, 1898. This photograph illustrates the large population of Chinese men who used San Francisco as a springboard to the California gold fields. The term "Chinatown" is an Americanism that dates to this period.]]A Chinatown is a section of an urban area associated with a large number of Chinese within a city outside the majority-Chinese countries of Greater China. Chinatowns occur all over the world including East Asia, Southeast Asia, North America, Australia and Europe. In the past, overcrowded Chinatowns in urban areas were generally shunned by the non-Chinese public as ethnic ghettos, and seen as places of vice and cultural insularity where "unassimilable foreigners" congregated. Nowadays, many old and new Chinatowns are considered significant centers of commercialism and tourism. Some of them also serve, to various degrees, as centers of multiculturalism. Many Chinatowns are focused on commercial tourism whereas others are actual living and w

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