Here's why the Monterey Park community holds a special place in L.A.'s Asian community and far beyond. Full story:
“You know, [Monterey Park] is special place for a lot of people, a lot of Asian Americans, not only in the San Gabriel Valley, but across Los Angeles where people will, you know, travel through L.A. traffic just to come to the SGV, oftentimes to Monterey Park."
Yong Chen, a history professor at UC Irvine told us Monterey Park grew before and after World War II due to an influx of Japanese farmers who returned from concentration camps where West Coast Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants were incarcerated.“It was the first suburban Chinatown,” Chen said.
Chen said that's because: “Until the end of 1970s, no immigrants came from Mainland China. Most Chinese immigrants that arrived in the U.S. came from Taiwan." "Many of those immigrants, either themselves or their parents, had gone to Taiwan in 1949 after the Nationalist Party was defeated by the communists," Chen said,"so the food culture they brought to the U.S. was not simply Taiwanese but Szechuan and Hunan food, and other regional Chinese cuisines.”, an Orange County-based organization that promotes civic engagement among Asian American Pacific Islander and Latino communities.
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