Oakland's Chinatown in California is frequently referred to as "Oakland Chinatown" in order to distinguish it from nearby San Francisco's Chinatown. State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... Aerial view looking west over downtown Oakland, Lake Merritt and the Port of Oakland in the upper left portion of the image. ... The second-largest Chinatown in North America is in San Francisco, California, where signs, storefronts, proprietors, and even lamp posts bring the culture of China to the United States. ... An interesection of Chinatown in San Francisco. ...

Oakland Chinatown is now a pan-Asian neighborhood which reflects Oakland's diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander community of Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Cambodian, Laotian, Mien, Thai, Samoan and others. The term Asian can refer to something or someone from Asia. ... Neighbourhood is also a term in topology. ... An Asian American is a person of Asian ancestry or origin who was born in or is an immigrant to the United States. ... A Pacific Islander or Pacific Person (plural: Pacific People) is a term used in several places, such as New Zealand and the United States, to describe people of a certain heritage In New Zealand, it is applied to a person who has emigrated from one of the smaller islands of... A Laotian American is a resident of the United States who is of ethnic Laotian descent and also one group of Asian Americans. ... A Mien American is a person of Yao ancestry who was either born in or is an immigrant to the United States. ...

Many Asian languages and dialects can be heard in Chinatown including Cantonese, Chiu-Chow, Ilocano, Japanese, Khmer, Khmu, Korean, Lao, Malay, Mandarin, Mien, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Thai, Toishan, and Vietnamese. There are a wide variety of languages spoken thoughout Asia, comprising a number of families and unrelated isolate languages. ... A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος) is a variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area. ... Cantonese can refer to: Of, or pertaining to, the people of, or things from, Guangdong Province, Hong Kong or Macau in China. ... The Teochew dialect (Guangdong romanization: Dio7 Ziu1; Missionary romanization: Tiô-chiu-oē, Chinese:潮州话, Hanyu Pinyin: Cháozhōuhuà, Teochiu or Tiuchiu), is a Chinese language and dialect of Minnan spoken in a region of eastern Guangdong referred to as Chaoshan. ... Ilocano, also Iloko and Ilokano, refers to the language and culture associated with the Ilocano people, the third largest ethnic group in the Philippines. ... Khmer is one of the main Austroasiatic languages. ... The Khmu language is the language of the Khmu people of the northern Laos region. ... The Malay language, also known locally as Bahasa Melayu, is an Austronesian language spoken by the Malay people who are native to the Malay peninsula, southern Thailand, Singapore, central eastern Sumatra, the Riau islands, and parts of the coast of Borneo. ... Standard Mandarin refers to the official Chinese spoken language used by the Peoples Republic of China, the Republic of China on Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. ... The Hmong-Mien languages are a language family of southern China and Southeast Asia. ... Tagálog is one of the major languages of the Republic of the Philippines. ... Taiwanese (Tâi-oân-oē or Hō-ló-oē; Chinese: 台語, 台灣話 or 福佬話; Hanyu Pinyin: Táiyǔ or Táiwānhuà) is a language spoken fluently by about 60% of the population of Taiwan. ... Taishanese (台山話 Taishanese: Hoi4 saan6 wa1, Cantonese: toi4 saan1 wa6), or Seiyap, is a Chinese dialect (or group of very similar dialects) spoken in and around Taishan, in Guangdong province. ...

Chinese were the first Asian to arrive in Oakland in the 1850s, followed by Japanese in the 1890s, Koreans in the 1900s, and Filipinos in the 1900s-1910s. Southeast Asians began arriving in the 1970s. Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ...

History

Oakland Chinatown dates from the 1848 California Gold Rush, with the arrival of some Chinese immigrants in the 1850s, making it one of the oldest Chinatowns in North America. By 1860, the census of Oakland included 96 "Asiatics" among a total of 1,543. More Chinese arrived to help build the Central Pacific Railroad western portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad during the 1860s. Gold rush handbill The California Gold Rush was a period in American history marked by mass hysteria concerning a gold discovery in Northern California. ... A Chinese American is an American who is of ethnic Chinese descent. ... This article surveys individual Chinatowns in North America. ... External link Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum Categories: Corporation stubs | Historical stubs | Defunct railroad companies of the United States | California railroads | Nevada railroads | Utah railroads | Historic civil engineering landmarks ... Poster announcing railroads opening The First Transcontinental Railroad was a transcontinental railroad in the United States that was built across North America in the 1860s, linking the railway network of the eastern U.S. with California on the Pacific coast. ...

The Chinese settled in shrimp camps on the estuary of Oakland at 1st Street and Castro in the 1850s, near the Point in West Oakland which was referred to as "Chinese Point", and at 4th and Clay Streets. The Chinese settlement at Telegraph between 16th and 17th Streets burnt down in 1867 and was relocated at the San Pablo Avenue Chinatown between 19th and 20th Streets; it is now known as Oakland's Old Uptown Chinatown (http://www.uptownchinatown.org/). Other areas settled were 14th Street between Washington and Clay, and the Charter line (22nd Street) between Castro and Brush Streets. Estuaries and coastal waters are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, providing numerous ecological, economic, cultural, and aesthetic benefits and services. ...

Fears of the Yellow Peril and local exclusion laws forced the Chinese to resettled to its current location centered at 8th Street and Webster Street in the 1870s. Yellow Peril was a phrase that originated in the late 19th century with greater immigration of Chinese and Japanese laborers to various Western countries, notably the United States. ...

The first Chinese in Oakland fished in the San Francisco Bay for shrimp similiarly to the Chinese at China Camp (web link (http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=466)) near San Rafael. Chinese laborers built the Temescal Dam in Oakland providing water for the East Bay as well as the Lake Chabot Dam in 1874-75. They worked in canneries, cotton mills and fuse and explosive factories as well as farms. In the 1880s, discriminatory laws made it difficult for Chinese immigrants to own land or even find work. They found work as laundry workers, cooks, gardeners, houseboys, or as vegetable peddlers. San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Golden Gate The San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary in which water draining approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. ... Superfamilies Alpheoidea Atyoidea Bresilioidea Campylonotoidea Crangonoidea Galatheacaridoidea Nematocarcinoidea Oplophoroidea Palaemonoidea Pandaloidea Pasiphaeoidea Physetocaridoidea Procaridoidea Processoidea Psalidopodoidea Stylodactyloidea True shrimp are small, swimming, decapod crustaceans classified in the infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. ... San Rafael is the County seat of Marin County, California, United States. ... Laundry hung out for drying Laundry can be: items of clothing and other textiles that require washing the act of washing clothing and textiles the room of a house in which this is done History of laundry Man and woman washing linen in a brook, from William Henry Pynes... A cook is a person employed to prepare food for consumption, whether in a restaurant or institution, for a caterer or in domestic service. ... A gardener is any person involved in the growing and maintenance of plants, notably in a garden. ... Houseboy, a term not in widespread use today due to a pejorative connotation, is a male servant who performs domestic or personal chores, as in: Houseboy, an American slang term that originated in WWII describing a native boy who helped a soldier preform basic responsibilites like cleaning, laundry, ironing, shoe... Vegetables on a market Vegetable is a nutritional and culinary term denoting any part of a plant that is commonly consumed by humans as food, but is not regarded as a culinary fruit, nut, herb, spice, or grain. ... A peddler is someone who travels, usually by foot, selling goods for a living. ...

Oakland Chinatown was economically stagnant for many years, especially after multigenerational Chinatown residents began heading to the suburbs in the late 1960s. However, the Chinatown saw much development during the 1980s and 1990s after an exodus of Chinese American merchants—who were already experiencing stiff and ever-growing competition and rising costs of rent in the San Francisco area—across the Bay Bridge and increased immigration from mainland China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. Many ethnic Chinese Vietnamese and Chinese Cambodians began opening new small businesses, essentially replacing many of the older Taishanese-dominated businesses. Also, with investment coming from Hong Kong in the 1980s, new modern shopping centers were built. It still retains the traditional aspects and characteristics of an older Chinatown. Oakland's Chinatown includes a historic and still thriving fortune cookie factory. The Bay Bridge, with the skyline of San Francisco in the background. ...

Although it is overshadowed by its well-known counterpart in San Francisco and also suffering from a high crime rate, the Chinatown area is bustling with activity. Other Asian cultures are represented in Oakland's Chinatown as it has also been settled by non-Chinese Asians such as ethnic Vietnamese (many of whom operate many of Chinatown's jewelry businesses), Koreans, and Thais making it more of a pan-Asian area as opposed to a "Chinatown". The biggest thing is that the Chinatown makes tax revenue for the city of Oakland. Jewellery (spelled jewelry in American English) consists of ornamental devices worn by persons, typically made with gems and precious metals. ...

Note: references for future edits

• Chinese
• Scholars working to mine history from early Chinatown amid building (http://home.earthlink.net/~uptownchinatown/20040530Tribune.html) Oakland Tribune
• Historic Asian cannery (http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_2589143) Lew Hing's Pacific Coast Canning Company
• Chinese Workers and the East Bay's Early Water Systems (http://www.kbrhorse.net/wclo/ebchina.html) - East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD)
• Chinese crowding into fashionable districts (http://www.sfmuseum.org/chin/chioak.html) post-SF earthquake anti-Chinese article from The Oakland Herald April 27, 1906
• Interview of Li Keng Wong (http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/asian-american/angel_island/index.htm) Chapter 7: Growing Up in Oakland (Chinatown) - Scholastic Asian American Heritage
• San Antonio (http://www.huduser.org/periodicals/cityscpe/vol4num2/ch11.pdf) (the New Chinatown}
• Chinatown in Hunters Point? (http://www.winternet.com/~rwhenn/quake.htm) - How SF Chinatown almost moved to Oakland after the 1906 earthquake

• Japanese
• Oakland's Japantown: A History (http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/gorneyj200/japantown.html)
• History of the Buddhist Church of Oakland (http://www.buddhistchurchofoakland.org/history.htm)
• Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives - Search on Oakland (http://ark.cdlib.org/?xslt=jarda-image-sr&relation=jarda&type=image&search=oakland&image2=Search&publisher=)
• Sho-Chiku-Bai: Japanese-American Congregationalists (http://www.ucc.org/aboutus/histories/chap11.htm)
• Japantown

• Korean
• Oakland's got Seoul: Koreatown emerges as hub of Asian culture and downtown's rebirth (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/06/13/BA54268.DTL)
• In Our Own Voice: The Making of A Korean Community (http://www.museumca.org/exhibit/exhi_korean_american_exp.html)
• Immigrants fashioning new ethnic district in East Bay (http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_2482112)
• Koreatown

• Filipino
• Heartfelt book gives voice to Bay Area Filipino Americans (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/03/29/EB21870.DTL)
• Little Manila

• Vietnamese
• The Vietnamese American Community (http://www.asian-nation.org/vietnamese-community.shtml)
• Little Saigon

• Cambodian
• Making the grades (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/05/14/EBG2O6H9E61.DTL): New tutoring program provides helping hand for refugee students

• Laotian

• Mien
• Lao Iu Mien Culture Center Breaks Ground (http://www.asianweek.com/2000_10_26/bay1_culturecenter.html)
• Introduction and Brief Iu Mien History (http://pixographer.iumien.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=1&page=2)

• Thai

• Others

The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake at San Francisco, California on the early morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906. ... Japantown is a common name for Japanese-American or Japanese-Canadian communities in big cities. ... Koreatown is a term to describe the Korean ethnic enclave within a city or metropolitan area. ... Little Manila (also known as Manilatowns or Filipinotowns) is a community with a large Filipino expatriate and descendant population. ... Little Saigon is a a name given to any of several Vietnamese American communities in the United States. ...

Government

Chinatown is in Oakland City Council (http://www.oaklandnet.com/government/council/city-officials.html) District 2 (Grand Lake-Chinatown) (map (http://www.oaklandnet.com/oit/CDST/pdf/ccd2.pdf)) which is currently vacant. It was represented by Danny Wan (http://www.dannywan.com/) who resigned January 1, 2005 to work for the Port of Oakland . A Special Municipal Election to fill the Council vacancy to January 2007 was held on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 (League of Women Voters information (http://www.smartvoter.org/2005/05/17/ca/alm/race/1/)). Patricia Kernighan (http://www.votepat.com/) won the mail-only election and could take office the week of May 31. [1] (http://www.ktvu.com/news/4501435/detail.html) [2] (http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_2733127) The Grand Lake neighborhood of Oakland, California is generally regarded as the portion of Oakland surrounding the Grand Lake Theater and resting on the northern edge of Lake Merritt. ...

Police and fire

Oakland Fire Department (http://www.oaklandnet.com/oakweb/fire/index.html), Engine Company No. 12 is located at 822 Alice Street at 9th Street. Fire engine 2552 is assigned to this fire station. The latest firefighter to die in the line of duty was from Engine Company No. 12. Hoseman Tracy Toomey died January 10, 1999 in a 2 story building collapse after responding to a 6 alarm fire on upper Broadway. [3] (http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/face9903.html) Engine 4 - City of Chico, CA A Fire Engine is one of many specialized fire suppression apparatuses. ... A fire station is a building or other area set aside for storage of firefighting apparatus (i. ...

Chinatown is in Oakland Police Department's (http://www.oaklandpolice.com/) Beat 3X (http://www.oaklandpolice.com/youroff/beat3X.html). The Community Services Section (http://www.oaklandpolice.com/deptorg/bfocomm.html) hosts the Asian Advisory Committee on Crime and the Asian Youth Services Committee (http://asianyouth.org/). Chinatown office at 388 9th Street, #259

Crime

Note: references for future edits

• Thieves target Asian families (http://www.insidebayarea.com/timesstar/localnews/ci_2600181). Chinese youths among suspects arrested admit to planning burglaries

• Man Dies After Shooting at Oakland Restaurant (http://atlas.kpix.com/news/local/2003/06/25/Man_Dies_After_Shooting_at_Oakland_Restaurant.html) Gambling boss shot dead in restaurant (http://www.wagerpaigow.com/news/details/gambling_boss_shot_dead_in_restaurant.html) 2003

• Suey Sing Boys of Oakland (http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2005-04-27/news/feature_print.html)

• Gambling probe nets 15 arrests (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/2000/03/03/NEWS7881.dtl) 2003
• Twice Burned (http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2000-06-14/news/feature_1.html) 2000
• The Cop: A Profile of Harry Hu (http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/juvenile/structure/cop.html)
• The Chinese Triads (http://www.irs-agency.us/chinese_triads.htm)
• Asian American Trend Reflected in Crime, Breakdown of Families (http://www.huaren.org/diaspora/n_america/usa/docs/121598-01.html)

Infrastructure

Transportation

Oakland is served by several AC Transit bus lines which go on 7th, 8th, 11th, 12th, Broadway, and Franklin Streets . AC Transit (in full, Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District) is a bus agency serving parts of Alameda County, California, and Contra Costa County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. ...

The neighborhood has two BART stations: 12th Street Station on its northwest corner, and Lake Merritt Station at its eastern edge. BART (in full, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District) is a rapid transit electric train service that serves parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, including the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Fremont, and Walnut Creek. ...

Interstate 880 and Interstate 980 are nearby. Interstate 880 is a regional bypass interstate highway in the Bay Area metropolitan area of Northern California. ... Interstate 980 is a short Interstate spur route in northern California connecting Interstate 80 and Interstate 880 via downtown Oakland. ...

Located at the crossroads of the 880 freeway, the tubes linking Alameda and Oakland, and downtown, Oakland Chinatown bears a significant transportation burden that dates back to the 1950s. [4] (http://www.dannywan.com/TlcPressRelease121004.htm) Over 20,000 shoppers and tourists use its sidewalks every weekend. Chinatown has the highest number of pedestrian collisions in the City of Oakland. A pedestrian safety campaign brought in the first scramble system in Alameda County to Oakland Chinatown to prevent further pedestrian fatalities and injuries. [5] (http://www.tsc.berkeley.edu/html/res_PS_scramble.html) [6] (http://repositories.cdlib.org/its/tsc/UCB-TSC-RR-2003-06/) A tube is hollow cylindrical shape. ... A Barnes Dance in New York City near the New York Public Library. ...

Health

Both conventional Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine with acupuncture and herbology are found in Chinatown. Medicine is a branch of health science concerned with maintaining health and restoring it by treating disease. ... Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) also known simply as Chinese medicine (Chinese: 中醫學, zhōngyī xué, or 中药学, zhōngyaò xué) or traditional Oriental medicine, is the name commonly given to a range of traditional medical practices used in China that have developed over the course of several thousand years of history. ... Acupuncture chart from the Ming dynasty. ... Herbology is the art of combining medicinal herbs. ...

Asian Health Services (http://www.ahschc.org) is a community health center (Federally Qualified Health Center) serving the local immigrant community. Its staff is bilingual or multilingual in nine different languages: English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Korean, Tagalog, Cambodian, Lao, and Mien. A Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) is an American community based health organization. ...

Asian Community Mental Health Services (http://www.acmhs.org/) The core competencies of its staff reflect a wide spectrum of age groups, immigrant/refugee cultural status and language fluency in 13 Asian & Pacific Islander (A&PI) languages/dialects: Cambodian, Cantonese, Japanese, Khmu, Korean, Lao, Mandarin, Malay, Mien, Tagalog, Thai, Toishan, and Vietnamese.

Asian Outreach Program (http://www.summitmed.com/community/ao.html) Alta Bates Summit Medical Center Alta Bates Summit Medical Center is a hospital group located in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. ...

Chinese American Physicians' Society (CAPS) (http://www.caps-ca.org/)

Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences (http://www.acchs.edu/) - Master of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine. The teaching clinic is a clinical program of Traditional Chinese Medicine that is open to the public, provides high quality care at low cost, and offers a complete alternative medicine service to the community.

Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center - A Community Center for Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Services in 20 languages including: Chinese, Hawaiian, Hindi, Ilokano, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Malay, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese and Visayan. website (http://apiwellness.org/)

Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO) is a national association representing community health organizations dedicated to promoting advocacy, collaboration and leadership that improves the health status and access of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders within the United States. website (http://www.aapcho.org/)

Social services

Family Bridges (http://www.fambridges.org/), formerly Oakland Chinese Community Council

Wa Sung Community Service Club and Wa Sung Charity Fund (http://www.wasungserviceclub.org/). Funds for community services are derived from fund raising projects including the annual Easter Pancake Breakfast, the East Bay Community Directory, A Chef's Delight (food & wine event), and from direct donations.

Salvation Army The Salvation Army is a Wesleyan Christian denomination, a charity and a social services organization. ...

Education

Lincoln Elementary School (http://tlc.ousd.k12.ca.us/lincoln/) (K-5) is the local public "American school" and governed by the Oakland Unified School District. photo/history (http://collections.museumca.org/item_detail.jsp?id=80608) Oakland Unified School District is a public education school district which operates elementary schools (K-5), middle schools (6-8), and high schools (9-12) in Oakland, California. ...

A private after school program "Chinese school" for Chinese language and culture is held at the Oakland Chinese Community Center on 9th Street at Harrison. In Western countries like the United States, Canada, Australia and the UK, a Chinese school is a school established explicitly for the purpose of teaching the Chinese language (of the various Chinese dialects, nowadays Mandarin Chinese is almost always the one taught) to American-born Chinese (ABC), Canadian-born Chinese...

Lighthouse Community Charter School (http://www.lighthousecharter.org/), 345 12th Street. Started 2004 - 2005 with grades K-2 and 6-8. LCCS intends to enroll two new grade levels each year until they serve grades K – 12 school in 2008 – 2009.

Laney College is a community college located at the south end of Chinatown. Laney College is a community college located in Oakland, California. ... In Canada and the United States, a community college, sometimes called a junior college, is an educational institution providing post-secondary education and lower-level tertiary education, granting certificates, diplomas, and associates degrees. ...

Oakland Unified School District Adult Schools Oakland Unified School District is a public education school district which operates elementary schools (K-5), middle schools (6-8), and high schools (9-12) in Oakland, California. ...

• Pleasant Valley Adult School (http://pvas.ousd.k12.ca.us/) offers classes in Chinatown at Chinese Presbyterian Church 265 - 8th Street, Hong Lok Senior Center - 275 - 7th Street, J.L. Richards Terrace - 250 East 12th Street, Noble Tower Apartments 1515 Lakeside Drive, Vietnamese Senior Seton Center 211 B. Foothill Blvd. Classes for Frail Older Adults are at Hong Fook Adult Day Health Center.
• Neighborhood Centers Adult School, 750 International Boulevard, offers a GED program (info (http://www.adultedlearners.org/browse/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewList&catid=46)). There are also English as a Second Language (ESL) classes in Chinatown

The GED, or General Education Development Test, is a test that certifies the taker has attained American or Canadian high school-level academic skills. ... English as an additional language is used to refer to the learning of English by speakers of other languages. ...

Media

• Television
  • KTSF TV 26 (http://www.ktsf.com/ktsf_e/index.asp) programming in 12 different languages (Asian languages include Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Tagalog); serving the San Francisco Bay Area Asian community since 1976; live news programming in both Cantonese and Mandarin; programming from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan.
  • KMTP TV 32 (http://www.kmtp.org/) (Minority Television Project) has a few Chinese and Korean programs.
  • Cable 69 AZN Television all-Asian programming.

• Newspaper
  • Chinese
    • Ming Pao Daily News
    • Sing Tao Daily
    • World Journal
  • Korean
    • Korean Central Daily http://www.joongangusa.com/
    • The Korean Times http://www.koreatimes.com/
  • Vietnamese
    • Tuan Bao Mo Vietnamese Weekly Magazine San Francisco - Oakland
    • Tuan Bao Thoi Bao Vietnamese Weekly Magazine Oakland - San Francisco - San Jose
    • Vietnam Daily News website (http://www.vietnamdaily.com/) San Jose
    • Viet Mercury (http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/vietmerc/) - ad info (http://www.mercurynews.net/advertising/VIET/)
  • English
    • AsianWeek: The Voice of Asian America website (http://news.asianweek.com/news/)

• Radio
  • Sing Tao Chinese Radio program and recordings (http://av.sina.com/sfradio/) program (http://www.sanfranciscochinatown.com/culture/radio.html)
    • KTVO AM 1400, Cantonese 5am-1pm, 10pm-midnight
    • KEST AM 1450, Cantonese 1pm-5pm
    • FM 96.1, Mandarin 7am-2pm
  • Korean American Radio (Hanmi) KTVO AM 1400 2pm-6pm
  • Radio Seoul USA KTOB FM 106.9
  • Little Saigon Radio KSJX AM 1500 San Jose

• Yellow Pages telephone directories
  • Chinese Yellow Pages
  • Korean Yellow Pages
  • Vietnamese Directory/USA (Oakland, Hayward, San Francisco edition)

References (http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_custom.html?custom_page_id=155) ... Mandarin  listen(Traditional: 北方話, Simplified: 北方话, Hanyu Pinyin: Běifānghuà, lit. ... Tagálog is one of the major languages of the Republic of the Philippines. ... AZN Television (AZN TV), formerly The International Channel, is a cable television network featuring programing from Asian countries including China, Korea, Japan, and India. ... Ming Pao (Traditional Chinese: 明報, Simplified Chinese: 明报, Jyutping ming4 bou3, Hanyu Pinyin: míngbào), a Chinese language newspaper, is a publication by the Ming Pao Group in Hong Kong. ... Fuck this ... World Journal (Chinese: 世界日報; pinyin: shì jiè rì bào) is a daily Chinese language newspaper serving overseas Chinese in North America. ... In many countries, the Yellow Pages refers to a telephone directory for businesses organized by the category of product or service. ... In telephony, a telephone directory is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organisation that publishes the directory. ...

Geography

Oakland Chinatown (8th and Webster Streets) is located at 37°47'57" North, 122°16'17" West (37.799252, -122.27145). Elevation is about 34 feet above sea level. Elevation has several related meanings: Geography The elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or possibly some other fixed point). ...

• Maps and aerial photos (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=37.799252_N_-122.27145_E_type:city_region:US)
  • Street map from MapQuest  (http://mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=37.799252&longitude=-122.27145&zoom=6) or Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.799252,-122.27145&spn=0.11,0.18)
  • Topographic map from TopoZone  (http://topozone.com/map.asp?lat=37.799252&lon=-122.27145&s=200&size=m&layer=DRG100&datum=nad83)
  • Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA (http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?s=14&lon=-122.27145&lat=37.799252&w=2)
  • Satellite image from Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.799252,-122.27145&spn=0.11,0.18&t=k)

photos (http://www.filmoakland.com/locationgallery/lg_n_chinatown.htm)

Chinatown is located in Downtown between Broadway to the west, Interstate 880 to the south, Oak Street and Laney College to the east, and 12th Street to the north. Unlike many Chinatowns, it has no formal arch (Paifang) or gate, but it does have bilingual street signs. Downtown Honolulu in Hawaii, United States, an example of an urban downtown district Central business district (CBD) and downtown are terms referring to the commercial heart of a city. ... Interstate 880 is a regional bypass interstate highway in the Bay Area metropolitan area of Northern California. ... Laney College is a community college located in Oakland, California. ... Simple arch bridge Close-up of a semi-circular arch in Barcelona, Spain. ... Categories: China-related stubs ... Gates may prevent entry, or they may be merely decorative. ... The term bilingualism (from bi meaning two and lingua meaning language) can refer to rather different phenomena. ... A U.S. warning sign about children in the road, and a speed limit notice A U.S. warning sign indicating that drivers who do not wish to exit immediately should merge left, and a prohibitory No Stopping sign Most countries place signs, known as traffic signs or road signs...

The neighborhood can be roughly divided into two distinct areas: Between Broadway and Harrison Street is the commercial area, with busy streets lined with markets, restaurants, banks, and other businesses. Several new buildings have been built in the last few years. East of Harrison Street, the neighborhood is primarily residential, with little pedestrian activity and only a handful of stores. This article is about the business concept; Commerce is also the name of several places in the United States. ...

Recent immigrants have also moved south into "New Oakland Chinatown" in the San Antonio neighborhood along International Blvd (formerly East 14th Street) and Eastlake business district on East 18th Street.

Housing

Landmarks and architecture

National Register of Historic Places - The National Register of Historic Places is the USAs official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects worthy of preservation. ...

• Madison Park Apartments (98 family units), 100 9th Street. 1982-04-01 1982002164 The Classic Colonial Revival-style was the largest wood structure west of the Mississippi at the time it was built in 1908. The five-story apartment building, severely damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, was saved from demolition by the nonprofit East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation. The repair, restoration and seismic and code upgrades of the affordable housing project were completed by Asian Neighborhood Design (website (http://www.andnet.org/)) on a very restricted budget in 1995. The restoration project won the Preservation Design Award from the California Preservation Foundation; of particular merit to the judges was the meticulous restoration of the distinctive "clinker brick" wainscoting on the exterior. [7] (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1996/02/07/HABITAT2880.dtl) photo (http://www.branaghinc.com/projects_detail.php?ID=30)

• Main Post Office and Federal Building 201 13th St. 1980-10-23 1980000796

• Hotel Oakland 260 13th Street December 18, 1979 1979000470 A Brief History of the Hotel Oakland (http://www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org/ca/traveler/2004-04/hotel_oakland.shtml)

postcards (http://www.oaklandheritage.org/hotel%20oak.htm) postcard (http://www.oaklandheritage.org/hospital4.htm) facts (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=147678) photos (http://www.filmoakland.com/locationgallery/lg_h_hoteloakland.htm)

National Landmarks in Alameda County Sequenced By City and Address (http://www.peezda.com/alameda/default.aspx?content=National&sequence=city) The Colonial Revival was a nationalistic architectural style. ... The Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on October 17, 1989 in the greater San Francisco Bay Area in California at 5:04 pm local time and measured 7. ... Clinker bricks are bricks used in the construction of buildings. ... Wainscot or wainscoting (pronounced with a long ō, as in oat) is wooden or other panelling applied to the lower 1. ...

Parks, gardens, and other recreational sites

Lincoln Square Recreation Center (http://www.oaklandnet.com/parks/facilities/rc_lincolnsquare.asp) City of Oakland Office of Parks and Recreation.

[8] (http://www.insidebayarea.com/searchresults/ci_2730066) [9] (http://www.insidebayarea.com/searchresults/ci_2741797) photos (http://www.filmoakland.com/locationgallery/lg_p_lincolnsquare.htm)

Lincoln Square has a junk boat play structure built in 1969. The Junk is a Chinese sailing vessel. ...

Oakland Chinatown Chinese Garden at Harrison Railroad Park, 275 Seventh Street. photos (http://www.filmoakland.com/locationgallery/lg_p_chinesegarden.htm)

Madison Square and Lake Merritt BART Station park, Madison at 8th Street - site of early morning Tai Chi Chuan and other exercise programs. photos (http://www.filmoakland.com/locationgallery/lg_p_madisonsquare.htm) Tai Chi Chuan or Taijiquan (Chinese: 太極拳; pinyin: ; literally supreme ultimate fist), commonly known as Tai Chi, Tai Chi, or Taiji, is a nei chia (internal) Chinese martial art which is known for the claims of health and longevity benefits made by its practitioners and in some...

Economy

OaklandNet/Opportunities: Development Opportunities: Retail: Downtown: Chinatown (http://www.oaklandnet.com/business/opportunities/oppo_retail_down_auto_china.html) background information about business in Chinatown

Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, 388 9th Street Suite 258

Korean Chamber of Commerce

Oakland Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce, 412 8th Street, #D

East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) (http://www.ebaldc.com/) is a community economic development organization dedicated to the betterment of the East Bay community, particularly the low-income and Asian and Pacific Islander population, through development of physical, human and economic assets for individuals and community organizations.

Sweatshop In 2001 there were approximately ninety garment-factories in Oakland, many in or near Chinatown. A sweatshop is a factory, where people work for a very small wage, producing a variety of products such as clothes, toys, shoes, and other consumer goods. ...

Sweatshop Activists Follow the Money (http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2001-07-18/news/cityside2.html) New legislation attempts to make garment manufacturers responsible for workers' pay.

• Asian supermarket

In the western world, an Asian supermarket, sometimes called an Oriental supermarket, stocks items imported from many places in Asia. ...

People and culture

Demographics

See Chinatown Community Information Book 2001 (http://www.acphd.org/AXBYCZ/Admin/DataReports/chinatown.pdf), Alameda County Public Health Department.

US Census facts (http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/004522.html)

Community centers and organizations

Chinese American Citizens Alliance Chinese American Citizens Alliance is a Chinese American political organization founded in 1895 in San Francisco, California to secure equal rights for Americans of Chinese ancestry. ...

Oakland Chinese Community Center

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA) (http://www.aiwa.org/)

Filipinos for Affirmative Action (http://www.filipinos4action.org/)

Asian Pacific Environmental Network (http://www.apen4ej.org/) seeks to empower low-income Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities to achieve environmental and social justice.

Oakland Consolidated Chinese Associations, an umbrella group for twelve family associations: Bing Kong Tong Association, Zhong Shan Doo Tao Association, Chung Shan Family Association, Gee How Oak Tin Association (http://www.ghot.org/), Toi Shan Benevolent Association, Lee Family Benevolent Association (http://www.leecu.com/history.html), Loong Kong Tien Yee Association (http://www.palungkong.org/), Soo Yuen Benevolent Association (http://www.users.bigpond.com/vkelim/fong.html), Tai Land Lim's Family Association, Toishan Association, Wong Family Association, Wu Yi Friendship Association

Vietnamese American Cultural & Educational Association of the Bay Area (http://www.vaced.org)

Korean Community Center of the East Bay (http://www.kcceb.org/english/)

Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach (formerly Nihonmachi Legal Outreach), is the largest social justice law firm serving the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities of the Greater Bay Area with offices in San Francisco and Oakland, providing free and sliding-scale legal services to the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in more than a dozen languages and dialects including Cantonese, Chiu-Chow, Hindi, Ilocano, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Mandarin, Spanish, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Urdu, and Vietnamese. website (http://www.geocities.com/APILegalOutreach/) Cantonese can refer to: Of, or pertaining to, the people of, or things from, Guangdong Province, Hong Kong or Macau in China. ... The Teochew dialect (Guangdong romanization: Dio7 Ziu1; Missionary romanization: Tiô-chiu-oē, Chinese:潮州话, Hanyu Pinyin: Cháozhōuhuà, Teochiu or Tiuchiu), is a Chinese language and dialect of Minnan spoken in a region of eastern Guangdong referred to as Chaoshan. ... Hindi (हिन्दी) is a language spoken in most states in northern and central India. ... Ilocano, also Iloko and Ilokano, refers to the language and culture associated with the Ilocano people, the third largest ethnic group in the Philippines. ... Standard Mandarin refers to the official Chinese spoken language used by the Peoples Republic of China, the Republic of China on Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. ... Tagálog is one of the major languages of the Republic of the Philippines. ... Taiwanese (Tâi-oân-oē or Hō-ló-oē; Chinese: 台語, 台灣話 or 福佬話; Hanyu Pinyin: Táiyǔ or Táiwānhuà) is a language spoken fluently by about 60% of the population of Taiwan. ... Urdu (اردو) is an Indo-European language which originated in India, most likely in the vicinity of Delhi, whence it spread to the rest of the subcontinent. ...

• Religious organizations
  • Oakland Buddhist Church (http://www.buddhistchurchofoakland.org) (Japanese) (founded 1901) at 8th and Jackson Streets - article (http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/gorneyj200/buddhist.html)
  • The Light of Buddha Temple, Oak at 7th Sts
  • Chinese Congregational Church (1875-1938)
  • Chinese Presbyterian Church (CPC) of Oakland (http://oaklandcpc.presbychurch.org/) (1878)
  • Chinese Community United Methodist Church (http://www.gbgm-umc.org/ccumc-oakland/) (1887)
  • Chinese Independent Baptist Church (http://www.cibc-oakland.org/) (1894)
  • The Episcopal Church Of Our Saviour (http://www.ecosoakland.org/) (1907)
  • Bay Area Chinese Bible Church (BACBC) (http://www.bacbc.org) (1956)
  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Oakland 7th (Chinese) Branch (https://secure.lds.org/units/home/0,9781,600-1-7-372889,00.html)
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland has masses in other languages (http://www.oakdiocese.org/masses.htm): Chinese, Filipino, Indonesian, Khmu, Korean, and Vietnamese

• • Oakland Korean United Methodist Church (http://www.geocities.com/okumcem/)
  • St. Andrew Kim Korean Catholic Church (http://www.oakcc.org/home-e.htm)

• • Oakland Vietnamese Alliance Church (http://www.oaklandvietchurch.com)

• Youth programs
  • Oakland Police Asian Youth Lion Dance Group web page (http://asianyouth.org/liondance.html)
  • Cub Scouts Pack 201
  • Girl Scouts Troop ?
  • Korean Youth Cultural Center (http://www.kycc.net/)
  • Hip Wah Summer Program (http://hipwah.org) is an English language Chinese culture program for American-born Chinese or adopted Chinese children.

The Salt Lake City temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the largest attraction in the citys Temple Square. ... The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the northern California region of the United States. ... This article needs cleanup. ... US Cub Scout Emblem The Cub Scouts, often known simply as Cubs, is a section of the Scouting movement for children between the ages of around 8-11 (depending on the country). ... The Girl Scouts of the United States of America is a youth organization for girls in the United States based on the Scouting principles developed by Robert Baden-Powell. ... An American-born Chinese or ABC is a person born in the United States of Chinese ethnic descent. ... Adoption is the legal act of permanently placing a child with a parent or parents other than the birth parents. ...

Annual cultural events and fairs

Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year or Vietnamese Têt A banner of the celebration of Chinese New Year. ... Tết Nguyên Ðán, more commonly known as Tết, is the most important holiday in Vietnam. ...

The Great Wall Youth Orchestra and Chorus - traditional Chinese instruments performing Chinese and adapted Western music. Annual benefit concert in May. website (http://www.purplesilk.org/)

Dragon boat race The 8th Annual California International Dragon Boat Festival, "Return of the Dragon" will return on August 13-14, 2005 at Jack London Square in Oakland. International Dragon Boat Association (http://www.edragons.org/) A more specific term for dragon boat as a sport is dragon boat race, which is a team paddling sport on water, using very long and very narrow painted boats to which are attached decorative dragon heads and tails. ...

The Oakland Chinatown StreetFest (http://www.oaklandchinatownstreetfest.com/) occurs on the 4th weekend of August annually since 1988.

Mid-Autumn Festival or Moon Festival or Vietnamese Tết Trung Thu The Mid-Autumn Moonfestival is also celebrated in overseas Chinese communities like the San Francisco Chinatown The Mid-Autumn Festival (Chinese: 中秋節; simplified Chinese 中秋节 pinyin: Zhōngqīujíe; Vietnamese Tết Trung Thu), Moon Festival, or, less commonly, Mooncake Festival (月餅節; simplified Chinese 月饼节 pinyin: yùe bĭng jíe) is a traditional Chinese...

Performing arts

Oakland Asian Cultural Center (http://www.oacc.cc/)

Asia Pacific Cultural Quagmire (http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2002-02-06/cityside2.html) eastbayexpress.com February 6, 2002

The Purple Silk Music Education Foundation (http://www.purplesilk.org/) is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to support ongoing Chinese music programs in Oakland.

Cantonese opera Cantonese opera (粵劇, pinyin: Yuèjù, yuet kek or 神功戲) is one of the major Chinese opera categories in southern China. ...

Museum and art

The Asian Resources Gallery is located in the hallway of the Asian Resources Center at 308 8th Street.

The Oakland Asian Cultural Center (http://www.oacc.cc/) at 388 9th Street, Ste 290, includes a Permanent Exhibit of Oakland's 19th Century San Pablo Avenue Chinatown. Current Exhibit is Costumes of Kathak: The Classical Dance of North India from May to November 2005. Monday through Friday 10am -5pm, Saturdays 11am - 4pm.

The Oakland Museum of California is located at 10th & Oak Streets at the south portion of Chinatown. Oakland Museum of California or Oakland Museum is a museum dedicated to the art, history, and natural science of California located in Oakland, California. ...

Flo Oy Wong - Gallery - Drawings - Oakland Chinatown Series 1983- 1991 (http://www.flo-oy-wongartist.com/gallery/draw/oak.html)

Libraries

The Asian Branch Library (http://www.oaklandlibrary.org/Branches/asian.html) is one of Oakland Public Library's busiest branch. The Asian Library is unique among public library branches in the United States as it houses eight Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Cambodian, Tagalog and Laotian) in major reference titles and general subject titles, an Asian Studies collection and an in-depth Asian American collection in English.

The Asian Branch Library was founded in 1975 as part of a Federal Library Services Construction Act grant to create a model library serving the Asian community in Oakland with multilingual staff and collections. In 1978, the branch moved from its original location at the Park Boulevard to the Main Library. In 1981, it moved to its own building at 9th street and Broadway. The current location in the Pacific Renaissance Plaza opened to the public in 1995.

Friends of Asian Library (http://www.fopl.org/asian.htm) Year of the Monkey (http://www.fopl.org/year_of_the_monkey.htm) 2004

Sports

Notable natives and residents

Chinatown Pioneers

Hall of Pioneers Gallery, Oakland Chinatown Chinese Garden, 275 Seventh St., Oakland. Open Monday - Friday 10 am to 4 pm, no charge. Exhibit of "local individuals who helped to establish Oakland's Chinatown or who made major contributions to the Chinese people in America"; selected by the Oakland Chinese History Research Committee.

• Dr. Raymond Eng (1911-1994), optometrist, first Chinese city councilman
• Fong Get Mo (1894-1989), barber, first licensed Chinese woman to operate a shop in Chinatown
• Fong Guey (1883-1912), aviator, first person to build and fly an aircraft on the Pacific Coast in 1909
• Fong Wan (1883-1968), herbalist, practicing herbalist is arrested and acquitted for practicing medicine without a license
• Dong Kingman (1911-2000), watercolorist, created paintings for Flower Drum Song and The World of Suzie Wong web site (http://www.dongkingman.org/)
• Dr. Charles G. Lee (1881-1973), dentist, first licensed Chinese dentist who financed the lodge building of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance in Oakland
• Lew Hing (1858-1934), tycoon, founded successful cannery building an empire in banking, shipping, and real estate bio (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_200502/ai_n12942874#continue) photo (http://www.oaklandhistory.com/files/hing.html)
• Rev. Frank G. Mar (1922-1989), minister, formed the major social service organizations in Oakland Chinatown
• Ng Poon Chew (1866-1931), publisher, Presbyterian minister who started the first Chinese language paper Chung Sai Yat Po in the United States in 1905
• Joe Shoong (1879-1961), retailer and philantropist, owner of National Dollar Store chain and financial supporter of Chinese community bio (http://www.oaklandnet.com/government/parks/news/040703d.asp)
• Dr. Jacob Yee (1904-1986), physician, first Chinese bilingual doctor to use Western medicine in Oakland
• Yee Quon Wah (1906-1986), laundryman, fought an unjust law which prohibited working in a laundry after 6 pm

Other Asian-American Oaklanders who grew up in or influenced Oakland Chinatown Flower Drum Song is a Broadway musical with a score by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, and a book by Hammerstein and Joseph Fields, based on the novel by C.Y. Lee. ... The World of Suzie Wong is a 1957 novel written by Richard Mason, which has since been adapted into both a play and a film. ... Chinese American Citizens Alliance is a Chinese American political organization founded in 1895 in San Francisco, California to secure equal rights for Americans of Chinese ancestry. ... Presbyterianism is part of the Reformed churches family of denominations of Christian Protestantism based on the teachings of John Calvin which traces its institutional roots to the Scottish Reformation, especially as led by John Knox. ... 2000 density of Asian Americans (red) An Asian American is a person of Asian ancestry or origin who was born in or is an immigrant to the United States. ...

• Jeff Chan, lion dance troupe organizer bio (http://immortals.8k.com/jeff.htm)
• Wilma Chan, school board, county supervisor, state assemby bio (http://www.asianamerican.net/bios/Chan-Wilma.html) website (http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a16/)
• Henry Chang, city council website (http://www.oaklandnet.com/government/council/coun_mem/HenryChang/index.html)
• Frank Chin, writer bio (http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/chin.html)
• Ted Dang, active Chinatown and civic affairs
• Jeanette Dong, public policy and government relations consultant bio (http://www.teamupforyouth.org/32.html)
• March Fong Eu, politician
• Matt Fong, politician
• Ben Fong-Torres, journalist, author, radio personality web site (http://benfongtorres.com/)
• Shirley Fong-Torres, chef bio (http://www.postcardsforyou.com/shirleyintro.html)
• Willie Kee, photographer, cameraman bio (http://www.broadcastlegends.com/kee.html)
• Maxine Hong Kingston, writer, The Woman Warrior, China Men
• Fred Korematsu resisted, and then challenged in court, the forced internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II
• Alice Lai-Bitker, county supervisor website (http://www.co.alameda.ca.us/board/district3/)
• Bruce Lee, martial artist, actor Bruce Lee, The Oakland Years (http://www.ewbb.com/news.htm) ISBN 1583940898, Vol. 2 ISBN 1583941185
• Lee Mun Wah, multicultural therapist, diversity training bio (http://www.stirfryseminars.com/pages/bios_munwah.html)
• Sue Li-Jue, dancer bio (http://www.fedm.org/about_bios.html)
• Frank Ogawa, city council bio (http://www.iieb.org/history_60s.htm)
• Jean Quan, school board, city council website (http://www.jeanquan.org/)
• Paul Quen, press photographer, TV news cameraman
• Amy Tan, author
• Denise Tom, sports journalist Oakland Tribune and USA TODAY news (http://www.poynter.org/forum/?id=32212)
• Maeley Tom, state legislature assistance, Office of Asian Pacific Affairs bio (http://www.famouschinese.com/people/Maeley_L._Tom)
• Danny Wan, city council website (http://www.dannywan.com/)
• Flo Oy Wong, artist home page (http://www.flo-oy-wongartist.com/)Women Artist of the American West (http://www.sla.purdue.edu/WAAW/AsianAmerican/Artists/WONGGal.htm)
• Francis Wong, musician bio (http://www.asianimprov.com/artists_one.asp?artistid=26)
• Nellie Wong, poet bio & archives (http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/nwong_toc.html)
• William Wong, journalist, writer web site (http://www.yellowjournalist.com/)
• Henry Woon, photographer, playwright, journalist, painter
• Gary Yee, school board bio (http://bex.ousd.k12.ca.us/GaryYee.asp)
• Rodney Yee, yoga instructor
• Wendy Yoshimura watercolor artist

Note: Chinese family name is first when the name is all Chinese

March Fong Eu March Fong Eu (江月桂, pinyin: Jiāng Yuègùi) (born 1922 in Oakdale, California) is an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party. ... Matthew K. Fong is a Republican politican from California. ... Maxine Hong Kingston (湯婷婷) (born October 27, 1940) is a Chinese American writer. ... The Woman Warrior was written by Maxine Hong Kingston in 1975. ... Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu (January 30, 1919–March 30, 2005) was one of the many Japanese-American citizens living on the West Coast during World War II. Shortly after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing the Secretary of War to require all Japanese... Martial arts actor Bruce Lee. ... Amy Tan (Chinese: 譚恩美; pinyin: Tán Ēnměi) (born February 19, 1952) is a Chinese American author. ... The Oakland Tribune is a daily newspaper published in Oakland, California by the ANG Newspapers, a subsidiary of MediaNews Group. ... USA Today is a national American newspaper published by the Gannett Corporation. ... Categories: Stub | Yogis ... Wendy Masako Yoshimura is a former domestic American terrorist. ... A family name, or surname, is that part of a persons name that indicates to what family he or she belongs. ...

References

• Oakland's Chinatown (Images of America: California) by William Wong. Arcadia Publishing 2004 ISBN 0738529257 AsianWeek review (http://news.asianweek.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=849ba6bd93cc104b408f562c6f495005&this_category_id=170) San Francisco Chronicle review (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/12/31/EBGL3AB8R241.DTL&type=travelbayarea)
• Oakland Chinatown Community Directory 2005. Wa Sung Community Service Club. Annual distribution Easter Sunday morning
• Oakland, the Story of a City by Beth Bagwell. 1994. ISBN 0964008718 (HC) or ISBN 096400870X (PB)
• A History of Chinese Americans in California. National Park Service History. website (http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/5views/5views3.htm)
• The Chinese of Oakland: Unsung Builders, Eve Armentrout Ma and Jeong Huei Ma (Oakland Chinese History Research Committee, 1982)

Readings Arcadia Publishing is a local history publisher in the United States was established in 1993, with a catalog of more than 3,000 titles. ...

• Hometown Chinatown: A History of Oakland's Chinese Community, 1852-1995 (Asian Americans) by L. Eva Armentrout Ma. Garland Publishing (January 1, 2001) ISBN 0815337604
• The Reemergence of an Inner City: The Pivot of Chinese Settlement in the East Bay Region of the San Francisco Bay Area by Willard T. Chow. R & E Pub (June 1, 1977) ISBN 088247457X
• Chann, Ernest. "Brief History of Oakland Chinatown." Unpublished monograph, 1976. At Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Room.

See also

• List of named ethnic enclaves in North American cities

The New Yorkistan cover of The New Yorker mocks urban Americas prosensity to huddle into cultural or ethnic enclaves—that said, many of New Yorks neighborhoods are amongst the most integrated in the world. ...

External links

• Oakland Chinatown Without Bounds (http://huaren.org/diaspora/n_america/usa/docs/042599-01.html)
• Stop Chinatown Evictions Coalition (http://www.oaklandtenantsunion.org/pacren/) - Oakland Tenants Union
• Chinatown Community Information Book 2001 (http://www.acphd.org/AXBYCZ/Admin/DataReports/chinatown.pdf), Alameda County Public Health Department
• Oakland Explorer (http://www.oaklandexplorer.com/) requires Macromedia Flash plugin - interactive map, select Downtown and go to Webster and 8th Streets in the middle of Chinatown. Click on parcel upper middle box; pan with mouse right lower box for panoramic views.
• The Untold Chinatown (A Photo Essay) (http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/baintro.html)] By Bruce Takeo Akizuki, Oakland, California (Selling Her Wares.. is from Oakland Chinatown)
• Asian & Pacific Islander Youth Violence Prevention Center (API Center} (http://www.api-center.org/)
  • Publications (http://www.api-center.org/information_sharing.html) includes several Oakland resources
• My Chinatown; An Indiana native gets an insider's view (http://www.alamedaapartments.com/chinatown.htm) San Francisco Chronicle 8/15/97
• Taste More Than China In Oakland's Chinatown (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/08/09/FD22151.DTL&type=printable) SF Chronicle August 9, 2000
• Oakland Chinatown Enjoying Renaissance (http://www.asianweek.com/090299/bay_oaklandchinatown.html) AsianWeek Sept 2, 1999
• Reclaimed Stories: Chinatown, Oakland Project (http://www.oaklandlibrary.org/PR/pr081904calStories.html) press release
• Chinese Historical Society of America (http://www.chsa.org/)
• Chinese in California, 1850-1920 (http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/chineseinca/index.html) Library of Congress' American Memory website