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As of 2002 Ethnic Chinese and Chinese American people are second largest Asian-origin ethnic group in the Wayne-Macomb-Oakland tri-county area in Metro Detroit. As of that year there were 16,829 ethnic Chinese, concentrated mainly in Troy, Rochester Hills, and Canton Township.〔Metzger, Kurt and Jason Booza. "(Asians in the United States, Michigan and Metropolitan Detroit )." Center for Urban Studies, Wayne State University. January 2002 Working Paper Series, No. 7. p. 12. Retrieved on November 6, 2013.〕 As of 2012 Madison Heights also hosts a significant Chinese community.〔"(Best Chinese Arts & Culture Events In Detroit For The Lunar New Year )." ((Archive )) CBS Detroit. January 23, 2012. Retrieved on December 3, 2013.〕 Within the city of Detroit, the area north of Downtown Detroit; including the region around the Henry Ford Hospital, the Detroit Medical Center, and Wayne State University; has transient Asian national origin residents who are university students or hospital workers; most of these Asians are Chinese and Indians. Few of them have permanent residency after schooling ends.〔Metzger, Kurt and Jason Booza. "(Asians in the United States, Michigan and Metropolitan Detroit )." Center for Urban Studies, Wayne State University. January 2002 Working Paper Series, No. 7. p. 8. Retrieved on November 6, 2013.〕 As of 2011 the largest still-operating Chinatown in proximity to Metro Detroit is located in the Chinatown of Windsor, Ontario.〔 ==History== Ah Chee arrived to Detroit in 1872 and established a laundry business. Ah Chee was the first Chinese person in Detroit.〔Zia, p. (62 ).〕 The first Chinese businesses were established in Metro Detroit in 1879, making the Chinese the Asian immigrant group with the longest presence.〔 Many Chinese coming to Detroit after Ah Chee established laundry businesses.〔 At one time Detroit had its own Chinatown.〔 In 1905 the first Chinese restaurant opened in Detroit.〔 In the early 20th century Henry Ford had recruited some ethnic Chinese living in Hawaii to work at his automobile plants.〔Steele, Micki. "(Asian-Americans settle in Metro Detroit enclaves )." ''The Detroit News''. April 19, 2011. Retrieved on December 3, 2013. "And Henry Ford recruited Chinese workers from Hawaii to work in his auto plants in the early 20th century, while others came later in the 1930s, and some started laundries."〕 In the 1920s Detroit had 300 Chinese laundry businesses and 12 Chinese restaurants. Helen Zia, author of ''Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People'', wrote that during the 1920s the Chinese business community in Detroit had its peak.〔 Some Chinese people moved to Detroit in the 1930s.〔 The Chinese business and the population of Detroit's Chinatown decreased after the 1920s.〔 Much of the Chinatown was demolished in the 1950s so the John C. Lodge Freeway could be built.〔Delicato and Demery, p. (28 ).〕 In response Chinatown moved to an area in the southern Cass Corridor focused on the intersection of Cass Avenue and Peterboro Street.〔Delicato and Kahlil, p. (62 ).〕 In 1951 about 2,000 Chinese lived in the Detroit city limits.〔Mayer, p. (11 ). "There are approximately 2,000 people of Chinese extraction living in the city of Detroit."〕 The highly educated ethnic Chinese who moved to Detroit after the Immigration Act of 1965 moved to suburbs, bypassing Detroit and the Detroit Chinatown. The previous laundry and restaurant owners who had children who, instead of staying in the Chinatown, moved to Metro Detroit suburbs and to other cities and moved away to attend universities.〔 The 1980 U.S. Census counted 1,213 ethnic Chinese in the City of Detroit. Zia wrote that the figure was "surely an undercount" but that the Chinese population in the City of Detroit "was unquestionably small."〔 The family-owned businesses in the Detroit Chinatown had declined by the 1980s. Zia wrote that by that decade, the "shrinking base" in the Detroit Chinatown "reflected the diminished role of the merchants."〔 In 1982, in Metro Detroit autoworkers killed Vincent Chin, a Chinese American mistaken as a Japanese American. An October 27, 2009 article by the ''Detroit Free Press'' stated that "It took the slaying of() Vincent Chin by a disgruntled autoworker in 1982 to awaken Detroit of the ugliness and danger of anti-Asian racism."〔Darden and Thomas, (page unstated ) (starts with "Dingell was not alone in the sentiment()")〕 Cynthia Lee, a Chinese American from Hawaii who worked as a reporter for ''The Detroit News'', interviewed Metro Detroit Chinese Americans who criticized the verdict given to the two men, who pleaded guilty and received probation and fines. The Chinese Americans interviewed by Lee stated that the sentences were too light.〔Zia, p. (60 ).〕 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 the Chinese Americans in Metro Detroit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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