Talk:Chinatown, Melbourne

Dragon

for citation of the dragon;

http://www.goldendragonmuseum.org/dragons.html

LOONG (Dragon)

Loong is the oldest Imperial (five-clawed) dragon in the world! He made his first appearance in Bendigo in 1892 and continued to walk the streets of Bendigo every year until his retirement in 1970.

and its successor;

SUN LOONG (New Dragon)

Sun Loong was brought to Bendigo from Hong Kong to replace Loong in 1970. He was created by Lo On Kee, a traditional dragon builder.

Sun Loong is the longest Imperial dragon in th world, at more than 100 metres in length. He requires 52 people plus 52 reliefs to carry him. Sun Loong is covered in 4,500 scales, 90,000 mirrors, 30,000 beads and his head weighs 29kg.

Before he appeared in 1970, he was blessed and brought to life by 101 year old Mr James Lew, who dotted the new dragon's eyes wth chicken blood. Sun Loong was first awoken to accompany Loong's last Bendigo Easter procession in 1970.

--Yakumo 20:20, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

thanks Yakumo. --Biatch 23:40, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Suburban Chinatowns?

I don't know about the assertion that Glen Waverley is a "Chinatown". I lived there for several years recently, and while there are many Chinese restaurants, that's about as far as it goes. There's a Westpac that boasts Chinese-speaking staff and the odd business with Chinese lettering, but it's nothing like the extent of Box Hill or the city. Is there a definition for an actual Chinatown vs a concentration of Chinese speaking businesses? Stevage 06:10, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Beware! Anti-San Francisco Chinatown Propaganda by Revisionist!!!

Beware! Some anti-San Francisco revisionist schmuck is attempting to downplay the historical importance of San Francisco's Chinatown by claiming Melbourne's Chinatown is the longest, continuous running Chinese enclave in the western hemisphere because SF Chinatown was destroyed by the earthquake and fire of 1906. FACT: The neighborhood was never completely abandoned and re-populated during its reconstruction as he claims. Numerous businesses and housing based in brick buildings survived with moderate damage and continued functioning, if only in a limited capacity. Many Chinese stayed behind to stake the neighborhood's claim by sleeping out in the open or in tents. Looming large were threats by white real-estate speculators and politicians who wanted to expand the Financial District into the area and move the Chinese community to the southern outskirts of town. Oakland's Chinatown was also too small, so evacuation wasn't an option for many. What's really pathetic is how this person pulls bogus facts out of thin air, not realizing the ways of his errors. Apparently, this individual was spouting his delusional views with a 21st century frame of mind, oblivious to the extreme racism and hardships people of color had to endure back in those days. Had the Chinese population actually been reduced substantially, it would've spelled the end of Chinatown at the historic location we all now know as the largest, oldest, and longest continuous running Chinese community outside of Asia....a land-grabbing bonanza for white outsiders, which luckily didn't happen thanks to the valiant stand taken by the Chinese Community. Furthermore, the lame sources given by this guy are nothing more than tourist websites which mention nothing about Melbourne being the longest continuous Chinatown, nor anything about the '06 earthquake. Simply put, this is nothing more than propagandic sabre-rattling that's becoming all-too common on Wikipedia these days.

Where exactly are your sources to back this up?

Every source I can find (including San Francisco's own chinatown page, and Melbourne's) do not back up your version of facts.

PBS says it was completely destroyed: http://www.pbs.org/kqed/chinatown/resourceguide/story.html The San Francisco site does not claim to be the longest continually running one http://www.sanfranciscochinatown.com/ The Melbourne one does http://chinatownmelbourne.com.au/

If you're going to get angry at people for stating what every other site found says, you'd better back up your claims rather than just writing things out of thin air. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.6.247.8 (talk) 00:27, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Bendigo

The reference to the Bendigo Chinese community is rather wrong. I'll edit it myself later if someone else doesn't. Also why is the information on Loong and Sun Loong on this talk page? Curious. Sir Langan (talk) 13:41, 1 September 2013 (UTC)