say that Leung had hoped to rid the San Francisco Chinese overseas association of the influence of the CCP and its representative Rose Pak and that he was in the process of organizing such a Chinese association.
		San Francisco is one of the largest cities in which Chinese people gather in North America.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/6-3-8/39064.html (1422 words)

	San Francisco Hotels in San Francisco : Chinatown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		San Francisco is host to the second largest Chinese community outside of Asia.
		The history of San Francisco’s Chinatown can be traced to the migration of Chinese laborers to the city after the completion of the transcontinental railroad, and the arrival of Chinese sailors keen to benefit from the Gold Rush.
		All in all Chinatown is worth a visit just for the experience of stepping into another world.
	www.san-francisco-hotels.bettervaluehotels.com /Chinatown.php (222 words)

	Chinatown San Francisco - Chinese Attraction Visitors Guide
		Chinatown became established in the mid 1800’s when there was a large boom in Chinese immigration to the United States.
		The powers that be at the time wanted to move the location of Chinatown so that area could be absorbed by the richer surrounding neighborhoods, but after much deliberation and debate, Chinatown was rebuilt in it’s original location.
		Chinatown is located in the heart of the city bordered by Kearny and the Financial District to the East, Powell Street and Nob Hill to the West, Columbus and North Beach the North and Bush and Union Square to the South.
	www.sftravel.com /china.html (1630 words)

	San Francisco Chinatown in a blackout
		San Francisco's Chinatown is a vibrant community of colorful streets and alleyways, strange smells and tacky souvenirs.
		Navigating around Chinatown is difficult with the streetlights taking the day off and the multitudes of vehicles and people clamoring about in chaotic bliss.
		I realize that tourists who seek the enchantment of Chinatown should do as I have done - wander about without the restrictions of an organized walking tour, and certainly without the confusion of my self-inflicted haphazard path.
	www.getlostmagazine.com /features/2000/0005chinatown/chinatown.html (1050 words)

	"Chinatown" San Francisco Photo Tour
		Chinatown Gate is located at the corner of Bush and Grant Street.
		The streets in Chinatown are all very narrow, I would not even attempt to take a car to this part of town, because you would never find a place to park.
		Chinatown can best be seen by walking around and looking into all the different shops.
	sfphototour.tripod.com /chinatown.html (397 words)

	America's Best Souvenir - Chinatown, San Francisco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"Chinatown - San Francisco" The picture of the Giant Panda makes me think of Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing, who were traded to the National Zoo in Washington for a couple of Wildebeasts from the San Francisco Zoo.
		Chinese New Year is usually near the end of January, and San Francisco has a huge parade through Chinatown that ends at Portsmouth Square.
		"Chinatown - San Francisco" The building shown is at the corner of California and Grant, the former site of the Chinatown Wax Museum, the present site of the Chinatown McDonald's.
	www.anythreewords.com /pennies/sf2.html (769 words)

	The Epoch Times \| San Francisco Chinatown Leader's Death Reveals Complicated Political Situation
		San Francisco Chinatown community leader Allen Leung was murdered last week at his place of business, Wonkow International Enterprises.
		According to a report by the San Francisco Chronicle, a politician who wished to remain anonymous said that Chinatown used to be centered on Taiwan.
		Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, in an interview with Singtao Daily in 2001, when asked about Supervisor Chris Daly's failed resolution which condemned the persecution of Falun Gong, stated that, "Regarding these results, President Jiang was very happy.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/6-3-10/39110.html (1128 words)

	Depicting Otherness: Images of San Francisco's Chinatown
		"Chinatown's value lay in its being possessed at some future date." The earliest photographs, created during the 1860s, reflect that perspective, capturing the land and buildings of the quarter, not its Chinese immigrants.
		By the end of the century, San Franciscans could no longer ignore the permanence of the Chinese in San Francisco.
		Genthe and publishers were not alone in stereotyping Chinatown's residents and distancing them from American culture and citizenship.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/csj/101102/chinatown.shtml (742 words)

	Chinatown San Francisco Pictures and History
		San Francisco's Chinatown begins at the dragon-crested gate at Grant Avenue and Bush Street, a gift from the Republic of China in 1969.
		San Francisco’s oldest street—Grant Avenue—runs eight blocks through the center of America’s ethnic capital to over 1.5 million people of Chinese descent.
		The Story of Chinatown, from the first immigrants to re-building after the 1906 earthquake and fire and over coming racism, is detailed on this KQED web site.
	www.inetours.com /Pages/SFNbrhds/Chinatown.html (545 words)

	San Francisco Chinatown :: Play
		San Francisco's Chinatown is the largest Chinatown in North-America, but it is also the most commercial.
		Unlike the Chinatowns in Vancouver or New York, San Francisco's Chinatown is in some areas filled with tourist shops.
		Chinatown also has several temples; three of them are located in the Waverly Place, which is also known as the 'street of painted balconies'.
	www.2002china.net /chinatowns/sanfrancisco/playhomee.shtml (298 words)

	Grant Avenue, Chinatown, San Francisco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is a street scene of the instersection Grant Avenue and Broadway Street, the main drag of San Francisco's Chinatown.
		This is the intersection of Grant Avenue and Broadway Street in SF Chinatown.
		Chinatown nowadays does not necessarily mean the area bound by Stockton Street, Bush Street, Broadway Street and Kearny Street.
	www.atowngraphics.com /exploringct/19.html (434 words)

	Celebration of the Chinese New Year
		The Chinse New Year celebration in San Francisco Chinatown and other Chinese American communitites should not be interpreted as direct transplants of Chinese culture.
		The first point to be noticed in comparing the Chinatown celebrations of today to that described in the preceeding section is that they have been shortened or simplified.
		The Chinatown parade is a bend of typical American marching parades and the traditional Lantern Festival.
	www.c-c-c.org /chineseculture/festival/newyear/newyear.html (2104 words)

	San Francisco Chinatown
		From the Gold Rush through the 1870s, a large migration of mostly single male laborers came to San Francisco and the American West, as well as to Canada and Peru.
		In 1965, the Civil Rights Act was passed and the United States began to break through the psychological and legal barriers of its historic racial antipathies and to put a positive spin on the reality of its multiracial society.
		Today, Chinatown is one of the densest neighborhoods in the nation with some 160 people per acre: second only to New York City's Chinatown.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h2715.html (716 words)

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		By mutual agreement between China and the United States, a small quota of merchants and students was allowed to immigrate yearly, but few legal immigrants actually were of these professions, and illegal immigration continued.
		One of the San Francisco residences for new arrivals was located at 830/832 Washington Street, the general location from which the arrest party ascends at the start of the film.
		Chinatown at this time was plagued with warfare between various tongs (gang associations of rootless and under-enfranchised immigrants and non-family members).
	hdl.loc.gov /loc.mbrsmi/lcmp003.m3a15145 (513 words)

	Historic Chinatown in San Francisco, California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In February, enjoy an affordable SF Bay hotel near Chinatown and see one of San Francisco, California’s biggest celebrations: The Chinese New Year includes food, flowers, firecrackers, street fairs and a parade.
		Oldest Buddhist Temple in San Francisco with an altar made of wood imported from China.
		Chinatown can be reached by Cable Car (Powell-Hyde and Powell-Mason lines) or by BART (to Downtown SF, Powell Street Station) with a transfer to buses 30 Stockton or 45 Union-Stockton.
	www.sfbayhotels.com /chinatown.htm (324 words)

	Early San Francisco Chinatown
		This early Chinatown occupied only a few blocks around Portsmouth Square, but by 1890 it became the largest Chinatown in North America.
		The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake devastated Chinatown, and many of the survivors fled to other parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, but about 500 out of 5,000 remained.
		A handful of city planners and local politians considered the earthquake both an opportunity and a great blessing to be rid of the Chinese in a prime real estate area, and move them to Hunters Point.
	www.pandanet.co.jp /English/art/sfchinatown/sfchinatown.html (281 words)

	Chinatown - San Francisco - May 1-5, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As you pass through the dragon-adorned Pagoda Gates on Grant Avenue at Bush Street, your senses will be tempted by the aroma of ethnic cuisine, bright neon and the sound of foreign languages.
		The heart of Chinatown is Portsmouth Square where San Francisco’s first Chinese immigrants settled in the 1850s.
		Today, Chinatown is home to more than 10,000 of San Francisco’s Chinese residents.
	www.absolutekreations.com /andikatz/photoalbums/sanfrancisco/chinatown.htm (111 words)

	Chinatown, San Francisco
		The largest Chinese city outside Asia is in San Francisco on Grant Avenue between Bush Street and Columbus Avenue.
		Almost completely destroyed in the 1906 earthquake, Chinatown was rebuilt entirely in the Chinese style and was soon even more attractive than before the disaster.
		Now with its temples, theaters, workshops, small businesses, stores, antique and souvenir shops, teahouses and pharmacies with their old nostrums, Chinatown has become one of the major sites of San Francisco.
	www.planetware.com /san-francisco/chinatown-us-ca-sfct.htm (200 words)

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