<map of chinatown. from: http://www.explorechinatown.com/ >
Initial Idea:
(First of all, none of our group members is Chinese.) The Chinatown is expanding. As seen in a neighborhood map of NYC, Chinatown isn't an official district. However, it is very easy to feel China on the Canal street. It seems about to intrude to Little Italy or Financial District. What makes the expansion? What makes the invisible boundary of Chinatown?
History of Chinatown: excerpted from explore chinatown
1846 Chinese junk, Kee Ying, sails into New York
Harbor from Canton with a crew of 35. During the summer, a reported
50,000 New Yorkers visit the Kee Ying.
1878 First Chinese grocery store, Wo Kee, opens
on Mott Street. U.S. Supreme Court denies Chinese the right to become
American citizens.
1902 Chinese become the first nationality to be denied free immigration.
1965 Racial quotas system for immigration is abolished.
1968 Beginning of new influx of Chinese immigrants and expansion of New York Chinatown.
1980 U.S. census indicates that New York Chinatown is the largest Chinese American settlement in U.S.
Pictures:
<boundary of chinatown. Canal street>
<Church street at Canal st.>
<Chinese Sign on Canal st.>
<both of Chinese and English sign>
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