Guide to Usera (the Chinatown from Madrid) to move like a real Chinese

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05/2022

Usera, the Chinatown of Madrid, hides in its modern streets places of China most avant-garde and unknown to the western world. Chinese New Year is the perfect excuse to live it like a real Chinese. Will you be able to?

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The Chinese community hasn't been with us that long. We consulted with David Bern, anthropologist, director of the Chinese New Year of Madrid City Council and Professor of Anthropology at the Complutense University of Madrid once we arrived in Usera.

"at the end of the 1970s there were barely a thousand Chinese in Spain. It is a very minority migration that begins to evolve in the late 1990s in the ungentrified Lavapiés and with some conflict. The Chinese population suffered a lot. They landed in Usera almost by chance, perhaps because of their easy access through the M-30, "David explains to Traveler.es.

Guía de Usera (el Chinatown madrileño) para moverse como un auténtico chino

We started finding whole streets where all business is Chinese. At first they were unattractive services, even for themselves, but they covered needs. Starting in 2014, purchasing power is higher and the Chinese are beginning to demand things of a higher level.

Guide to Usera (the Chinatown from Madrid) to move like a real Chinese
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