Chinatown (Location)
The General Idea
Social, political, and ethnic enclave in the heart of San Francisco is also the seat of a powerful something
Aspects
- A Dragon coils round my borders
The Face
Related Faction
Address
613 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94108
Is Neighborhood
Chinatown
Description
San Francisco's Chinatown is the oldest Chinatown in North America and the largest Chinese community outside Asia. Since its establishment in the 1840s, it has been highly important and influential in the history and culture of ethnic Chinese immigrants to the United States and North America.
Chinatown is an active enclave that continues to retain its own customs, languages, places of worship, social clubs, and identities. Popularly known as a "city-within-a-city", it has developed its own government, traditions, over 300 restaurants, and as many shops. There are two hospitals, numerous parks and squares, a post office, and other infrastructure. Visitors can easily become immersed in a microcosmic Asian world, filled with herbal shops, temples, pagoda roofs and dragon parades. In addition to it being a starting point and home for thousands of Chinese immigrants, it is also a major tourist attraction -- drawing more visitors annually to the neighborhood than the Golden Gate Bridge.
Editor's Notes
In a rare departure from the "real" world, The Dragon Gate in this version of San Francisco is at the intersection of California and Grant, instead of Bush and Grant.
