{"id":2353,"date":"2021-10-30T17:11:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T06:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/?page_id=2353"},"modified":"2021-12-28T10:13:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T23:13:13","slug":"chinatown-8-sydney","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/chinatown-8-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinatown 8 (Sydney)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Every city seems to have – or seems to feel need for – a \u201cChinatown\u201d (a rather catch all word). In the case of Sydney this mostly refers to the Dixon St, Haymarket area which for the greater part of 20th century was a major focus for Chinese Australians. Even so, Upper George Street and The Rocks nearer Sydney Harbour was for long the \u201cChinese Street\u201d and later the Surry Hills area near the now gone Wexford Street was home for many years to a high concentration of Chinese Australians. Nowadays suburbs such as Chatswood and Hurstville have significant proportions of people of either Chinese heritage or that are China-born. [See also Chinatown 8 (Melbourne)]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While for some period considered a ghetto, the Haymarket Chinatown nevertheless boasts a range of activities and a complex history which this Chinatown 8 serves to hint at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n