Exploring The Barrio Chino (Chinatown) in Havana
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Havana’s fading Chinatown: one Cuban-Chinese man’s hope for a revitalized culture
Cuba’s Barrio Chino De Havana is one of the oldest and largest Chinatowns in Latin America. Yet this once vibrant neighbourhood has been in decline for decades. Many Cubans of Chinese descent fled the island nation soon after Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution.
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This is an overview of La Havana China Town called El Barrio Chino. There are no more chineses here but only a big chinese style door and a few chinese restaurants in a little street.
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Havana Cuba's Chinatown celebrates Spring Festival
Another kind of party is underway in Cuba. Chinatown in Havana is partying for the Lunar New Year with a range of cultural activities. CCTV America's Michael Voss reports.
Havana’s Chinatown to be restored for Cuban capital’s 500th anniversary celebrations
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Nestled alongside Havana’s old town lies a district once considered the biggest Chinatown in Latin America. Today it is known as the “Chinatown with no Chinese people” and only about 120 people still claim 100 per cent Chinese heritage in all of Cuba. But the Chinatown district is still valued enough by residents that most support its restoration in time for celebrations marking Havana’s 500th anniversary.
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Chinese Roots in Cuba Part 2 of 2
Correspondent Michael Voss uncovers Cuba's China connection.
chinatown in Havana, Cuba
The litle chinatown in havana city
TC Trip 古巴華人街 Cuba Chinatown Story 1
TC Trip 古巴華人街 Cuba Chinatown Story 1
China Town, Havana, Cuba
China Town, Havana, Cuba
History Of Cantonese Chinese In Cuba (Inside A Chinese Clan) PCHC MoM (Fong Leun Tong)
History of Chinese People In Cuba. There were over 150,000 Chinese who immigrated to Cuba in 1800s who worked in the plantations and later in building the railroads.
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HISTORY OF CHINESE PEOPLE IN CUBA
The Chinese who immigrated to Cuba in the 20th century were mostly merchants and businessmen. Today, there are less than 200 ethnic Chinese in Cuba.
Over 90% of the Chinese who had immigrated to Cuba were from were from Sai Yup, the Four Counties of Canton, now Guangdong province in southern China. The Sai Yup, Four Counties, were known as Toisan, Hoiping, Yinping and Sunwui. They all share the common Sai Yup dialect. Toisan and Hoiping are the most similar, with some small differences in pronunciation and phrases. The Four Counties, Siyi, is known in Mandarin as Taishan, Kaiping, Enping and Sunhui.
There are 3 parts in this video. A guest speak, Professor Louie Kin Sheun, talks about his father and grandfather working in Cuba. In 2010, Professor Louie visited Cuba for the first time. Later he began recording the oral histories of the Chinese in Cuba. HIs book, titled So Far Away In Cuba was published in 2015. This guest speaker was arranged by Winnie Cheung, Presidient of PCHC MoM. The event was held at the Ing Clan Building, located just outside of Vancouver's chinatown. The event was organized by Winnie Cheung of PCHC- MoM.
Since this event was held in the Ing Clan Building, I got a chance to check out some documents and papers on the second floor. These artifacts were part of an exhibition at the Chinese Cultural Centre in Vancouver.
Part 3 of the video is at the attic of the I|ng Clan Building. This attic used to a bedroom for over 20 Chinese workers living in the Ing Clan Building. The room is only about 300 square feet. The Chinese workers paid about 1.75 a month during the 1920's.
All in all, it was a great event and the attendees got a chance to view the physical layout of a Chinese clan building and get a glimpse of the inner workings of a Chinese clan that is over 100 years old.
Our Chinese clan is called the Fong Leun Tong. It consists of members with the last name of Sit and Seto.
Discovering roots:Chinese Immigrants in Cuba Part 1 of 2
Correspondent Michael Voss uncovers Cuba's China connection.
2012 The Decline and Revival of Chinatown in Havana 1959-2000s
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Cuba Classic Cars: Chinatown Havana on Zanja Str. (March 2, 2018)
Guide - Show me one Chinese people and I give you 20 million dollars. Our guide told us that there were many Chinese in Havana before the Castros took over. Now there are none.
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Chinese, Cubans share long history
Ethnic Chinese have been a presence in the Caribbean nation since the 19th century. CCTV America's Michael Voss also bring us this report on how cultural ties between Cuba and China go well beyond ideology and commerce.
Havana's Chinatown welcomes the Lunar New Year
(25 Jan 2020) Cuba’s small Chinese community celebrated Lunar New Year on Friday night, ushering in the Year of the Rat with a colourful parade, brightly lit lanterns and a dragon dancing its way through the narrow streets of Chinatown.
The island once hosted one of the largest and oldest Chinese communities in the Americas, with the first arrivals coming in the 1850’s to work in the sugarcane fields.
Now a much reduced community carries on the traditions, but celebrates major holidays with a island twist, blending rum and cigars with traditional Chinese fare and love of music.
The streets were packed for the celebrations in Chinatown, nestled next to the large Parque Central in the city’s historic section.
Tourists, locals and Chinese-Cuban descendants clapped and wriggled to the dragon dance, held colorful lanterns and cheered effigies of Chinese characters.
The celebrations come as millions of mainland Chinese are barred from marking the occasion, locked down because of the spread of a newly identified coronavirus which has sickened hundreds of people worldwide.
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Walking around in Havana, near old Chinatown
Havana's Chinatown dreams of a new lease of life
Residents of Havana's Chinatown, once the biggest in Latin America, dream of recovering their neighbourhood's past glory.
When I was in Cuba (Chinatown)
We visit the famous Chinatown in Cuba. Great resturant we ate at. Food was pretty reasonable in price. But not o much to see and not that many Chinese people there go figure.
Cuba: First ever direct flight from China to Cuba touches down in Havana
The first ever direct flight between China and Cuba landed in Havana on Monday morning. Chinese tourists and returning Cuban travelers were treated, upon arrival, to complimentary drinks and greeted by a band playing traditional Cuban music.
Chinese tourist Yong Xing Sun said the new route is very important for tourists as it saves about 15 hours off their traveling time.
Fellow arrival Cuban Oscar Hernandez Heredia talked up Beijing, saying the people there were very nice to Cubans and interested to know about the country.
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Havana's Chinatown celebrates the lunar new year
1. Zoom out Dragon and dancers
2. Pan of dragon
3. Close up spectators
4. Martial arts demonstration
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Wang Zhiquan, Chinese Ambassador to Cuba:
The first Chinese arrived here over 150 years ago and they fought together with the Cuban people in their wars of independence and later for the triumph of the revolution. Today the descendants of those Chinese, the sons and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Cuban-Chinese are edifying the socialist cause along with the Cuban people.
6. Wide shot of entrance to Chinatown in Havana
7. Drummers
8. Zoom out dancing lions
9. Chinese restaurant
10. Close up people eating
11. Street in Chinatown
12. Chinese couple in costume
13. Pan down head ornament to face
14. Zoom in Chinese lantern
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Abel Fong, Chinese Immigrant:
This is a marvellous night for us the Chinese and it allows us to unite with the Cubans. For us it's not only pride, but also happiness.
16. Pan from Chinese lanterns to balloons
17. Restaurant patrons popping balloons at midnight
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The New Lunar Year arrived in Havana's Chinatown with a dancing dragon, martial arts demonstrations, and hundreds of revellers pouring into the streets.
Many people around the world are surprised to learn that there is a Chinatown in Cuba.
It may not be a big community today - only about 500 Chinese Cubans remain - but Havana's Chinatown was at one point the largest Chinese enclave in Latin America.
The first known group to arrive in Cuba came on the Spanish frigate Oquendo back in 1847 to work in Cuba's already bustling sugar industry.
Between 1860 and 1875 around 5,000 Chinese immigrants arrived from California.
Traditionally small business owners, many set up shop near one another and the area came to be known as El Barrio Chino, Spanish for the Chinese neighbourhood.
Cuba's Chinese population swelled to over 40,000, but with the arrival of Fidel Castro's revolution in 1959 most chose to leave.
Today's Barrio Chino is a collection of small restaurants along a one block street.
Tourists and Cubans alike can sample Chinese cuisine.
There are some establishments that trade strictly in dollars, while others take the local pesos.
Every New Year's Eve, the block is closed off to the general public and only guests with invitations are allowed to sit and eat.
At midnight, martial arts students dressed as Chinese lions dance among the tables while diners pop balloons.
The Lunar Year 2004 is the Year of the Monkey.
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