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Chinatown, U.S.A.

Photos of Chinese communities throughout the U.S.

Chinatown: 'This is the safest community in Seattle'

Summary of the recent housing developments in the Chinatown/International District and police belief that, in spite of Wah Mee massacre, the worst problem is street alcoholics.

Chinatown: A Portrait of a Closed Society

Gwen Kinkead's fascinating book is an explanation of a mystery: Chinatown. In the first book in fifty years to break the code of silence about New York's Chinatown, Kinkead offers us an intimate portrait of an exciting community that is also one of…

Chinatown: Tongs have little control over today's street youths

Article interviews anonymous, formerly troubled youth who robbed Bing Kung Gambling House in 1977. Anonymous interviewee is now out of trouble and working, he discusses difficulties that new youth immigrants face and why they join gangs.

Chinatown's heart to house new museum

Within the Kong Yick buildings are the stories of thousands of new immigrants.

Chinatown/International District

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Chinatown/International District looking east

Chinese adapt to American life in post-war Seattle

Part 5 of six of a series Post War Chinese American History in Seattle, with a focus on where Chinese Americans have settled.