Little Taipei

Downtown Monterey Park, California

Little Taipei (Chinese: 小台北) was an informal name given to the city of Monterey Park, California in the late 1970s when it had a large immigrant population from Taiwan. (Taipei is the capital city of Taiwan，Republic of China.) Today, the area includes many Mainland Chinese and Chinese-Vietnamese immigrants.

There are Asian (mainly Chinese) businesses and residences throughout the city of Monterey Park. There are also a great deal of Chinese residents and businesses in neighboring cities in the San Gabriel Valley such as Alhambra, San Gabriel, Temple City, Rosemead, Arcadia, and El Monte as well as further eastward in Hacienda Heights and Rowland Heights. The ethnic Chinese diaspora population in these cities are fairly diverse in terms of socioeconomics, linguistics, and culture, ranging from moneyed Mandarin-speaking immigrants from Taiwan to then-impoverished Chinese refugees from Vietnam (although many own and operate small businesses today) to a mixture of working-class and nouveau-riche émigrés from Mainland China. Other major Chinese émigrés in San Gabriel Valley include those from Mainland China (from various provinces), Hong Kong, Cambodia, Korea, and Indonesia. Despite the diversity of backgrounds of these migrants, business is conducted in either Mandarin or Cantonese. A number of supermarket chains catering to these immigrants include 99 Ranch Market, and Hong Kong Supermarket, and Shun Fat Supermarket.

Starting with "Little Taipei", the San Gabriel Valley has emerged as Southern California's publishing center for Chinese language newspapers including the Los Angeles editions of World Journal, Taiwan Daily, Sing Tao, International Daily News, The Epoch Times, China Daily, The China Press, and Xin Min Evening News.