Chinatown, My Chinatown was a song written in 1910 with lyrics by William Jerome and music by Jean Schwartz. The tune has been recorded by Louis Armstrong, Muggsy Spanier, and many others and is considered a standard of Dixieland music.
The heavy metal band Thin Lizzy has an album and song called Chinatown.
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Chinatowns were formed in the 19th century in many areas of the United States and Canada as a result of discriminatory land laws which forbade the sale of any land to Chinese or restricted the land sales to a limited geographical area and which promoted the segregation of people of different ethnicities.
In the past, overcrowded Chinatowns in urban areas were shunned by the general non-Chinese public as ethnic ghettoes, and therefore seen as places of vice and cultural insularism where "unassimilable foreigners" congregated.
The Vancouver Chinatown is, sadly, in a decline because the criminal problem in the neighbouring area and because it is kind of replaced by the so-called new ChinaTown in Richmond.
In the past, overcrowded Chinatowns in urban areas were generally shunned by the non-Chinese public as ethnic ghettos, and seen as places of vice and cultural insularism where "unassimilable foreigners" congregated.
London's original Chinatown was established in the Limehouse district in the late 19th century as Chinese seamen established themselves in the city.
However, some Chinatowns that still do not have the arch feature are now increasingly proposing for the installation of one in their respective communities, such as the Chinatowns in the U.S. cities of Seattle (artistic renderings at http://www.chinatowngate.org) and Houston and the Canadian city of Toronto, as these arches is believed to increase tourist traffic.
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