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The Chinatown–International District of Seattle, Washington (also known as the abbreviated CID) is the center of the city's Asian American community. Within the district are the three neighborhoods known as Chinatown, Japantown and Little Saigon, named for the concentration of businesses owned by people of Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese descent, respectively.
The Seattle riot of 1886 occurred on February 6–9, 1886, in Seattle, Washington, amidst rising anti-Chinese sentiment caused by intense labor competition and in the context of an ongoing struggle between labor and capital in the Western United States. The dispute arose when a mob affiliated with a local Knights of Labor chapter formed small ...
Chinese people were the first Asians to settle in Seattle, arriving directly from China or via San Francisco in the 1860s. The majority of these immigrants came from the area around Guangzhou (Canton). [2] They worked as fishermen, cannery and mill workers, miners, loggers, or domestic help. Later they worked on railroad construction and ...
Hing Hay Park. Hing Hay Park ( Chinese : 慶喜公園) is a 0.64-acre (2,600 m 2) public park in the Chinatown–International District neighborhood of downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. The park is located on the north side of South King Street between 6th and Maynard avenues, east of Union Station and the Historic Chinatown Gate.
Description and history. The 45-foot-tall (14 m) archway is located over South King Street east of 5th Avenue South and the International District/Chinatown light rail station, marking the west end of the Chinatown neighborhood. The gate, designed by Paul Wu and Ming Zhang of MulvannyG2 Architecture of Bellevue, Washington, [3] was built over a ...
The Wing Luke Museum is a museum in Seattle, Washington, United States, which focuses on the culture, art and history of Asian Pacific Americans. It is located in the city's Chinatown-International District. Established in 1967, the museum is a Smithsonian Institution affiliate and the only pan-Asian Pacific American community-based museum in ...
The East Kong Yick Building ( Chinese: 東公益大廈) [1] is one of two buildings erected in Seattle, Washington 's Chinatown-International District (ID) by the Kong Yick Investment Company (the other being the West Kong Yick Building ). A four-story hotel in the core of the ID, with retail stores at ground level, the East Kong Yick was ...
Canton Alley (Chinese: 廣州巷) is a historic alley between 7th and 8th Avenues South in Seattle's Chinatown–International District, in the United States.. Framed by the East Kong Yick Building and West Kong Yick Building, Canton Alley was once an active neighborhood space with apartments on the upper floors and small shops along both sides.