AsiaTown Cleveland (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Alan F. Dutka | knygos.lt

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For years,
Cleveland’s Chinese residents struggled to find a secure place in the city.
Immigrants came with dreams of building a better life, but without English
proficiency, prospects dimmed, and émigrés often earned poor pay for long hours
of strenuous work. In 1925, Cleveland police responded to an especially brutal
outbreak of the tong war violence ravaging the community by arresting every
Chinese person in the city, creating an international scandal. In spite of the
anti-Asian sentiment of the time, the community persevered and paved the way
for its current entrepreneurial success. Today, Clevelanders and tourists
travel to the growing AsiaTown neighborhood to enjoy authentic Asian dinners,
shop at Asian-owned stores and enjoy Asian-themed karaoke nights in newly built
malls and century-old former residential homes. Alan F. Dutka vividly portrays
one of the oldest and most culturally diverse neighborhoods in the city.