Where is calle dragones in the barrio chino

Get directions now. How to get to Barrio Chino by Bus? How to get to Barrio Chino by Metro? Station Name Distance Av. The closest stations to Barrio Chino are: Av. Juan Pablo Duarte is meters away, 2 min walk.

Duarte is meters away, 3 min walk. Calle Duarte, is meters away, 3 min walk. More details Which Bus lines stop near Barrio Chino? More details Which Metro lines stop near Barrio Chino? More details. Last updated on October 22, Change language. In the afternoon and early evening during the not so busy hours, most of the time he sits alone, but when a Chinese person passes by, he will surely strike up a conversation. After touring Latin America 23 years ago, Luo found out that he liked Cuba best and decided to stay.

The houses where they once lived became government property and were handed over to the poor. With the passage of time descendants of the Chinese immigrants have now spread out all over the city and over time mixed more with the local people. Walking out of the alley into Calle Nicolas, you will immediately see a grand, four-floor white building with bright red columns. Sitting in front of the institute, three young people were waiting for their Chinese teacher to arrive.

I later learned from Lucila, 55, the janitor of the institute, that currently there are about students registered at the school and anyone with Cuban citizenship can register for free. The Chinese government sends teachers that circulate every two years and pays them. Apart from the 14 Chinese teachers, there are also six to seven Cuban teachers who are mostly graduates from the institute.

Graduating with a Chinese degree also allows many of them to work in Chinese companies, as exemplified by Luis and Leo, two young people who speak Chinese relatively well who I separately ran into while walking in Havana.

Leo proudly tells me that he works in the only company that produces bicycles in Cuba. On the streets of Havana I often hear people calling me chinita but it is also not rare to be greeted by ni hao.

On Calle Zanja there is a small, triangular-shaped Confucius park with plants and patches of grass, and children from the neighborhood find it an ideal playground.

Around it, nothing visibly suggests a neighborhood for overseas Chinese—no Chinese grocery stores, or symphony of dialect in the streets. To Havana locals and the global Chinese diaspora, this neighborhood, now home primarily to Afro-Cuban residents, is a contradiction: a Chinatown without any Chinese.

On a Tuesday afternoon, I walk into the Havana branch of the Min Chi Tang Association, established in as a chapter of the Hongmen secret society that originated in southern China in the 18th century. The Min Chi Tang is also where a group of elderly women gather once a week to learn Mandarin for the first time in their lives.

Today, they peer over their glasses to copy down the characters that their instructors write on the whiteboard, then tell me about the Chinatown of their childhoods. The community, also, has changed: Cuba is home to fewer than chinos naturales , or ethnic Chinese born in China, the youngest of whom is Officially, the Chinese have been present in Cuba for years: in June, the community had celebrated the anniversary of the arrival of Chinese migrant workers in These early immigrants were joined by overseas Chinese fleeing anti-immigrant legislation in the United States in the late 19th century, as well as 20th-century migrants from China during war with Japan and the Chinese civil war.

At the time of the Cuban Revolution, the Chinese population was estimated at 50,, but as Chinese-owned businesses and restaurants became nationalized following the revolution, many of their owners migrated to the US, Canada, or other Latin American nations.