CortezBlue - 4-9-2015 at 07:14 AM
Interesting Article
http://sandiegofreepress.org/2015/04/the-chinese-in-mexicali...
chuckie - 4-9-2015 at 07:27 AM
Very good article..I have been going to Mexicali and eating Chinese food since 1956...Never had a bad meal...We used to hang out in a bar, right on
the border, that we called "The Chinamans". It was run by a Chinese gentleman who was about 200 years old (at least). When things got too rowdy he
would take an old single action colt and shoot into the ceiling, while screaming in Chinese....generally quieted things down.
David K - 4-9-2015 at 08:01 AM
There is more, and why the mountain near the Hwy. 5 and 3 junction is called 'El Chinero'... Greg Niemann has a chapter about it in his book, 'Baja
Legends'.
DENNIS - 4-9-2015 at 08:28 AM
Here's more:
http://chinese-mexico.blogspot.mx/2007/03/mexicalis-chinatow...
http://chinese-mexico.blogspot.mx/2007_02_01_archive.html
David K - 4-9-2015 at 08:31 AM
Thanks for the "more", Dennis!
Thank you CortezBlue for the post!
güéribo - 4-9-2015 at 09:11 AM
Cool article! Thanks for passing it along.
MICK - 4-10-2015 at 07:48 AM
Always good reading
BajaBlanca - 4-10-2015 at 08:23 AM
really interesting history there! I was surprised to see that the author recommended sharkfin soup ????
BajaBlanca - 4-10-2015 at 08:38 AM
This article was written in 1900 and it states that the Chinese were in the State of Sonora 1500 years ago .......from the same blog:
http://chinese-mexico.blogspot.mx/2007/02/chinese-traces-in-...
bufeo - 4-10-2015 at 10:46 AM
This may bring Gavin Menzies—or at least his book—back into the discussion.
Allen R.
DianaT - 4-10-2015 at 12:31 PM
Living and working in Calexico was interesting as a minority of our students were listed as ethinic Chinese, but most of them were far more Mexican.
Only a few spoke one of the Chinese languages, but they all spoke Spanish. One of our teachers was also Chinese-Mexican.
Most of the families had been in the Mexicali area for a long time, but there were some who were quite new arrivals to Mexico and the US.
One of my students who was born in China complained that too many relatives kept coming from China so the profits from their restaurant in Mexicali
was being split too many ways!
And it was fun to joke with a couple of my students who were chosen to attend a Hispanic student leadership convention in Sacramento. Many were quite
surprised to see Victor Ma and Michele Chang.
The interaction between the towns at the border were quite fluid; and like almost all of our students, the Chinese-Mexicans had one foot on either
side of the border.
Good articles --- thanks!
güéribo - 4-10-2015 at 12:39 PM
Love the personal addition to the thread. Thanks DianaT.
tehag - 4-10-2015 at 04:42 PM
Old Harper's article by William T. Vollmann about the fire under Mexicali that drove the Chinese above ground. He describes an entire town down there.
David K - 4-10-2015 at 05:20 PM
A friend back in the 1980's was a teacher in San Marcos, named Ralph Campos... he was a Chinese-Mexican from Mexicali... I never heard him speak
Chinese, however.