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Dear
Chinese Visitor ! This
site is designed mostly for American visitors but along the way,
I have collected various information which could be useful for
Chinese visitors. Thank you for your feed-back and suggestions
: I hope some of them can help and this page is under construction.
Welcome to Chinese visitors and expats to France !
Cher visiteur chinois ! Ce site est conçu essentiellement
pour des visiteurs américains mais en le rédigeant,
il m'arrive de trouver des éléments qui peuvent
être utiles à des chinois. Merci de vos réactions
et suggestions : j'espère que certaines pourront rendre
service et cette page est encore en construction. Bienvenue aux
visiteurs et expatriés chinois en France !
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| Two books in Chinese
on France and the French |
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A brief history of the
Chinese community in Paris |
The webmaster's wife, Harriet Welty
Rochefort, has published two books on France and the French.
Both have been translated and published in Chinese :
- The story of adjusting to
life in France, French
Toast, was published in Chinese by Walnut Tree Publishing
Co in 2000 (see : picture right)
- A book on the French and
their eating habits, French Fried was
translated and published in Chinese in 2002 (see : picture
left)
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- First wave 1917 : 140,000 Chinese worker to compensate
the lack of an industrial workforce during WW1 (mostly from Zheijiang
and Wenzhou) : they settled near Arts-et-Métiers
- Second wave 1950s : Chines immigrants from former French
Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia) : they settled in the 13rth
Arrondissement ("Chinatown") ; many of them operate
restaurants
- Third wave, recently : Chinese immigrants (Dong Bei) from
rural China (from Beijing and Wenzhou) : they settle in Belleville
(11th, 19th and 20th arrondissement) ; many of them work in the
clothing industry
- Chinese Christian churches include : Sainte Elisabeth (near République,
Catholic), Notre Dame de Chine (13th, Catholic), Rue d'Annam
(20th, Protestant)
- Near Paris, in the little city
of Montargis, a Franco-Chinese association has designed
a touristic circuit to show where many future Chinese political
leaders lived and worked between 1912 and 1927. Among them :
Zhou Enlai, Chen Yi, Li Fuchun, Li Weihan, Ba Jin, Deng Xiaoping...
- More to come
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| Suggestions to tourists... |
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Visit some other selected
pages of this site |
- The
Chinese New Year parades are very popular and there are
several : the most spectacular are the one betwee the Hotel de
Ville and the Place de la République, and the one on Avenue
de Choisy in the 13th.
- The best collection of Chinese
art is at the Musée Guimet (6 Place d'Iena, 75016)
and the Musée Cernuschi (7 Avenue Velasquez, 75017), smaller,
offers a beautiful collection of ancient China artefacts in a
delightful little palace. There is also the small Musée
d'Ennery (59 Avenue Foch, 75016)
- Best known Chinese artists
in Paris include
- François Chen (writer)
(living in Paris)
- Gao Xingjian (writer, Nobel
Prize) (living in Paris)
- Zao Wou-Ki (painter) (living
in Paris)
- Ieoh Ming Pei (architect) who
designed the Pyramid of the Louvre Museum
- Zhang Yimou (movie director)
- The Chinese community in France :
- Centre Culturel Chinois, 77 rue Dunois 75013 01 45 82 96 78
- A site (in English) for the
Chinese
community in France
- More to come...
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Some pages of this site
can be useful for Chinese visitors and expats, as they can help
them to better understand France and the French.
Do you know
that France has more than 360 different sorts of cheeses ?
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| To related pages : life in France,
American
Paris, Japanese Paris,
etc.... |
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To table
of contents
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For more on intercultural
differences, order Harriet Welty Rochefort's books :
- "French Toast, An American in Paris
Celebrates The Maddening Mysteries of the French", St.Martin's Press,
New York, 1999
- (in French)
: "French Toast - Heureuse comme une Américaine
en France", Ramsay, Paris, 2005
- "French Fried, The Culinary Capers
of An American in Paris", St.Martin's Press, New York, 2001
More on Harriet's books (excerpts, upcoming
events, testimonials, etc..)
Together
or separately, Harriet and Philippe speak
about Intercultural Differences
: click here
for information.
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