Sydney's Chinatown

Market City

Sydney's Chinatown is located within the southern central business district of the City of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia, in the Haymarket area between Central Station and Darling Harbour. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2056x1488, 661 KB) Summary Chinatown, Sydney, taken in November 2005 by me. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2056x1488, 661 KB) Summary Chinatown, Sydney, taken in November 2005 by me. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2254x1654, 636 KB) Summary Market City building, Chinatown, Sydney, taken by me in November 2005 Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2254x1654, 636 KB) Summary Market City building, Chinatown, Sydney, taken by me in November 2005 Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and with a population of over four million people is the most populous city in Australia. ... New York City is home to three of the largest Chinatowns in North America. ... The central business district of Melbourne, Australia. ... This article is about the local government area. ... Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Nickname: First State, Premier State Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Governor Premier Const. ... Haymarket is an area at the southern end of the central business district of Sydney, Australia, and is adjacent to Darling Harbour. ... Clock tower of Central Station Central (also known as Sydney Terminal) is the largest railway station in Sydney, Australia, which services almost all of the lines on the CityRail network, and is the major terminus for intercity and interstate rail services. ... Darling Harbour is a large recreational pedestrian precinct situated on the western edge of central Sydney, Australia. ...

The current area is the third in Sydney to be known as Chinatown: in the late 19th century, it was located in the Rocks area of Sydney, it later moved to the area near Market Street at Darling Harbour and finally, by the 1920s, it had began to be established in its current location. George Street, the main street of The Rocks The Rocks is a tourist precinct and historic area near the central business district (CBD) of Sydney, Australia. ... Darling Harbour is a large recreational pedestrian precinct situated on the western edge of central Sydney, Australia. ... Referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America and in Australia as the Roaring Twenties . In Europe it is sometimes refered to as the Golden Twenties. ...

The Chinatown is centred around Dixon Street, a pedestrian street mall with many Chinese restaurants, and with a Paifang at each end. At the eastern side, running parallel with Dixon Street, are Sussex Street, which has a number of shops, and George Street, one of Sydney's main thoroughfares. At the eastern end of Chinatown, at the corner of George Street and Hay Street, there is a sculpture made from a tree stump; named Golden Water Mouth, it is said to bring good fortune to the Chinese community. One of the formal entrances or Paifang to Chinatown in London, England. ... The start of George Street in the historic Rocks district George Street is the main street of the city of Sydney, Australia. ... Fēng Shuǐ (風水 – literally, wind and water pronounced fung shuway), which may be more than 3000 years old, is the ancient practice of placement to achieve harmony with the environment. ...

At the southern side of Chinatown, next to Hay Street, a large complex (Market City) has recently been built incorporating the walls retained from the site's previously existing produce markets. It contains a modern shopping centre, restaurants, boutique shops, a cinema complex, and a Friday-to-Sunday flea market known as Paddy's Market, as well as a large residential tower. A typical flea market shop A flea market, also known as a swap meet, is a place where vendors come to sell their goods. ...

Unlike the Chinatowns in some other countries, Sydney's Chinatown has been relatively free of crime and hygiene issues, and is a major tourist attraction in Sydney. However there are some concerns within the Chinese community about the building height restrictions imposed by the image-conscious local government authorities.

There are also satellite Chinatowns that have emerged in the past two decades in several Sydney suburbs such as Ashfield, Cabramatta, Hurstville and Eastwood. But Sydney's Chinatown still remains a major focus for the Chinese Australian community. Ashfield (pop. ... Cabramatta is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia, 32 km south-west of the Sydney. ... Hurstville is a suburb in the City of Hurstville, in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... // Location Eastwood (Postcode 2122, S33. ... Sydneys Chinatown A Chinese Australian is an Australian of Chinese heritage. ...

Sydney City is the sister city of Guangzhou in China, and as a gift to Sydney in Australia's Bicentennial year (1988), the Chinese Garden of Friendship was constructed on the western border of Chinatown in the Darling Harbour Precinct. It is one of the few public traditional Chinese gardens outside of China. This article is about partnerships between towns distant from each other; see Twin cities for the different concept of physically neighbouring cities. ... Location within China Canton, China redirects here. ... An anniversary is a day that commemorates an event that occurred on the same day of the year some time in the past. ...

Further reading

• Shirley Fitzgerald. Red Tape, Gold Scissors ("the story of Sydney's Chinese"). Paperback, 206 pages. Published 1997 by State Library of New South Wales Press in association with The City of Sydney. ISBN 0731066073.

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External links

• Chinatown Sydney
• Chinese Garden of Friendship, Darling Harbour
• “Eastern promise spreads to the suburbs,” The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 September 2002.