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Article: The Chinese suburban immigration and political diversity in Monterey Park, California.
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- Social Justice
- Article date:
- September 22, 1996
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You're from Los Angeles? Isn't that near Monterey Park?
- Heard in Taiwan
With only eight square miles and a population of about 63,000, Monterey Park is one of 84 cities incorporated within the administratively fragmented County of Los Angeles (4,090 square miles, more than nine million people). Not in the standard tourist guide, Monterey Park is nevertheless recognized by Chinese the world over as America's first suburban Chinatown, sometimes disdained as "Mandarin Park" by disgruntled Anglo, Latino, and Asian American old-time residents, and regularly monitored by politicians, reporters, and social scientists as a microcosm of the ethnic, economic, and ...