From the 2000s many Chinese have settled and started up small businesses, while at least as many have come as workforce for large ( construction or other ) enterprises.

Restaurants ( along with Chinese laundries ) provided an ethnic niche for small businesses at a time when the Chinese people were excluded from most jobs in the wage economy by ethnic discrimination or lack of language fluency.

Fear of what the changes might mean for them ( as much of the country's businesses were Chinese owned ), a Malay backlash resulted, leading rapidly to riots and inter-communal violence in which about 6, 000 Chinese homes and businesses were burned and at least 184 people were killed.

This latter figure was deceptive because many businesses that appeared to be Malay-owned were still indirectly controlled by Chinese, but there is no doubt that the Malay share of the economy considerably increased.

Native resentment against the numerous small businesses being run by Chinese led to the rioting.

In the decades following the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court overturned laws barring blacks from juries ( Strauder v. West Virginia, 1880 ) or discriminating against Chinese Americans in the regulation of laundry businesses ( Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 1886 ), as violations of the Equal Protection Clause.

Chinatown, Toronto is an ethnic enclave in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with a high concentration of ethnic Chinese residents and businesses extending along Dundas Street West and Spadina Avenue.

Malaysia provides affirmative action to the majority because in general, the Malays have lower income than the Chinese who have traditionally been involved in businesses and industries.

Chinese businesses prefer to look upon relationship management to avoid conflicts-stemmed from a culture that heavily relies on Guanxi.

Unlike the Chinese, some Japanese were even able to climb the rungs of society by setting up businesses or becoming truck farmers.

He appeared on the scene in 1877 and led sandlot vigilantes that roamed the city beating Chinese and wrecking their businesses.

Many Chinese businesses have also been established in the city.

Local businesses include a number of furniture shops including Chaplins, which holds the largest selection of contemporary designer furniture in Europe, plus numerous restaurants including Italian ( for example, there is a branch of ASK on the Uxbridge Road ), Greek, Chinese, American and Indian.

Despite the large Fuzhou population, most of the Chinese businesses in Chinatown are still Cantonese owned and because of still the large Cantonese population on the Lower East Side, especially with the Cantonese Community still being the main Chinese commercial district for all of Chinatown and with the Cantonese people living in more affluent residencies that are also important customers to Chinatown's businesses, Cantonese is still a strong Lingua Franca in Chinatown even though Mandarin is beginning to sweep Cantonese aside as a Lingua Franca allowing Cantonese to still dominate the cultural standards and economic resources of Manhattan's Chinatown.

These businesses are primarily owned by ethnic Chinese and Taiwanese immigrants.

The World Wide Center has a number of small ethnic businesses which include House of Lee Chinese Restaurant, NAM STE Indian Grocery, Bangkok Kitchen Thai Restaurant, and China Merchandise.

There are many other small businesses, ranging from Chinese restaurants, pizza parlors, hobby and comic book stores, delis, hairdressers and barbers, and clothing stores.

It is the home of famous writer Lin Yutang, the summer residence of Chiang Kai-shek, residences of foreign diplomats, the Chinese Culture University, the meeting place of the now defunct National Assembly of the Republic of China, and the Kuomintang Party Archives.

On auspicious occasions, including Chinese New Year and the opening of shops and residences, festivities often include dancing with dragon puppets.

Government officials are worried that, as the number of Chinese homes with telephone lines grows from the present level of less than 4 %, the State will become totally unable to monitor Internet access at residences.

Khok Su-Met Choon had only four residences at that time, but due to the investments of Khun Niphatchinnkhon ( 謝枢泗, Jia Gi Si, 1886 – 1972, Hakka Chinese ), the railway contractor for the railway connection from Nakhon Si Thammarat to Pattani, it quickly grew into a small town.

One an elaborate complex of Chinese pagodas and the other a modern mansion, these were used as residences for Mobutu and guests.

Similar to Europe, Chinese cities were founded as forts or leader's residences and were the centers of trade and crafts.

The architecture of the palaces, residences and gardens in the Heian period followed Chinese practice.

Chinese architecture from early times used concepts from Chinese cosmology such as feng shui ( geomancy ) and Taoism to organize construction and layout from common residences to imperial and religious structures.

About halfway down Orchard Road are Cairnhill and Emerald Hill, where the rich Chinese built their residences, now prime properties sought after by affluent professionals and expatriates.

Throughout Chinese history, the siheyuan composition was the basic pattern used for residences, palaces, temples, monasteries, family businesses and government offices.

There are Asian ( mainly Chinese ) businesses and residences throughout the city of Monterey Park.

Unlike the official Chinatown in downtown Los Angeles, these " pocket " communities are not called " Chinatown " by the Chinese community there, but generally by the name of the city or street in which the businesses and residences are established, although Monterey Park has been called the " First Suburban Chinatown ".

The Han Chinese were forced to live in the Outer city or outside the city, as the Inner city residences became exclusively homes for the Eight Banners — Manchus related to the emperor.

A few weeks ago, I read in the Bulletin that there were to be given Chinese classes in Cranston.

I never found it among any of the Chinese with whom I spoke, though granted they were, almost all, members of the official family who, presumably, harbor official thoughts.

The Peiping Chinese were the only major silver seller in the world markets who stopped selling the metal on Monday morning, November 27, anticipating by two days the announcement of the U.S. Treasury that the pegged offering price will be removed.

Chinese and Indian merchants across the street were slamming their steel shutters.

My father went as a missionary to China in a generation that responded to Student Volunteer Movement speakers who held watches in their hands and announced to the students in their audiences how many Chinese souls were going to hell each second because these students were not over there saving them.

But in the Chinese mind, there was little difference between the two -- the bonzes were no more metaphysical than a magician has to be.

Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.

The Physiocrats were partially influenced by Chinese agrarianism ; leading physiocrats like François Quesnay were avid Confucianists that advocated China's agrarian policies.

In New York's Chinatown, the restaurants were known for having a " phantom " menu with food preferred by ethnic Chinese, but believed to be disliked by non-Chinese Americans.

Chinese astronomers were able to view what is modern Antlia from their latitudes, and incorporated its stars into two different constellations.

The system of Chinese astrology was elaborated during the Zhou dynasty ( 1046 – 256 BC ) and flourished during the Han Dynasty ( 2nd century BC to 2nd century AD ), during which all the familiar elements of traditional Chinese culture – the Yin-Yang philosophy, theory of the 5 elements, Heaven and Earth, Confucian morality – were brought together to formalise the philosophical principles of Chinese medicine and divination, astrology and alchemy.

In Chinese manuscripts, gold, camphor, tortoise shells, hornbill ivory, rhinoceros horn, crane crest, beeswax, lakawood ( a scented heartwood and root wood of a thick liana, Dalbergia parviflora ), dragon's blood, rattan, edible bird's nests and various spices were among the most valuable items from Borneo.

A more general binomial theorem and the so-called " Pascal's triangle " were known in the 10th-century A. D. to Indian mathematician Halayudha and Persian mathematician Al-Karaji, in the 11th century to Persian poet and mathematician Omar Khayyam, and in the 13th century to Chinese mathematician Yang Hui, who all derived similar results .< ref > Al-Karaji also provided a mathematical proof of both the binomial theorem and Pascal's triangle, using mathematical induction.

" However, Costas ' comments were made subsequent to the suspension of Chinese coach Zhou Ming after seven of his swimmers were caught using steroids in 1994.

Including these failed drug tests, 27 Chinese swimmers were caught using performance enhancing drugs from 1990 through 1997 ; more than the rest of the world combined.

The population of the Banda Islands prior to Dutch conquest is generally estimated to have been around 13, 000-15, 000 people, some of whom were Malay and Javanese traders, as well as Chinese and Arabs.

In addition, the Chinese Communists were able to fill the political vacuum left in Manchuria after Soviet forces withdrew from the area and thus gained China's prime industrial base.

The Chinese Communists were able to fight their way from the north and northeast, and virtually all of mainland China was taken by the end of 1949.