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The history of Chinatown.
Title: The history of Chinatown.
Category: History / North American History
Details: Words: 1711 | Pages: 7.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The history of Chinatown.
Chinese immigrants first came to Victoria in large numbers during the
goldrushes of the 1850s and Melbourne's Chinatown began as a staging
post for the many thousands of Chinese passing through Melbourne on
their way to the goldfields. The overwhelming majority came from small
farming villages in the Sze-Yap (meaning Four Districts) area of
Kwangtung, China's southernmost province. Since the late eighteenth
century, young men from this region had been accustomed to migrate
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located in small mining towns or on the fringes of city centres.
Here, the Chinese were able to concentrate their own social institutions
and, in some cases, develop a light industry base (cabinet-making in
Melbourne, clothing in Boston, boot and shoe manufacturing in San
Francisco). The enclaves were seen by outsiders as 'a city within a city'
with strange people, shops, dress, smells and with the reputation as
centres for sinister and illegal activities.
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