A Chinatown is an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside Greater China,most often in an urban setting. Areas known as "Chinatown" exist throughout the world,including Europe,Asia,Africa,Oceania,and the Americas.
Chinatown is a neighbourhood in Vancouver,British Columbia,and is Canada's largest Chinatown. Centered around Pender Street,it is surrounded by Gastown to the north,the Downtown financial and central business districts to the west,the Georgia Viaduct and the False Creek inlet to the south,the Downtown Eastside and the remnant of old Japantown to the northeast,and the residential neighbourhood of Strathcona to the southeast.
Chinatown is an urban enclave situated in the southern part of the Sydney central business district,in New South Wales,Australia. It comprises the majority of the Haymarket suburb,between Central station and Darling Harbour. It is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney,and is Australia's largest Chinatown.
Urban Chinatowns exist in several major European cities. There is a Chinatown in London,England,as well as major Chinatowns in Manchester,Birmingham,Newcastle and Liverpool. In Paris there are two Chinatowns:one where many Vietnamese –specifically ethnic Chinese refugees from Vietnam –have settled in the Quartier chinois in the 13th arrondissement of Paris which is Europe's largest Chinatown,and the other in Belleville in the northeast of Paris. Berlin,Germany has two Chinatowns,one in the East and one in the West. Antwerp,Belgium also has an upstart Chinese community.
British Chinese are people of Chinese –particularly Han Chinese –ancestry who reside in the United Kingdom,constituting the second-largest group of Overseas Chinese in Western Europe after France.
Philadelphia Chinatown is a predominantly Asian American neighborhood in Center City,Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,United States. The Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation supports the area. The neighborhood stretches from Vine Street on the north;Arch Street on the south;North Franklin Street and North 7th Street on the east;to North Broad Street on the west.
Chinatown is an neighbourhood in Winnipeg,Manitoba,that was formed in 1909 and serves as an enclave of Chinese expatriates.
The Melbourne central business district is the city centre and main urban area of the city of Melbourne,Victoria,Australia,centred on the Hoddle Grid,the oldest part of the city laid out in 1837,and includes its fringes. The Melbourne CBD is located in the local government area of the City of Melbourne which also includes some of inner suburbs adjoining the CBD.
Wirral Waters is a large scale £4.5bn development currently being built by the Peel Group for Birkenhead,on the Wirral Peninsula,England. It is the sister programme of the Liverpool Waters project. Since 2012 the two projects have enjoyed enterprise zone status,together forming the Mersey Waters Enterprise Zone.
Chinatown in Manchester,England,is the second largest Chinatown in the United Kingdom and the third largest in Europe. Its archway was completed in 1987 on Faulkner Street in Manchester city centre,which contains Chinese restaurants,shops,bakeries and supermarkets.
The demography of Liverpool is officially analysed by the Office for National Statistics. The Liverpool City Region is made up of Liverpool alongside the Metropolitan Boroughs of Halton,Knowsley,Sefton,St Helens,and the Wirral. With a population of around 496,784,Liverpool is the largest settlement in the region and the sixth largest in the United Kingdom.
Shanghai Tower is a proposed 50-storey skyscraper,to be built as part of the multibillion-pound Liverpool Waters development in Liverpool,England. The proposal pays homage to Shanghai in China,which is a sister city of Liverpool. As of 2017 Shanghai tower was not included in the scheme central docks master plan.
Liverpool city centre is the commercial,cultural,financial and historical centre of Liverpool and the Liverpool City Region,England. Different definitions of the city centre exist for urban planning and local government,however,the border of Liverpool city centre is broadly marked by the inner city districts of Vauxhall,Everton,Edge Hill,Kensington and Toxteth.
A Chinese restaurant is a restaurant that serves Chinese cuisine. Most of them are in the Cantonese style,due to the history of the Chinese diaspora,though other regional cuisines such as Sichuan cuisine and Hakka cuisine are also common. Many Chinese restaurants may adapt their cuisine to fit local taste preferences,as in British Chinese cuisine and American Chinese cuisine. Some Chinese restaurants may also serve other Asian cuisines in their menus,such as Japanese,Korean,Indonesian,or Thai cuisines,though their selection is often limited and minimal compared to Chinese dishes.
Chinatowns are enclaves of Chinese people outside of China. The first Chinatown in the United States was San Francisco's Chinatown in 1848,and many other Chinatowns were established in the 19th century by the Chinese diaspora on the West Coast. By 1875,Chinatowns had emerged in eastern cities such as New York City,Boston,and Philadelphia. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 barred Chinese immigration to the United States,but the Magnuson Act of 1943 repealed it,and the population of Chinatowns began to rise again. In the 2010s,the downturn in the U.S. economy caused many Chinese Americans to return to China.
Chinese immigrants to the United Kingdom currently has more than 400,000,around 0.7% of the United Kingdom population. The first notable Chinese known to visit Britain was Michael Alphonsius Shen Fu-tsung in 1687,who travelled to Europe with a Belgian Jesuit Father Philippe Couplet. Shen helped to translate Chinese works at the Bodleian Library,University of Oxford. He and Couplet left in 1688.
Otterspool Tower is a name commonly given to a supertall skyscraper that was proposed in Liverpool,United Kingdom. Developers,Wiggins Group,first touted the idea in 1995 before moving forward with the proposal in 1998. Also dubbed the "Scousescraper",the building was set to be 305 m (1,000 ft) high and would have become the tallest building in Europe at the time. It was never built.
Home Office 213/926 or HO 213/926 is a Home Office file which records the secret deportation from the United Kingdom of thousands of seafarers to China in 1945 and 1946,permanently separating them from their families. It was officially entitled "Compulsory repatriation of undesirable Chinese seamen."
