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The Dallas-Fort Worth area has a population of Chinese Americans. ==History== The first person of Asian descent listed in the Dallas city directory is J.L. Chow; he began boarding at the Central Hotel in 1873. He opened the "Chow Chow Laundry" in 1874; it was located at 904 Elm Street. Additional Chinese residents came in the wake of a strike at Houston & Texas Central (H&TC). Most of the Chinese immigrants came from Southern China. Some Chinese established businesses such as laundries, and others worked as cooks and domestic servants in residences of white Dallasites. There were 15 Chinese laundries in Dallas by 1886. The city had 43 Chinese, including 41 laundry owners and workers, one physician, and a domestic servant, by 1891.〔Solamillo, p. (17 ) ((Archive )).〕 Chinese people had been listed in city directories with the marker "Chinese".〔Solamillo, p. (18 ) ((Archive )).〕 According to the 1900 U.S. Census Dallas County had 22 ethnic Chinese.〔Solamillo, p. (19 ) ((Archive ))-(20 ) ((Archive )).〕 A local directory published the same year stated that there were 25 ethnic Chinese in the City of Dallas. The number decreased, and the city had three Chinese living there by 1913.〔Solamillo, p. (20 ) ((Archive )).〕 By 1900 there was a grouping of businesses owned and operated by Chinese in the Downtown Dallas area. Stanley Solamillo, author of "From Half a World Away: The First Chinese in Dallas: 1873 - 1940," wrote that the frequency was "roughly the same" compared to the frequency of businesses owned and operated by Asians in Downtown Dallas in 2007.〔Solamillo, p. (16 ) ((Archive )).〕 The businesses were spread throughout Downtown instead of being concentrated in a "Chinatown," and there were other Chinese businesses in Oak Cliff and South Dallas.〔 A propaganda campaign against the Chinese laundries occurred in 1894 when negative articles appeared in ''The Dallas Herald'' and ''The Dallas Morning News''.〔 By 1896 the Chinese business operations diversified, but the Chinese businesses continued to operate businesses despite the propaganda campaign. By 1900 four laundries remained, and other businesses included groceries and restaurants.〔Solamillo, p. (19 ) ((Archive )).〕 By 1910 three Chinese restaurants were in Dallas, while no grocery stores were operated by the Chinese, and the number of businesses decreased after that point.〔 About 10 to 30 ethnic Chinese arrived in Dallas in the 1930s, making the second wave of immigration.〔Solamillo, p. (22 ) ((Archive )).〕 Esther Wu, a former editor of the ''Dallas Morning News'', stated that Chinese immigration began in Richardson in 1975. Since then the Chinese community has expanded to the north.〔Brenner, Leslie. "(Best in DFW: Chinese restaurants )" ((Archive )). ''The Dallas Morning News''. March 9, 2011. Updated February 10, 2013. Retrieved on September 22, 2014.〕 In the mid-1980s, most Chinese K-12 students in the DFW area resided in Richardson.〔Kripke, Pamela Gwyn. "(Why 30,000 Chinese People Call Plano Home )" ((Archive )). ''D Magazine''. June 2012. Retrieved on September 27, 2014.〕 By 1991 Chinese professionals were settling in Plano.〔Meyers, Jessica. "(Rare Chinese bilingual program highlights Plano schools’ diversity )" ((Archive )). ''The Dallas Morning News''. November 4, 2011. Retrieved on September 22, 2014.〕 According to the 2000 U.S. Census, 5,762 ethnic Chinese lived in Dallas County. In 2001 Esther Wu interviewed Fay Joe, a man from Shanghai who had emigrated to Dallas in 1939 in the wake of the Second Sino-Japanese War.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of Chinese Americans in Dallas–Fort Worth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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