San Francisco's Chinatown, the oldest Chinese enclave ... Chinese sentiment and broader anti-Asian legislation in the 19th century. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed to stop Chinese ...

The twenty-first century sedan zipping by ... but older than most buildings in the city and still reminiscent of a nebulous “old” San Francisco. The Chinatown buildings in the background and the ...

In the late 19th century, the Chinese suffered racial prejudice and San Francisco’s Chinatown, along with the rest of the country, sank into depression. In 1906, an earthquake destroyed much of ...

Smack in the middle of San Francisco's Chinatown, Portsmouth Square is a kaleidoscope of sounds, smells and colors. The cadence of Chinese dialects fills the air, and splashes of red and gold glow ...

Walking through San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1894 ... ability of Chinese immigrants to enter and stay in the late-19 th-century United States. The Exclusion Act and its extension (the 1892 ...

This resilient neighborhood remains a top San Francisco tourist destination ... Discriminatory laws against Chinese Americans in the 19th Century restricted where residents could build.

The San Francisco of the 19th Century exerts a romantic tug on the present day ... Or that “slumming tours” were once a popular pastime, where middle-class people were led through Chinatown’s opium ...

A San Franciscan’s landmark legal ... in federal court last week is ultimately upheld. Chinatown native Wong Kim Ark’s late-19th-century struggle to prove he lawfully belonged in his home ...

San Francisco's Chinatown, the oldest Chinese enclave ... Photographers from the late 19th and early 20th century flocked to Chinatown to capture images of the vibrant cultural enclave.

Photographers from the late 19th and early 20th century flocked ... At the turn of the 20th century, San Francisco's Chinatown "stood as a site of comparison: one between progress and stagnation ...