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	Chinatown patterns in North America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Traditionally, the older Chinatowns tended to be separate communities apart from the rest of American society and contained strong internal institutions such as the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association in New York City and the Six Companies in San Francisco.
		An old-timer passes by a market in Chinatown, San Francisco, still undoubtedly the largest in the U.S. The tourism industry of Chinatowns has become a major source of revenue since the 1920s, and therefore, many businesses are ever reliant on the Chinese cuisine restauarants to draw in customers of all ethnicities.
		In newer Chinatowns, there are significant numbers of supporters of Taiwan independence who were estranged from the Republic of China government before the 1990s but who have been drawn much closer since the mid-1990s as the government on Taiwan has become more localized.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinatown_patterns_in_North_America (5529 words)

	Chinatowns in North America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		To the north of the city of Toronto, Markham and Richmond Hill, Ontario are noted for their large concentration of Chinese strip malls; in 2001, 30 percent of Markham's population, or 62,355 people, was of Chinese descent.
		Chinatown is home to several family and regional associations and general service organizations for old-timer immigrants (called in Cantonese lo wal cue) as well as ones founded by and for the new immigrants from Southeast Asia.
		Chinatown is on Payne Avenue in the downtown area known as the Quadrangle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinatowns_in_North_America (9919 words)

	chinatown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Chinatowns were formed in the 19th century in many areas of the United States and Canada as a result of discriminatory land laws which forbade the sale of any land to Chinese or restricted the land sales to a limited geographical area and which promoted the segregation of people of different ethnicities.
		In the past, overcrowded Chinatowns in urban areas were shunned by the general non-Chinese public as ethnic ghettoes, and therefore seen as places of vice and cultural insularism where "unassimilable foreigners" congregated.
		Chinatown grocers and markets are often characterized by sidewalk vegetable and fruit stalls – a quintessential image of Chinatowns – and also sell a variety of grocery items imported from East Asia (chiefly Mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea) and Southeast Asia (principally Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia).
	www.china-101.net /chinatown.html (2837 words)

	Chinatown Introduction: a Tale of Four Cities
		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.
		During the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, when tong wars erupted frequently and Chinatown was a jungle where the st4rong preyed on the weak and unprotected, many larger clan associations organized into two branches.
		Chinatown ought to be a landmark San Francisco Historic District, but it is not one.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronbooks/archive/travel/sfultimate/chinatownhistory.DTL&type=printable (3045 words)

	Chinatown-online.com
		In one sense, the existence of Chinatowns has positive effects: they provide living facilities and survival protection for the Chinese immigrants; and in another sense, their existence can be seen as negative: they close Chinese off from communication with the outside world and limit their interethnic interaction.
		The number of Chinatowns in the United States decreased before the 1950s (according to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, there were twenty-eight Chinatowns in 1940 and sixteen in 1955).
		This concentrated residential pattern of the Chinese Americans is one of the important reasons why the Chinese have not lost themselves entirely within their American surroundings after so many generations and why Chinese as a minority language has survived for hundreds of years.
	www.chinatown-online.com /publication/english/maintenance.shtml (5930 words)

	Romanian Club
		Cultures that enjoyed the comfort of a long tradition, as well as cultures that had recently emerged in the aftermath of the collapse of multinational empires discovered the need of examining their identity; inventing various types of otherness was part of this sometimes unpleasant process.
		The reception of America in the Romanian literary press during the aforementioned period shows that the so-called "oppositional" representations are entirely consistent with the mechanisms I discussed above.
		America thus turned into a menace, an outburst of detached capitalism, which stifled the humane and the sensitive.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/romanian/articles/article_america.html (3783 words)

	Chinatown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Chinatowns were formed in the 19th century in many areas of the United States and Canada as a result of discriminatory land laws that forbade the sale of any land to Chinese or restricted the land sales to a limited geographical area and which promoted the segregation of people of different ethnicities.
		In the past, overcrowded Chinatowns in urban areas were shunned by the general non-Chinese public as ethnic ghettos, and seen as places of vice and cultural insularism where "unassimilable foreigners" congregated.
		London's original Chinatown was established in the Limehouse district in the late 19th century as Chinese seamen established themselves in the city.
	www.kopete.org /Chinatown.html (3751 words)

	New York City Chinatown > Bookstore > Chinatown Studies
		She chronicles the many accomplishments in America of Chinese immigrants and their descendents: building the infrastructure of their adopted country, fighting racist and exclusionary laws, walking the racial tightrope between fl and white, contributing to major scientific and technological advances, expanding the literary canon, and influencing the way we think about racial and ethnic groups.
		In The New Chinatown, Peter Kwong goes beyond the headlines in a compelling and detailed account of the political and cultural isolation of Chinese-American communities.
		He also notes that the contrasting ethnic economies of the Italians and the Chinese determined residential patterns, receptivity to union membership, and whether kin and regional ties declined or not.
	www.nychinatown.org /bookstore/index2.html (2352 words)

	Lectures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Early 20th century Chicagoans were among the earliest Americans to appreciate cultural significance and beauty in the arts of China, Korea, and Japan.
		The Foundation was established in 1966 by a woman, Venerable Master Cheng Yen, together with a few other nuns. She brought the Tzu Chi Foundation to California in 1985, and began to set up branches in several major American cities. In 1993 Tzu Chi set one up in Downers Grove. Ms.
		Luyang Yang, who is an engineer, a member of the Chinatown Museum Foundation, and a serious tea drinker, introduced the speakers and served as the facilitator.
	www.chinatown-museum-foundation.org /Lectures.html (1641 words)

	Chinese Secret Society,Hung Society
		The styles referred to a certain set of organizational structures, carefully preserved traditions and patterns of behavior which their members were expected to follow.
		Among Chinese tongs in America, often one of the most important services to members was the way in which they would preserve the remains of their members and ensure that they received proper burial in China.
		Today, in most major North American cities which have a Chinatown it is possible to find the headquarters of the tongs, themselves branches of the Hung society.
	www.chinatownconnection.com /chinese-secret-society.htm (1424 words)

	Lesson Plans - Migration: A First-hand Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Have them consider historical (e.g., Africans brought to America for slavery) and current (e.g., refugees) examples, as well as situations that illustrate both voluntary (e.g., moving to another country to look for work) and forced (e.g., displacement by a natural disaster) migration.
		Using the the Atlas of the Human Journey, have students review some of the possible motivations people have had for migrating to different places in North America.
		Have students research migration patterns across the United States and North America and create maps similar to their community maps using a blank map from Xpeditions.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /xpeditions/lessons/09/g68/migrations.html (1473 words)

	Lesson Plans - Migration: Reasons to Move (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Locate North America on a map of the world Then ask students to look at the Atlas of the Human Journey which depicts when and where ancient humans moved around the world.
		As a class, guide students through each time period on the interactive map, and discuss how people did not move to North America until much later in history.
		Then ask students for some real world examples of things that have pushed or pulled people away from or to North America, as well as to and from places within North America.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /xpeditions/lessons/09/g35/Migrations.html (1771 words)

	Chinatown Vancouver bc canada tourism history heritage images pictures photographs
		Vancouver's Chinatown district, situated just east of the downtown area, is home to much of the city's history and heritage resources.
		In the beginning the Chinese population supplied a significant portion of the labour resources on which the growth of the city and province were based.
		During the 1980's and 1990's as new patterns of immigration emerged Chinatown was faced with losing its role as a geographic and cultural centre for the Chinese community.
	www.seechinatown.com (247 words)

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