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Friendly Local Chinatown
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It is a known fact of social sciences that minority ethnic groups in a foreign country tend to bunch together, often for company and mutual protection — not to mention, for new immigrants, being able to talk to people. In the American West through the 1880s and '90s, mob violence against the "heathen Chinee" living in smaller towns led to the survivors' leaving to live in a few enclaves in the larger cities. One manifestation of this is "Chinatowns", which feature in countless cities worldwide. Streets with paifang arches at the entrance, full of Chinese restaurants, shops, acupuncturists, and so on, they have become a rich source for scriptwriters (who for some reason have not noticed how modern day Chinatowns have become mostly pan-Asian affairs, with Chinese herbal stores, Japanese electronic stores, and Vietnamese noodle shops all next to each other). Want to have Triad members in a story? Have them in Chinatown. The odd Priceless Ming Vase being sold illegally? Chinatown. Opium Dens? Chinatown. People who know martial arts? Chinatown. You don't even need to leave your own city! Additional note: if someone is trying to skip town in the Northeastern US, they may end up in Chinatown for the notorious—but cheap and until recently little-known—bus services. Expect a dragon dance at some point even though those are only done during Chinese New Year. |
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Episode 2 of Sherlock deals with a tong gang searching for a Chinese artifact stolen by a smuggler. | |
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Wonder Woman (1987): Maxine Sterenbuch is sent to Boston's Chinatown as part of an attempt by Henry Armbuster to murder her so she can't interfere with his manipulation of her friend Valerie Beaudry. She ends up rescued and then kidnapped by Solomon instead. | |
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Racing Lagoon has a street racing gang residing in the local Chinatown of South Yokohama, where they holds drag-race tournaments. | |
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A small portion of Millenium City in Champions Online has a Chinatown aspect, complete with martial arts baddies (and a low level NPC vigilante group), fireworks at night, and at least one Temple Arch. No dragon dances, however. | |
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Amy Tan uses San Francisco's Chinatown as a setting for some of her stories. Waverly in The Joy Luck Club is named for Waverly Place. You can briefly see some Chinatown streets in the Young Waverly sequence of the film version. Mrs. Louie in The Kitchen God's Wife lives and has her flower shop there. | |
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Spoofed in one Treehouse of Horror episode when they visit an immigrant neighborhood generically named "Ethnictown". Its residents include a Romani witch and an Irish leprechaun. | |
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Philadelphia has a large Chinatown that for some reason never appears in fiction. Except in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia the gang occasionally visit Philly's Chinatown. In one episode, the gang discusses how disappointed they are that Chinatown is nothing like Big Trouble in Little China, and Charlie is astounded by a group of men passing fish back and forth on the sidewalk. In another episode, Charlie and Dee seek out exotic meat at a grotesque Chinatown butcher shop and purchase some monkey. | |
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Played with in The Simpsons, which has had at various points a Chinatown (which picks on Tibettown), a Russiatown, Little Italy, "Guidopolis", Lower West Side (read: Yiddish), and at least half a dozen nonsensical 'ethnic' towns. Spoofed in one Treehouse of Horror episode when they visit an immigrant neighborhood generically named "Ethnictown". Its residents include a Romani witch and an Irish leprechaun. Also inverted, when the family visit a restaurant called "Americatown" while vacationing in Tokyo, Japan. |
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Like a Dragon: Little Asia, a particularly dense city block in Kamurocho, is home to just about every non-Japanese person of Asian origin in the place. It has been featured in nearly all games - for example, in Yakuza 0 Tachibana Tetsu who is of mixed Chinese/Japanese origin uses it as a hideout, and in Yakuza 4, police officer Tanimura, even though he's ethnically Japanese, is stated to have grown up in there and there for is the Omniglot and has several sidequests regarding helping people with immigration issues or generally protecting the place through means of varying legality. In said game you can even find a married couple solving their fights over cheating with Kung Fu. When you explore the place, even though there are quite a few ethnic food places, the whole thing looks dreary, being a crammed city block smack dab in a Wretched Hive. Yakuza: Like a Dragon features a rivalry between the Chinatowns in Yokohama. There is the touristy Chinatown where it's basically The Theme Park Version of this trope, and the people there enjoy a good quality of life and tourist traffic. And then there is the Yokohama Liumang territory, which is made up of people who got kicked out of the former Chinatown back when it was first forming and said people's descendants. Many of them are illegal immigrants or the children of those (and therefore do not legally exist), the area is obviously poor, they are quite racist towards the Japanese and there are Liumang gangsters openly walking around. There is also a Korean town that's shrouded in mystery; all that's known about it is that the gang that controls it is called Geomijul, and the Korean shops there don't look like anything special. It turns out that the real Korea town is hidden underground and is accessible via tunnels, though you never get to visit it since its existence is top secret. |
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Abacus: Small Enough to Jail is a documentary about Abacus Federal Savings and Loan, a bank founded by Chinese-American Tom Sung to serve the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan, which was prosecuted for crimes committed during the 2008 financial crisis. Much attention is given to the close-knit nature of the Chinatown community. | |
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Twice in Castle. The first time, the team travels to Chinatown to infiltrate an illegal gambling club with Russian mobsters. The second time, the team clashes with a Chinese mob family when they are connected to a murder involving a cop's stolen gun. | |
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In The Love Bug, when Herbie runs away, Jim Douglas finds him hiding underneath a dragon in a parade at San Francisco's Chinatown. Herbie flees upon getting spotted, inadvertently smashing the grocery store belonging to Chinese-American businessman Mr. Wu, who becomes Jim's benefactor in the climactic El Dorado race. | |
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Magnum, P.I. and Hawaii Five-O often had stories set in Honolulu's Chinatown, not the least reason being the distinctive '30s architecture and the (until recently, Truth in Television) dangerous and seedy reputation of the main street in Chinatown, Hotel Street. In fact, the Wo Fat building, a Chinatown landmark, had its name borrowed by Hawaii 5-0's production staff for one of their recurring villains, a Chinese communist agent. | |
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MadWorld's second level is supposedly one of these, made up of a medley of Chinese and Japanese stereotypes. Jack's Voice with an Internet Connection snarks that "Asian-Town" looks like a more like a garish theme park attraction and doubts that its designers had ever actually been to a real Chinatown, let alone anywhere in Asia. | |
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The 1994 film version of The Shadow - it's where Cranston meets with Shiwan after the latter sends a mind-controlled Margo to Cranston's home. | |
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Parodied on Arrested Development with Wee Britain. | |
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Similar to the above, the first two Saints Row games have a Chinatown in Stilwater. | |
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Britsune Garden has Nihontown, a Japanese version of London’s Chinatown, due to the high population of Japanese immigrants and people with Japanese heritage (including the main characters themselves). | |
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This is what Wall Market basically is in Seventh Endmost Vision. The Wutai diaspora heavily settled the slums of Midgar after the Reactor meltdown in Wutai ruined it in the fic's backstory, and Wall Market has a heavy Wutai presence in the fic. The local gang, the Crimson Wings, even seem to mostly be Yakuza types, though unusually they are led by a white woman, Scarlet; given the particulars of the fic's ethnic relations, though, her being a Midgardian probably makes her acceptable. Given she hides her identity under "the Rosso" to the point that no one even knows her gender, much less her ethnicity, it never comes up. | |
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The Grand Theft Auto series has featured fictional counterparts of San Francisco's and New York City's Chinatowns. Grand Theft Auto V even had a Koreatown, based off of the one in Los Angeles. | |
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Deadwood: the town of Deadwood has a sizable Chinese population who are usually called "celestials, referring to the "Celestial Empire" of China. They live in "Celestial Alley," and are ruled by Mr. Wu, who runs a laundry (to clean out bloodstains), owns pigs (for handy corpse disposal), and sells opium. | |
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The Night Mayor is set in the City, a virtual realm based on Film Noir movies, which has its own Chinatown full of thieves, opium dens and corrupt officials. | |
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Turning Red: Much of the film is set in Toronto's Chinatown. It is depicted fairly faithfully with the major exception of Chinese lanterns being strung up above the streets. | |
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The Dinosaur King episode "Beast or Famine" ("Dinosaur Hotel" in Japanese), took place in one of Japan's Chinatowns. | |
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Polanski's Chinatown, of course, though it appears as a setting only briefly. | |
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Kiss of the Dragon starring Jet Li partly takes place in Paris' 13th arrondissement, the city's Chinatown basically. | |
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent: Chinatown is a fairly common setting, such as in the episode "Chinoiserie." Commonly the plots involve Chinese gangsters and illegal prostitutes. | |
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One of the levels in Batman Doom is set in Gotham's Chinatown. Buddhist iconography, paper lanterns and shuriken-tossing Asian thugs abound. | |
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BlazBlue has Orient Town, a city full of Chinese-related stuffs, as you can see them doing Chinese martial arts katas or some of them delivering meat buns being the background, and also the temporary home of Litchi Faye-Ling, whom the town seems very enarmored to. They're located at the 1st and 2nd game's setting, the 13th Hierarchical Town Kagutsuchi. | |
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The X-Files episode "Hell Money", one of the few episodes where the threat they face is largely unsupernatural (though still extremely weird). Chinese gangsters running a crooked betting parlour where desperate people wager away their eyeballs & internal organs. When these guys say "I left my heart in San Francisco", they ain't kidding! | |
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In Gremlins, Randall Peltzer buys Gizmo at the Chinatown in New York. In the sequel, Daniel Clamp is buying property there to build a shopping centre. | |
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The San Francisco of Fallout 2 prominently features a Chinatown, re-settled after the Great War by the crew of a Chinese submarine. It was a Chinatown before the war, too, but its inhabitants had fled or died before the Shi made landfall. | |
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Gangs of New York features the 1860s prototype to Chinatown. | |
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Little Asia, a particularly dense city block in Kamurocho, is home to just about every non-Japanese person of Asian origin in the place. It has been featured in nearly all games - for example, in Yakuza 0 Tachibana Tetsu who is of mixed Chinese/Japanese origin uses it as a hideout, and in Yakuza 4, police officer Tanimura, even though he's ethnically Japanese, is stated to have grown up in there and there for is the Omniglot and has several sidequests regarding helping people with immigration issues or generally protecting the place through means of varying legality. In said game you can even find a married couple solving their fights over cheating with Kung Fu. When you explore the place, even though there are quite a few ethnic food places, the whole thing looks dreary, being a crammed city block smack dab in a Wretched Hive. | |
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In Jackie Chan Adventures, the three main protagonists (Jackie, Jade, and Uncle Chan) are immigrants from Hong Kong who live and work in an antique shop (Uncle's Rare Finds) located in the Chinatown neighborhood of San Francisco. | |
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In Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Caine lives in the Chinatown area of the show's nameless city, and unsurprisingly much of the action takes place there. | |
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The Lucky Luke album "Rantanplan’s Inheritance" takes place in a Wild West Chinatown far beyond the scope of the usual lone resident Chinese Launderer. One other album has a town called Shanghai Gulch, where only people of Chinese extraction live (it's on the brink of economic collapse because the only activities people do there are either laundry or restaurants...). | |
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The 1920s Los Angeles Chinatown shows up a few times in Bride of the Rat God in lavish detail. | |
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Ip Man 4 is set in San Francisco's Chinatown. | |
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The heroine of Safe Haven flees to Philadelphia when escaping her abusive husband and heads to Chinatown, knowing she'll find cheap places to stay and plentiful waitressing jobs (it's the only skill she has). | |
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Tanguy features the French Chinatown, set in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. The title character briefly moves there, probably to indulge his Asiaphilia (he later moves to China proper). | |
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Flower Drum Song is about Chinese residents of "San Francisco, California, U.S.A." | |
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Subverted in Doctor Strange: The Oath, where Strange and Wong visit a disreputable pawnshop in Chinatown in search of a magical cure for Wong's ailment and nearly get mugged for their trouble. | |
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One of the neighborhoods in Sunset Overdrive's Sunset City is "Little Tokyo", complete with a large Japanese History Museum at its center. You wind up visiting there several times in the story, since the museum is where one of your allied groups, Troop Bushido, have made camp. | |
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NUMB3RS, using Los Angeles' real Chinatown | |
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Yakuza: Like a Dragon features a rivalry between the Chinatowns in Yokohama. There is the touristy Chinatown where it's basically The Theme Park Version of this trope, and the people there enjoy a good quality of life and tourist traffic. And then there is the Yokohama Liumang territory, which is made up of people who got kicked out of the former Chinatown back when it was first forming and said people's descendants. Many of them are illegal immigrants or the children of those (and therefore do not legally exist), the area is obviously poor, they are quite racist towards the Japanese and there are Liumang gangsters openly walking around. There is also a Korean town that's shrouded in mystery; all that's known about it is that the gang that controls it is called Geomijul, and the Korean shops there don't look like anything special. It turns out that the real Korea town is hidden underground and is accessible via tunnels, though you never get to visit it since its existence is top secret. | |
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Hetalia: Axis Powers has one on a deserted island. China has one built in the Allied Powers' conference room one day. It would seem China has a team on call to build one whenever he wants dumplings. |
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Used extensively in Pet Shop of Horrors and its sequel, New Pet Shop of Horrors (re-titled Tokyo Pet Shop of Horrors by Tokyopop). The beginning of the mangas and of each volume clearly underlines that Chinatown is a mysterious, thrilling, and dangerous place to which people are basically attracted like moths to flames. And they're full of cruel exotic Chinese who might or might not be non-humans. | |
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Likewise, Xiangfei from Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 has South Town's Chinatown as her stage. | |
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Little Shop of Horrors: Seymour regularly buys exotic plants at a discount flower shop in Chinatown, which is where he finds Audrey II. Implied in the stage version; definitely shown in the film version. | |
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Father Ted puts a Chinatown on Craggy Island. Which is odd, since Craggy Island usually seems like a small, eccentric backwater that shouldn't be able to attract or sustain that many immigrants. | |
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A level in The Matrix: Path of Neo is set in one of the Matrix's Chinatowns. Most of the buildings are covered with Chinese symbols and paper lanterns. You have to rescue a herbalist from police and Agents, with some brief help by a local gang. | |
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Parodied in The Dictator, where one of the places Aladeen goes after being deposed is New York's "Little Wadiya" neighborhood, whose population seems to be entirely made up of people Aladeen had ordered executed, but escaped and fled the country. | |
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Hitman: Absolution has a mission taking place in Chicago's Chinatown. | |
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Without a Trace | |
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The Digital World has a Chinatown, as revealed in an episode of Digimon Adventure 02. | |
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Emerson Cod's detective agency in Pushing Daisies is above a Chinese restaurant in their city's Chinatown. | |
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Lee Pai Long's stages from the first two Art of Fighting games were both located in South Town's Chinatown. | |
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The setting of Big Trouble in Little China, as the title implies. San Francisco's Chinatown, be to specific. | |
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Parasite Eve has one section of the game taking place in the actual Chinatown of New York City, although it is a very brief section before the much longer sewer portion. | |
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London's Chinatown plays a minor part in the Rivers of London books. It has its own magical protector, Michael Cheung, who has business cards saying "Legendary Swordsman". According to Nightingale, someone has served in Cheung's role since at least the sixties (and that might just be when the Folly found out about it), but the whimsical business cards are new. | |
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The Legend of Korra has a fantasy variant in Little Ba Sing Se in Republic City, a miniaturized version of the actual city in the Earth Kingdom, complete with mock walls. | |
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Family Guy: When the Griffins went on the run after breaking Lois out of prison (she'd gotten four years for shoplifting due to the judge getting angry at Peter), the family hid out in Asiantown. It even features it's own tv channel with a localized version of the Trix Rabbit, who beats the kids to death with martial arts for not sharing their cereal. | |
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In Kingdom of Loathing, you can visit one of these by using a psychoanalytic jar to view the Suspicious-Looking Guy's Shady Past. | |
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Being set in San Francisco, Charmed (1998) has the Halliwell sisters occasionally visit Chinatown to pick up ingredients for spells and potions. In some episodes, residents of Chinatown seek out the Charmed Ones' help to deal with a powerful supernatural threat. | |
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The Sopranos: The New York family that Tony's feuds with hangs out in Little Italy, which is rapidly being swallowed by Chinatown in real life. The characters comment on this. | |
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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines: One chapter of the game takes place in Chinatown. | |
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Dexter's Laboratory: In "Misfortune Cookie", Dexter and Dee-Dee are forced to visit the local Chinatown after they get stuck in a chinese finger trap Dee-Dee found in a box of fortune cookies. Dee-Dee acts like this trope is in effect, even though it's a normal neighborhood (the "ninja" they encounter is a guy buying a novelty costume, their mysterious quest is just running errands for a shop owner, and removing the finger trap is completely mundane, they just hadn't thought of it). | |
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