Since the Chinese are some of the most interesting immigrant groups to this country of ours, I am usually fond of any information I find about them. In fact, I am fond of any information I find of any immigrant group that came here legally, now if illegal, then we are at odds.
Anyhow, I found this interesting piece about the Chinese community here (more specifically in Santo Domingo). This is part of a bigger article on the Chinatowns in Latin America...
Dominican Republic
While Havana's Barrio Chino is struggling for self-preservation, a new bustling Chinatown in the Dominican Republic thrives, in that country's capital city Santo Domingo, on Avenida Duarte. While serving the local Chinese community with at least 40 immigrant-run businesses, it is also promoted as a tourist attraction. The development of Chinatown is now gaining momentum, and a new gateway arch is in development. The first Chinese, including other Spanish-speaking Chinese, came from other Caribbean islands. Other first-generation Chinese immigrants came from Hong Kong and Taiwan in 1970s. Chinese became the second-largest non-Latino community in the 1980s.
Source:
http://www.answers.com/topic/chinato...-latin-america