For years,Cleveland's Chinese residents struggled to find a secure place in the city. Immigrants came with dreams of building a better life, but without Englishproficiency, prospects dimmed, and migrs often earned poor pay for long hoursof strenuous work. In 1925, Cleveland police responded to an especially brutaloutbreak of the tong war violence ravaging the community by arresting everyChinese person in the city, creating an international scandal. In spite of theanti-Asian sentiment of the time, the community persevered and paved the wayfor its current entrepreneurial success. Today, Clevelanders and touriststravel to the growing AsiaTown neighborhood to enjoy authentic Asian dinners,shop at Asian-owned stores and enjoy Asian-themed karaoke nights in newly builtmalls and century-old former residential homes. Alan F. Dutka vividly portraysone of the oldest and most culturally diverse neighborhoods in the city.