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* NewYorkCity's Chinatown is in the southern part of Manhattan, next to Little Italy ([[CaptainObvious a very Italian neighborhood]]) and the Lower East Side (home of YiddishAsASecondLanguage). That whole area of the island used to be cheap housing, so a lot of immigrants could afford to live there, and they naturally formed communities based on common language. (This also probably explains the stereotype of Jews eating Chinese food.)
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* Washington DC has one. It features as a fixed address destination in just about every show set in DC, despite the fact that it's really puny. (Same with "the red-light district"). It has been gobbled up by Times Square-like entertainment complexes (it does have the [[CompensatingForSomething largest Chinese arch)... In order to compensate]], the city passed a law requiring all the non-chinese chain stores (and the German Cultural Center) to [[CompletelyMissingThePoint post signs in Chinese]].
* [[StargateCity Vancouver]] has one. It probably hasn't shown up in anything, but it's home to the skinniest building in the world (the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Kee_Building Sam Kee Building]]). A minor point of irony is that while Chinatown is still overwhelmingly Chinese, downtown is seen as a fairly "white" part of the Greater Vancouver Area, and the City of Richmond to the south is far more predominantly Asian.
* {{Toronto}} and Francisco both have large Chinese populations, and neighborhoods with Chinese signage.
* [[StargateCity Vancouver]] has one. It probably hasn't shown up in anything, but it's home to the skinniest building in the world (the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Kee_Building Sam Kee Building]]). A minor point of irony is that while Chinatown is still overwhelmingly Chinese, downtown is seen as a fairly "white" part of the Greater Vancouver Area, and the City of Richmond to the south is far more predominantly Asian.
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* Washington DC has one. It a Chinatown, which features as a fixed address destination in just about every show set in DC, despite the fact that it's really being ''really'' puny. (Same with "the red-light district"). It has been gobbled up by Times Square-like Its problem is that it's right next to the massive Verizon Center sports arena and entertainment complexes (it complex. Though, it does have the [[CompensatingForSomething largest Chinese arch)... In arch]], and in order to compensate]], prop up the bit of non-corporate culture in the area, the city has passed a law requiring all the non-chinese non-Chinese chain stores in the area (and the German Cultural Center) to [[CompletelyMissingThePoint post signs in Chinese]].
* [[StargateCityVancouver]] has one. It Vancouver]]'s Chinatown, which probably hasn't shown up in anything, but it's is home to the skinniest building in the world (the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Kee_Building Sam Kee Building]]). A minor point of irony is that while Chinatown is still overwhelmingly Chinese, downtown is seen as a fairly "white" part of the Greater Vancouver Area, and the City of Richmond to the south is far more predominantly Asian.
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* Twice in ''{{Castle}}''. The first time, the team travels to Chinatown to infiltrate an illegal gambling club with Russian mobsters. The second time, the team clashes with a Chinese mob family when they are connected to a murder involving a cop's stolen gun.
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* Historically, nearly every City and small town in California had a Chinatown (Pasadena and Santa Barbara's were single city blocks). Even [[DoomedHometown Bodie]] had one with a population of 228.
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* The San Francisco of {{Fallout}} prominently features a Chinatown, re-settled [[AfterTheEnd after the Great War]] by the crew of a Chinese submarine. It was a Chinatown before the war, too, but its inhabitants had fled or died before the Shi made landfall.
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* {{Boston}}'s Chinatown made an appearance in ''TheDeparted''; it used to have something of a reputation, but nowadays is no more dangerous than any other major urban center.
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* {{Seattle}}'s Chinatown, like Vancouver's, hasn't really appeared in anything, but like Boston's used to have a more unsavory rep, partly due to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wah_Mee_massacre the Wah Mee Massacre]]. Of interesting note is that Chinatown isn't even very Chinese; while the largest asian population within it ''is'' Chinese, there's still a very large amount of Vietnamese and Japanese scattered within it, along with every other conceivable Asian population. Again, however, like Vancouver, there are places in Seattle which are still more asian than the Chinatown: Beacon Hill comes to mind.
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Want to have [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triad]] members in a story? Have them in Chinatown. Ming dynasty vases being sold illegally? Chinatown. [[OpiumDen Opium Dens]]? Chinatown. People who [[IKnowKungFu know kung fu]]? Chinatown. You don't even need to leave your own city!
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Want to have [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triad]] members in a story? Have them in Chinatown. Ming dynasty vases being sold illegally? Chinatown. [[OpiumDen Opium Dens]]? Chinatown. People who [[IKnowKungFu [[AllAsiansKnowMartialArts know kung fu]]? martial arts]]? Chinatown. You don't even need to leave your own city!
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** Also inverted, when the family visit 'Americatown' while vacationing in Japan.
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* [[StargateCity Vancouver]] has one. It probably hasn't shown up in anything, but it's home to the skinniest building in the world (the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Kee_Building Sam Kee Building]]).
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* [[StargateCity Vancouver]] has one. It probably hasn't shown up in anything, but it's home to the skinniest building in the world (the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Kee_Building Sam Kee Building]]). A minor point of irony is that while Chinatown is still overwhelmingly Chinese, downtown is seen as a fairly "white" part of the Greater Vancouver Area, and the City of Richmond to the south is far more predominantly Asian.
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It is a known fact of social sciences that minority ethnic groups in a foreign country tend to bunch together, often for company and mutual protection.
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It is a known fact of social sciences that minority ethnic groups in a foreign country tend to bunch together, often for company and mutual protection.
protection -- not to mention, for new immigrants, being able to talk to people.
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* [[{{UsefulNotes/SaoPaulo}} São Paulo]] has Bairro da Liberdade which is something like this, but with a little twist, instead of {{Chinese people}} it has Japanese people.
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* A small portion of Millenium City in ChampionsOnline has a Chinatown aspect, complete with martial arts baddies (and a low level NPC vigilante group), fireworks at night, and at least one Temple Arch. No dragon dances, however.
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* TheWindyCity also has one, which too is imaginatively referred to as Chinatown.
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* The ''XFiles'' episode ''Hell Money'', one of the few episodes where the threat they face is largely unsupernatural (though still extremely weird). Chinese gangsters running a crooked betting parlour where desperate people wager away their eyeballs & internal organs. When these guys say "I left my heart in San Francisco", they ain't kidding!
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* Used extensively in ''PetShopOfHorrors'' and its sequel, ''New Pet Shop of Horrors'' (re-titled ''Tokyo Pet Shop of Horrors'' by Tokyopop). The beginning of the mangas and of each volume clearly underlines that Chinatown is a mysterious, thrilling, and dangerous place to which people are basically attracted like moths to flames. And they're full of [[UnfortunateImplications cruel exotic Chinese who might or might not be non-humans]].
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* ''Magnum, P.I.'' and ''Hawaii 5-0'' often had stories set in Honolulu's Chinatown, not the least reason being the distinctive '30s architecture and the (until recently, TruthInTelevision) dangerous and seedy reputation of the main street in Chinatown, Hotel Street. In fact, the Wo Fat building, a Chinatown landmark, had its name borrowed by ''Hawaii 5-0's'' production staff for one of their recurring villains, a [[RedChina Chinese communist agent]].
* Played with on the Simpsons which has had at various points a Chinatown (which picks on Tibettown), a Russia-town, Little Italy, "Guidopolis", Lower West Side (read: Yiddish) and at least half a dozen nonsensical 'ethnic' towns.
* Philadelphia has a large Chinatown that for some reason never appears in fiction. Except...
* In ''ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' the gang occasionally visit Philly's Chinatown. In one episode, the gang discusses how disappointed they are that Chinatown is nothing like ''BigTroubleInLittleChina'', and Charlie is astounded by a group of men passing fish back and forth on the sidewalk. In another episode, Charlie and Dee seek out exotic meat at a grotesque Chinatown butcher shop and purchase some monkey.
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* In ''ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' the gang occasionally visit Philly's Chinatown. In one episode, the gang discusses how disappointed they are that Chinatown is nothing like ''BigTroubleInLittleChina'', and Charlie is astounded by a group of men passing fish back and forth on the sidewalk. In another episode, Charlie and Dee seek out exotic meat at a grotesque Chinatown butcher shop and purchase some monkey.
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* ''Magnum, ''[[MagnumPI Magnum, P.I.'' ]]'' and ''Hawaii 5-0'' ''[[HawaiiFiveO Hawaii 5-0]]'' often had stories set in Honolulu's Chinatown, not the least reason being the distinctive '30s architecture and the (until recently, TruthInTelevision) dangerous and seedy reputation of the main street in Chinatown, Hotel Street. In fact, the Wo Fat building, a Chinatown landmark, had its name borrowed by ''Hawaii 5-0's'' production staff for one of their recurring villains, a [[RedChina Chinese communist agent]].
* Played with on the Simpsons which has had at various points a Chinatown (which picks on Tibettown), a Russia-town, Little Italy, "Guidopolis", Lower West Side (read: Yiddish) and at least half a dozen nonsensical 'ethnic' towns.
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* [[StargateCity Vancouver]] has one. This troper doesn't know if it's showed up in anything, but it's home to the skinniest building in the world (the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Kee_Building Sam Kee Building]]).
* The OpiumDen-filled Chinatown in CabCalloway's songs, such as ''Minnie the Moocher'' and ''Kickin' the Gong Around'', is at an unspecified city.
* Also unspecified is the location of the "funky Chinatown" in Carl Douglas' "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhUkGIsKvn0 Kung Fu Fighting]]"
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* The OpiumDen-filled Chinatown in CabCalloway's songs, such as ''Minnie the Moocher'' and ''Kickin' the Gong Around'', is at an unspecified city.
* Also unspecified is the location of the "funky Chinatown" in Carl Douglas' "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhUkGIsKvn0 Kung Fu Fighting]]"
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* [[StargateCity Vancouver]] has one. This troper doesn't know if it's showed It probably hasn't shown up in anything, but it's home to the skinniest building in the world (the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Kee_Building Sam Kee Building]]).
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