Note: see poem in the lower left corner of the map. “To outsiders, San Francisco’s Chinatown, with its 20,000 residents, is a tourist attraction, a special place to shop or stroll along the streets. For the Chinese, however, it is “Tangrenbu,” the port of the city of Tang. Today, Chinatown represents the combination of neighborhood and capital of West Coast Chinese culture...Until April 17, 1906, Tangrenbu was a ghetto where outsiders forced the Chinese to live. The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire that shook, then burned, the city on April 18, 1906, swallowed Tangrenbu whole.” Lost San Francisco, Dennis Evanosky and Eric J. Kos “San Franciscan’s were worried about a Chinese invasion. This map is part of a years-long campaign to stem Chinese immigration and the Chinese influence in San Francisco and to keep the Chinese in their ghetto, Chinatown.” Tom Paper californiahistoricalsociety.org
