Tag: Monterey Park, Calif, Shooting (Jan, 2023)

Your Tuesday Briefing: California Mourns, as Death Toll Rises

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The death toll rises in a mass shooting Another victim of the recent mass shooting in a thriving Chinese American suburb of Los Angeles died at a hospital yesterday, bringing the death toll to 11. Investigators continued to seek the gunman’s motive in the attack, which took place during a Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park. Here are updates. The victims of the massacre were in their 50s, 60s and 70s. Officials have identified two victims, My Nhan and Lilan Li, and details about the others are still emerging.…

Monterey Park Transformed the Chinese American Experience

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There are few places in the United States that hold greater significance to the Chinese-American community than Monterey Park, Calif. Known as the first suburban Chinatown, the city owes its changes to the late Chinese American real estate developer Fred Hsieh, who promoted the community about seven miles east of downtown Los Angeles as the “Chinese Beverly Hills.” His vision would ignite a demographic transformation starting in the 1970s as Monterey Park and the neighboring city of Alhambra welcomed more and more middle-class ethnic Chinese residents from both home and…