Chinese American enclaves in the San Gabriel Valley
Chinese ethnic communities in Los Angeles County, California, US / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Asian-American influx to the San Gabriel Valley grew rapidly when Chinese began settling in Monterey Park, California, in the western San Gabriel Valley in the 1970s. Just east of Los Angeles, the region has achieved international prominence as a hub of overseas Chinese, or hua qiao.[1][2] Although Chinese immigrants were a noteworthy presence in the establishment of Southern California from the 19th century, significant Chinese migration to suburban San Gabriel Valley coincided with a trend of white out-migration from the 1970s onward.[3] This opened an opportunity for middle-class Asian Americans to begin settling in the San Gabriel Valley.[4]
San Gabriel Valley | |||||||||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 圣盖博谷 | ||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 聖蓋博谷 | ||||||||||||||
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Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 圣加布里埃尔谷 | ||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 聖加布里埃爾谷 | ||||||||||||||
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Second alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 圣加百利谷 | ||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 聖加百利谷 | ||||||||||||||
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High property values, crime, and overcrowding in Monterey Park[5] have contributed to a secondary movement away from that city, and the Chinese community is now spread over a cluster of cities in the San Gabriel Valley. Suburban cities in the valley besides Monterey Park with large Chinese populations, also called ethnoburbs, include Alhambra, Arcadia, Rosemead, San Marino, San Gabriel, South Pasadena, and Temple City and then eastward to Chino Hills, Diamond Bar, the City of Industry, Hacienda Heights, Rowland Heights, Walnut, and West Covina.[1] Numerous Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Teochew, Shanghainese, and Cantonese speaking businesses have been established in these suburbs to accommodate the changing population.