The CCBA is still important in Portland's Chinese community. Its public activities include business networking, festival observance, Mandarin classes, and similar. It's just a couple blocks from the Hop Sing Tong's building inChinatown.
Thanks. Although I have not spent much time in Portland (although I have heard good things), that is the way it is throughout the older Chinatowns of the USA and Canada. Incidentally someone wrote a major paper (I forget if it is a senior thesis or a master's thesis) on the Tong Wars of Portland and posted it on the web. A copy sits on my hard drive waiting to be read, and I was thrilled to death to see that my 1990s book, Tongs, Gangs, and Triads was in the bibliography, One of my goals is to write a fuller history of the tong wars in North America, but a couple months ago, as readers know, I discovered that
Chinatown in Portland is largely a ghost town. The only TCM apothecary is Iranian. Chinese owned businesses moved out of the urban core years ago. It's how things go, but it's kind of sad
The CCBA is still important in Portland's Chinese community. Its public activities include business networking, festival observance, Mandarin classes, and similar. It's just a couple blocks from the Hop Sing Tong's building inChinatown.
Thanks. Although I have not spent much time in Portland (although I have heard good things), that is the way it is throughout the older Chinatowns of the USA and Canada. Incidentally someone wrote a major paper (I forget if it is a senior thesis or a master's thesis) on the Tong Wars of Portland and posted it on the web. A copy sits on my hard drive waiting to be read, and I was thrilled to death to see that my 1990s book, Tongs, Gangs, and Triads was in the bibliography, One of my goals is to write a fuller history of the tong wars in North America, but a couple months ago, as readers know, I discovered that
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I would love to see that paper.
Chinatown in Portland is largely a ghost town. The only TCM apothecary is Iranian. Chinese owned businesses moved out of the urban core years ago. It's how things go, but it's kind of sad