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Greater St. Louis has a Chinese community. The first Chinese immigrant to St. Louis was Alla Lee, a 20-year-old from Ningbo who arrived in 1857. He socialized with the Irish American community and married and Irish woman. He sold coffee and tea in a shop on North Tenth Street. Several hundred Chinese wishing to work in factories and mines in and around St. Louis moved there from New York and San Francisco around 1867 The community they settled, Hop Alley, became Chinatown, St. Louis. This community disappeared in 1966 after it was demolished to make room for a parking lot for Busch Stadium.〔Ling, Huping, ''Chinese St. Louis'', p. (1 ) ((Archive )).〕 In a several decade period following 1966 increasing numbers of Chinese Americans moved to St. Louis County, Missouri.〔Ling, Huping, ''Chinese St. Louis'', p. (1-2 ) ((Archive )).〕 From the 1960s to the 1980s many Chinese-language schools and Chinese churches and community organizations developed in the area.〔Ling, Huping, "Cultural Community: A New Model for Asian American Community," p. (146 ).〕 ==Demographics== The 2000 U.S. Census stated that there were 9,120 people of Chinese descent in Greater St. Louis. Huping Ling, author of ''Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community'', stated that unofficial estimates as of 2004 ranged from 15,000 to 20,000.〔Ling, Huping, ''Chinese St. Louis'', p. (2 ) ((Archive )).〕 She stated that 1% of the population of suburban St. Louis was ethnic Chinese and that the "great majority" of the ethnic Chinese in the area lived in the suburbs, particularly those west and south of St. Louis.〔 The ethnic Chinese population was less than 0.1% of the city's population in the late 19th century and the early 20th century.〔 There were 300 Chinese in St. Louis by the end of the 19th Century.〔Ling, Huping. "Growing Up in "Hop Alley": Chinese American Youth in St. Louis During the Early Twentieth Century," p. (65 ).〕 In 1960, 102 Chinese lived in the St. Louis suburbs, making up 30% of the Greater St. Louis Chinese. In 1970, 461 lived in the suburbs, making up 80% of the area population. In 1980 the number increased to 3,873, making up 78% of the area population. In 1990 the number increased to 3,873, making up 83% of the area total.〔 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 St. Louis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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