Paris Chinatown
and Chinese communities in
France
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There are two Chinatowns in Paris. The first one is located in the 13th arrondissement, the more recent one, is in Belleville.
The 13th arrondissement, on the left bank, really took off in the late 1970's and early 1980's with the arrival of the "boat people", mainly Chinese living in Vietnam, as the result of war between China and Vietnam. Now, there are nearly 200 restaurants in this southwestern part of Paris. The neighborhood's center is the Place d'Italie, and its borders are the Avenue d'Ivry, Avenue de Choisy and Boulevard Masséna.
In the mid 1980's, another Chinatown sprouted in another part of Paris: Belleville, in the northwestern section of the city. Belleville, which was the home of Edith Piaf and Maurice Chevalier, has been for the longest time the neighborhood where new immigrants would settle. One can find many Chinese immigrants from mainland China in this neighborhood.
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