Legendary Palace restaurant at the corner of Franklin and 7th st in Oakland.

The Chinatown neighborhood in Oakland, California is a pan-Asian neighborhood which reflects Oakland's diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander community. It is frequently referred to as "Oakland Chinatown" in order to distinguish it from nearby San Francisco's Chinatown. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1944 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1944 pixel, file size: 1. ... Oakland, founded in 1852, is the eighth-largest city in California[1] and the county seat of Alameda County. ... Oakland, founded in 1852, is the eighth-largest city in California[1] and the county seat of Alameda County. ... This article deals primarily or exclusively with the definition of Asian in English-speaking countries, mainly referring to immigrants or descendants of immigrants living therein. ... A neighbourhood or neighborhood (see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community located within a larger city or suburb. ... An Asian American is a person of Asian ancestry or origin who was born in or is an immigrant to the United States. ... Pacific Islander (or Pacific Person, pl: Pacific People, also called Oceanic[s]), is a geographic term used in several places, such as New Zealand and the United States, to describe the inhabitants of any of the three major sub-regions of Oceania[1][2]. In New Zealand, the term is... An intersection of Chinatown in San Francisco. ...

Chinese were the first Asians to arrive in Oakland in the 1850s, followed by Japanese in the 1890s, Koreans in the 1900s, and Filipinos in the 1930s-1940s. Southeast Asians began arriving in the 1970s during the Vietnam War. Many Asian languages and dialects can be heard in Chinatown due to its diverse population. Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ... Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam People’s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000... There are a wide variety of languages spoken throughout Asia, comprising a number of families and unrelated isolate languages. ... A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language characteristic of a particular group of the languages speakers. ...

Chinatown is located in downtown Oakland, with its center at 8th and Webster st. Its northern edge is 14th street, and its southern edge is I-880 (located approximately at 6th street). It stretches from Broadway on the west to the southern tip of Lake Merritt in the east. Interstate 880 is a regional bypass interstate highway in the Bay Area metropolitan area of Northern California. ... Lake Merritt is a large tidal lagoon that lies just east of downtown Oakland, California. ...

History

Oakland Chinatown dates back to the arrival of 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. Image File history File links Oakland_chinatown_locator_map. ... Official website: http://www. ... The U.S. state of California is divided into 58 counties. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Counties, Cities, and Towns Other countries Politics Portal      The political units and divisions of the United States include: The 50 states, which are... This is an alphabetical list of the sovereign states of the world, including both de jure and de facto independent states. ... Oakland, founded in 1852, is the eighth-largest city in California[1] and the county seat of Alameda County. ... Official website: http://www. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... Though DST is common in Europe and North America, most of the worlds people do not use it. ... The Pacific Standard Time Zone is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). ... Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is a high-precison atomic time standard. ... PDT is UTC-7 The Pacific Time Zone observes standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC-8). ... Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is a high-precison atomic time standard. ... Latitude, usually denoted symbolically by the Greek letter phi, , gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the equator. ... Longitude, sometimes denoted by the Greek letter λ (lambda),[1][2] describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... The metre, or meter (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ... A Chinese American is an American who is of ethnic Chinese descent. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Chinatown patterns in North America. ... The Gov. ... This article refers to a railroad built in the United States between Omaha and Sacramento completed in 1869. ...

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.^[1] 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 ecological, economic, cultural, and aesthetic benefits. ... On a normal day, street vendors line Telegraph Avenue near the UC Berkeley campus. ... California State Highway 123 or San Pablo Avenue runs along the flats of the East Bay in California, from Oakland to Crockett, through: Emeryville, Berkeley, Albany, El Cerrito, Richmond, San Pablo, Pinole, Hercules, and Rodeo. ...

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. This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

The first Chinese in Oakland fished in the San Francisco Bay for shrimp similarly to the Chinese at China Camp near San Rafael.^[2] In 1868, 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. The Chinese Exclusion Act severely limited the further immigration of Chinese. By 1900, the Chinese in Oakland numbered less than 1,000. San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Golden Gate San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through 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 Procaridoidea Processoidea Psalidopodoidea Stylodactyloidea True shrimp are swimming, decapod crustaceans classified in the infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. ... Saint Raphael Church, one of the citys most recognizable landmarks San Rafael (IPA: ; originally IPA: ), is the county seat of Marin County, California, United States. ... Lake Temescal is a small lake in Oakland, California, and the centerpiece of Temescal Regional Park. ... Lake Chabot is a man made lake located in Castro Valley, California, formed by the damming of San Leandro Creek. ... Italian street, with laundry hung to dry 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. ... A cook is a person that prepares food for consumption. ... 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... A plate of vegetables Vegetable is a culinary term which generally refers to an edible part of a plant. ... A peddler, Brit. ... The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law passed on May 6, 1882, following 1880 revisions to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. ...

The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire destroyed most of San Francisco's Chinatown and more than 4000 Chinese survivors found refuge in Oakland. Even while San Francisco Chinatown was rebuilding, many stayed in Oakland bringing the Chinatown population to about 2,500. Because of immigration restrictions barring Chinese women and children, a bachelor society was created. Arnold Genthes famous photograph of San Francisco following the earthquake, looking toward the fire on Sacramento Street A statue of Louis Agassiz, a Swiss-American geologist, after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, on the campus of Stanford University. ... A bachelor is a man above the age of majority who has never been married (see single). ...

In the 1920s, Oakland Chinatown grew from 10th Street to the waterfront from Broadway to Harrison.

Even until 1940, the Chinatown population grew only to about 3,000. With the United States involvement in World War II and the fact that China was an ally, the Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed in 1943 but still had a quota of 105 persons a year. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

In 1950, Chinatown grew to a population of 5,500, but local housing was lost due to the construction of Interstate 880 which runs through 8 blocks between 5th and 6th Streets, Laney College (8 blocks) and later in the late 1960s, the Bay Area Rapid Transit headquarters and Lake Merritt station (2 blocks) and Oakland Museum of California (4 blocks). Interstate 880 (abbreviated I-880) is an interstate highway in the San Francisco Bay Area. ... Laney College is a community college located in Oakland, California. ... A westbound BART train with aerodynamic design A car in downtown San Francisco. ... The Lake Merritt Bay Area Rapid Transit station is located on Oak Street near Oaklands Lake Merritt and Chinatown, next to Laney College. ... Oakland Museum of California or Oakland Museum is a museum dedicated to the art, history, and natural science of California located in Oakland, California. ...

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 San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge ( ; known locally as the Bay Bridge) is a toll bridge which spans San Francisco Bay and links the California cities of Oakland and San Francisco in the United States, as part of Interstate 80. ... Chinese Cambodians are Cambodian citizens of Chinese descent. ... 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. ...

Although it is overshadowed by its well-known counterpart in San Francisco, 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." As is the case with other retail and commercial districts around Oakland, the many customers and thriving businesses in Chinatown generate tax revenue for city coffers Jewelry (the American spelling; spelled jewellery in Commonwealth English) consists of ornamental devices worn by persons, typically made with gems and precious metals. ...

The Japanese arrived in Oakland in the 1890s mostly in West Oakland around Market Street. Later, hundreds were living in the section between Harrison and Oak Streets south of 8th Street. They owned several stores in Chinatown. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, all Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps. The Masuda family had posted a large "I Am An American" sign outside their Oakland grocery store, Wanto Company, at 8th and Franklin Street.^[3] Many did not return to Oakland after the war ended. The Buddhist Church of Oakland is one of the few institutions remaining of Oakland's Japantown.^[4] West Oakland is a large neighborhood in Oakland, California. ... Combatants United States Empire of Japan Commanders Husband Kimmel (USN), Walter Short (USA) Chuichi Nagumo (IJN), Mitsuo Fuchida (IJNAS), Shigekazu Shimazaki (IJNAS) Strength 8 battleships, 8 cruisers, 29 destroyers, 9 submarines, ~50 other ships, ~390 planes 6 aircraft carriers, 9 destroyers, 2 battleships, 2 heavy cruisers, 1 light cruiser, 8... Serving from 1999 to 2003, Army General Eric Shinseki of Hawaii became the first Asian American military chief of staff. ... Jerome War Relocation Center in Jerome, Arkansas Japanese American Internment was the forced removal of approximately 120,000[1] Japanese and Japanese Americans (62 percent of whom were United States citizens)[2][3] from the West Coast of the United States during World War II. While approximately 10,000 were... Japantown is a common name for official Japanese American or Japanese Canadian communities in big cities. ...

People and culture

The residents of Oakland Chinatown include Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Cambodian, Laotian, Mien, Thai, Samoan and others. Consequently, many languages and dialects can be heard, including Cantonese, Chiu-Chow, Ilocano, Japanese, Khmer, Khmu, Korean, Lao, Malay, Mandarin, Mien, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Thai, Toishan, and Vietnamese. 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. ... Cantonese is a major dialect group or language of the Chinese language, a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. ... The Chaozhou language, also called Teochew, Teochiu, Tiuchiu, or Diojiu, is a dialect of the Chinese spoken variant of Minnan 閩南, spoken in the Chaoshan 潮汕 region of eastern Guangdong 廣東. // Chaozhou is a member of the Southern Min or Minnan dialect group, which in turn constitutes one of the seven major dialect... Ilokano (variants: Ilocano, Iluko, Iloco, and Iloko) is the third most-spoken language of the Republic of the Philippines. ... Khmer (ភាសាខ្មែរ) 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 reside in the Malay Peninsula, southern Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, central eastern Sumatra, the Riau islands, and parts of the coast of Borneo. ... Standard Mandarin – also known as Standard Chinese or Standard spoken Chinese – is the official Chinese spoken language used by the Peoples Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and Singapore. ... The Iu Mien language is one of the main languages spoken by the Yao people in China, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and more recently the USA. There are about 900,000 speakers in total. ... Tagalog (pronunciation: ) is one of the major languages of the Republic of the Philippines. ... Taiwanese (pe̍h-oē-jī: Tâi-oân-oē or Tâi-gí; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Táiyǔ, Táiwānhuà) is a dialect of Min Nan Chinese spoken by about 70% of Taiwans population. ... Toisanese or the Taishan dialect (台山話 Toisanese: Hoi4 saan6 wa1, Cantonese: toi4 saan1 wa6), or Seiyap (四邑), is a Chinese dialect (or group of very similar dialects) spoken in and around Taishan, in Guangdong province. ...

Annual cultural events and fairs

A crowded sidewalk during the 2006 Chinatown StreetFest.

• Chinese New Year (also known as Lunar New Year or Vietnamese Têt).

• 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.^[5]

• The Oakland Chinatown StreetFest has been held on the 4th weekend of August annually since 1988.^[6]

• Mid-Autumn Festival (also known as Moon Festival or Vietnamese Tết Trung Thu).

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Performing arts

Chinese opera was one of the first traditional Chinese art forms in Oakland. In 1907, a Chinese Theater at 9th and Franklin Streets opened which could seat 500 people and had a company of 30 full-time actors from China. Today, three styles of opera clubs are very active in Oakland: Cantonese opera. Beijing opera, and Kunqu. Emperor Xuan-Zong of Tang (left) and his Consort Yang Yuhuan (right) portrayed in a Chinese Opera 19th century Chinese opera Chinese opera costumes Some athletic jump Chinese opera is a popular form of drama in China. ... Cantonese opera is one of the major categories in Chinese opera, originating in southern Chinas Cantonese culture. ... Beijing opera or Peking opera (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ) is a kind of Chinese opera which arose in the mid-19th century and was extremely popular in the Qing Dynasty court. ... Kunqu (崑曲; pinyin: Kūnqǔ; Wade-Giles: kun-chü), also known as Kunju, Kun opera or Kunqu Opera, is the oldest extant form of Chinese opera. ...

Libraries

The Asian Branch Library is one of many of Oakland Public Library's branches and is located in Chinatown's "Pacific Renaissance Plaza."^[7] 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.

Notable natives and residents

• Bruce Lee, martial artist, actor
• Fred Korematsu resisted, and then challenged in court, the forced internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II (See Korematsu v. United States for more information.)
• Rodney Yee, yoga instructor
• Amy Tan, author
• Dong Kingman (1911-2000), watercolorist, created paintings for Flower Drum Song and The World of Suzie Wong
• Dr. Charles Goodall 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
• Frank Chin, writer
• March Fong Eu, politician
• Matt Fong, politician
• Ben Fong-Torres, journalist, author, radio personality
• Maxine Hong Kingston, writer of The Woman Warrior and China Men
• Wendy Yoshimura watercolor artist

Bruce Lee (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; Pinyin: Lǐ XiÇŽolóng; Cantonese Yale: Léih Síulùhng; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Chinese American martial artist, instructor, and martial arts actor widely regarded as one of the most influential martial artists of the twentieth century. ... This article is about Fred Korematsu. ... Holding The exclusion order leading to Japanese American Internment was constitutional Court membership Chief Justice: Harlan Fiske Stone Associate Justices: Owen Josephus Roberts, Hugo Black, Stanley Forman Reed, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, Frank Murphy, Robert H. Jackson, Wiley Blount Rutledge Case opinions Majority by: Black Joined by: Stone, Reed... Rodney Yee has appeared in many books, DVDs, and calendars. ... Amy Tan (Chinese: 譚恩美; pinyin: Tán Ä’nmÄ›i; born February 19, 1952) is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and what it means to grow up as a first generation Asian American. ... Dong Kingman (Simplified Chinese: , 31 March 1911 - 12 May 2000) was a Chinese American artist. ... Flower Drum Song was originally a novel by Chinese American author 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. ... Dr. Charles Goodall Lee (1881-1973), dentist, first licensed Chinese dentist who financed the lodge building of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance in Oakland, California. ... 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. ... // Lew Hing Lew Hing, American businessman and industrialist. ... Frank Chin (趙健秀; pinyin: Zhào Jiànxiù) (born February 25, 1940) is a Chinese-American author and playwright. ... 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 (鄺杰靈) is a Republican politican from California. ... Ben Fong-Torres (方振豪; pinyin: Fāng Zhènháo; born January 7, 1945, in Alameda, California) is a rock journalist, author, and broadcaster best known for his association with Rolling Stone magazine (through 1981) and the San Francisco Chronicle (from around 1982). ... Maxine Hong Kingston Maxine Hong Kingston (湯婷婷; born October 27, 1940) is a Chinese American writer. ... The cover of the Vintage International hardcover edition of The Woman Warrior. ... Wendy Masako Yoshimura (born January 17, 1943) is a watercolor artist living in Oakland, California. ...

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. Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ...

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Signs in Chinatown are translated into Chinese as well as English.

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. The entrance to the Webster Tube, which carries traffic underneath the estuary, is on the edge of Chinatown. Unlike many Chinatowns, it has no formal arch (Paifang) or gate, but it does have bilingual street signs. Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x1944, 1534 KB) Uploading image of Chinatown, Oakland, California I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x1944, 1534 KB) Uploading image of Chinatown, Oakland, California I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Interstate 880 (abbreviated I-880) is an interstate highway in the San Francisco Bay Area. ... Laney College is a community college located in Oakland, California. ... The Posey Tube is an underwater tunnel connecting the cities of Oakland and Alameda, California, running beneath the Alameda-Oakland Estuary. ... It has been suggested that Voussoir, Keystone (architecture) be merged into this article or section. ... One of the formal entrances or Paifang to Chinatown in London, England. ... A gate is a point of entry to a space enclosed by walls, or an opening in a fence. ... The term bilingualism (from bi meaning two and lingua meaning language) can refer to rather different phenomena. ... Unused traffic signs in Austria Most countries post signage, known as traffic signs or road signs, at the side of roads to impart information to road users. ...

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 or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

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.

Government

Representatives

• United States Senate represented by Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer
• United States House of Representatives District 9 represented by Barbara Lee
  • California State Assembly District 16 represented by Wilma Chan^[8]
  • California State Senate District 9 represented by Don Perata
    • Alameda County District 3 (Fruitvale, San Antonio, Chinatown portions of Oakland, San Leandro, Alameda, San Lorenzo, Ashland, Hillcrest Knolls) represented by Alice Lai-Bitker^[9]
      • Oakland City Council^[10] District 2 (Grand Lake-Chinatown)^[11] which is represented by Patricia Kernighan who won the May 17, 2005 mail-only election^[12] to fill the vacancy left by Danny Wan who resigned January 1, 2005.

Seal of the U.S. Senate Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures State Courts Counties, Cities, and Towns Other countries Politics Portal      Senate composition following 2006 elections The United States Senate is... Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (born June 22, 1933) is currently the senior U.S. Senator from California, holding office as a Senator since 1992. ... Barbara Levy Boxer (born November 11, 1940) is an American politician and the current junior U.S. Senator from the State of California. ... Seal of the House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives (or simply the House) is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress, the other being the Senate. ... Barbara Lee Barbara Lee (born July 16, 1946), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1998, representing the 9th District of California (map). ... The California State Assembly chamber California State Assembly Chamber in the State Capitol The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature. ... California state Senate chamber California State Senate Chamber in the State Capitol The California State Senate is the upper house of the California State Legislature. ... Don Perata (born April 30, 1945) is a California Democratic politician, who is the current President Pro Tempore of the California State Senate. ... Official website: http://www. ... Grand Lake, or the Grand Lake District, is a neighborhood of Oakland, California. ...

Police and fire

Oakland Fire Department, Engine Company No. 12 is located at 822 Alice Street at 9th Street.^[13] 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. A fire apparatus, fire engine or fire truck or fire appliance usually refers to a vehicle designed to fight fires. ... A fire station is a building or other area set aside for storage of firefighting apparatus i. ...

Chinatown is in Oakland Police Department's Beat 3X.^[14] The Community Services Section hosts the Asian Advisory Committee on Crime and the Asian Youth Services Committee.^[15][16]

The Chinatown Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council meets monthly. Meetings are conducted in Cantonese.

Infrastructure

Transportation

A crowded Chinatown Sidewalk.

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. Weekday and everyday commerce in the area creates thousands of peak period private automobile trips daily and resulting air pollution impacts on the neighborhood's elderly residents. Over 20,000 shoppers and tourists use its sidewalks every weekend. The traffic on I-880 is over 100,000 cars per day. The neighborhood is served by a freeway on-ramp to I-880 south at 5th and Oak Street. It is also is served by a freeway on-ramp to I-980 at 6th and Jackson. Recently Oakland's Public Works Agency reconfigured travel lanes on Jackson Street to separate traffic travelling South on Jackson from traffic merging-into Jackson from Eastbound 7th Street. This effectively eliminated, through lane re-marking, any possibility of the lost art of the "alternating merge." The volume of automobile traffic travelling away from the core of Chinatown on 7th street towards the freeway connections was so voluminous and unrelenting, that accidents were occurring. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1944 pixel, file size: 731 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Uploading image of crowded Chinatown sidewalk File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1944 pixel, file size: 731 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Uploading image of crowded Chinatown sidewalk File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Posey Tube is an underwater tunnel connecting the cities of Oakland and Alameda, California, running beneath the Alameda-Oakland Estuary. ... Interstate 80 (Eastshore Freeway) in Berkeley, a typical American freeway (MUTCD definition) A freeway is a type of highway that is designed for safer high-speed operation of motor vehicles through the elimination of at-grade intersections. ...

Chinatown has the highest number of automobile-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.^[17][18] A Barnes Dance in New York City near the New York Public Library. ...

Oakland is served by several AC Transit bus lines which run on 7th, 8th, 11th, 12th, Broadway, and Franklin Streets. Many visitors to the neighborhood use nearby mass transit connections. AC Transit (in full, Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District) is a regional bus agency serving parts of Alameda County and Contra Costa County in the eastern 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. ... Station entrance Station platform Oakland City Center/12th Street is an underground Bay Area Rapid Transit station located at 12th Street and Broadway next to the Oakland City Center in downtown Oakland. ... The Lake Merritt Bay Area Rapid Transit station is located on Oak Street near Oaklands Lake Merritt and Chinatown, next to Laney College. ...

Education

Chinatown includes:

• Lincoln Elementary School (K-5) is the local public "American school" and governed by the Oakland Unified School District.^[19]

• The Mun Fu Yuen "Chinese school" has after school classes in Cantonese Chinese language and culture at the Oakland Chinese Community Center on 9th Street at Harrison.

• The Lighthouse Community Charter School started in the 2004 - 2005 school year 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.^[20]

• Laney College is a community college located at the south end of Chinatown. Course offerings include Asian and Asian-American Studies, Chinese language, Japanese language, and Chinese Opera (Music Department).

• Cal State East Bay has the Oakland Professional Development and Conference Center at Broadway and 11th Street. Continuing education courses includes a certificate program in Teaching Chinese as a Heritage or Other Language.

Lincoln Elementary School is part of the Oakland Unified School District. ... 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 student practices writing Chinese characters In Western countries like the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom, a Chinese school is a school established explicitly for the purpose of teaching the Chinese language (of the various Chinese dialects, nowadays Mandarin Chinese or Cantonese Chinese is almost always the... Laney College is a community college located in Oakland, California. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Junior college. ... Ethnic studies is an academic discipline dedicated to the study of ethnic minorities. ... California State University, East Bay (also known as CSUEB, Cal State East Bay, and formerly known as California State University, Hayward) is a campus of the California State University system. ... Continuing education may refer to one of two types of education. ...

References

Books

• Bagwell, Beth (1994). Oakland, the Story of a City. ISBN 0-9640087-1-8 (HC) or ISBN 0-9640087-0-X (PB)
• Collins, Willie R. (Ed.) (1994). Chinese traditional arts and folklore in Oakland. City of Oakland Cultural Arts Division's Traditional Arts Program.
• Ma, Eve Armentrout and Ma, Jeong Huei (1982). The Chinese of Oakland: Unsung Builders Oakland Chinese History Research Committee.
• National Park Service History. A History of Chinese Americans in California. Retrieved June 7, 2005.
• Wa Sung Community Service Club. Oakland Chinatown Community Directory 2005.
• Wong, William (2004). Oakland's Chinatown (Images of America: California). Arcadia Publishing ISBN 0-7385-2925-7 AsianWeek review San Francisco Chronicle review

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Websites

1. ^ Oakland's Old Uptown Chinatown
2. ^ China Camp State Park
3. ^ "I Am An American" photo by Dorothea Lange
4. ^ Buddhist Church of Oakland website
5. ^ International Dragon Boat Association
6. ^ Oakland Chinatown StreetFest website
7. ^ Asian Branch Library website
8. ^ California Assembly District 16
9. ^ About Alice Lai-Bitker - District 3 - Board of Supervisors - Alameda County
10. ^ City of Oakland Officials
11. ^ City Council District 2 map
12. ^ KTVU.com - News - Kernighan Elected To Oakland City Council
13. ^ Oakland Fire Department: Home
14. ^ Beat 3x website
15. ^ Asian Youth Service Committee
16. ^ Community Services Section at http://oaklandpolice.com
17. ^ UC Berkeley Pedestrian scramble evaluation
18. ^ Allyson K. Bechtel, Kara E. MacLeod, and David R. Ragland, "Oakland Chinatown Pedestrian Scramble: An Evaluation" (December 17, 2003). U.C. Berkeley Traffic Safety Center. Paper UCB-TSC-RR-2003-06. http://repositories.cdlib.org/its/tsc/UCB-TSC-RR-2003-06
19. ^ Lincoln Elementary School website
20. ^ Lighthouse Community Charter School website

Further reading

• Ah-Tye, Howard (1999). Resourceful Chinese. Matai Group.
• Chann, Ernest (1976). "Brief History of Oakland Chinatown." Unpublished monograph. At Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Room.
• Chow, Willard T. (June 1, 1977). The Reemergence of an Inner City: The Pivot of Chinese Settlement in the East Bay Region of the San Francisco Bay Area. R & E Pub. ISBN 0-88247-457-X
• Ma, L. Eva Armentrout (January 1, 2001). Hometown Chinatown: A History of Oakland's Chinese Community, 1852-1995. (Asian Americans). Garland Publishing. ISBN 0-8153-3760-4

See also

• List of named ethnic enclaves in North American cities
• Jack London Square
• Lakeside Apartments District
• Oakland City Center
• Old Oakland

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External links

• Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce
• Oakland Chinatown Interactive Map: Oakland Convention and Visitors Bureau
• Oakland Chinatown Without Bounds
• Stop Chinatown Evictions Coalition - Oakland Tenants Union
• Chinatown Community Information Book 2001, Alameda County Public Health Department
• Oakland Explorer 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) By Bruce Takeo Akizuki, Oakland, California (Selling Her Wares.. is from Oakland Chinatown)
• Asian & Pacific Islander Youth Violence Prevention Center (API Center)
  • Publications includes several Oakland resources
• My Chinatown; An Indiana native gets an insider's view San Francisco Chronicle 8/15/97
• Taste More Than China In Oakland's Chinatown SF Chronicle August 9, 2000
• Oakland Chinatown Enjoying Renaissance AsianWeek Sept 2, 1999
• Reclaimed Stories: Chinatown, Oakland Project press release
• Chinese Historical Society of America
• Chinese in California, 1850-1920 Library of Congress' American Memory website