Chinatown in Seattle is in its third location. Read a brief history of the first and second Chinatowns and the development of Seattle's Chinatown-International District.

Food has held a central place in the lives of the Chinese in America that not only encompasses what we are served at restaurants but also the complex and profound ways food has helped early Chinese sojourners, their descendants, and more recent Chinese immigrants survive in the United States.

Learn about the the people responsible for putting together the Chinese Village at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. It was a community funded effort.

Almost 140 years ago, Seattle’s Chinese population was almost completely forcibly expelled. During 1885-1886 there were two forces competing against each other; not on whether to keep or remove the Chinese, but on how to best remove the Chinese from Seattle.