For years Clevelands Chinese residents struggled to find a secure place in the city Immigrants came with dreams of building a better life but without English proficiency prospects dimmed and emigres often earned poor pay for long hours of strenuous work InCleveland police responded to an especially brutal outbreak of the tong war violence ravaging the community by arresting every Chinese person in the city creating an international scandal In spite of the antiAsian sentiment of the time the community persevered and paved the way for its current entrepreneurial success Today Clevelanders and tourists travel to the growing AsiaTown neighborhood to enjoy authentic Asian dinners shop at Asianowned stores and enjoy Asianthemed karaoke nights in newly built malls and centuryold former residential homes Alan F Dutka vividly portrays one of the oldest and most culturally diverse neighborhoods in the city