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Los Angeles' Chinatown is a location in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines. Chinatown is home to one-fifth of all Chinese people in the United States.[1] It is the scene of several important events in the World of Darkness.

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Chinatown is Kuei-jin territory. Almost universally avoided by the native western vampires, Chinatown acts as the headquarters for eastern vampire holdings in L.A. and the surrounding areas. The head of the local Mandarinate is Ming Xiao, a shape shifter who rules from the Golden Temple. The area includes a number of businesses the player can utilize depending on game-play choices.

During the Great Leap Outward, the Quincunx used Chinatown as one of their staging areas to conquer L.A. The fighting reached a stalemate by the end of 1998, after heavy casualties on both sides, during which time Jeremy MacNeil persuaded Monkey Trip Wu to rebel against Mandarin Hao Wei Liang. The Anarchs recognized Wu as the Baron of Chinatown, whereas Wu planned to establish a new Quicksilver Court in California.[2] This betrayal, and series of other setbacks, lead Mandarin Hao to face the sun in October 1999, allowing Wu to take power outright. Ancestor Jiejie Li focused her attention on San Francisco, but her policy of co-opting Anarchs with the promise of a meritocratic New Promise Mandarinate stabilized the kuei-jin position and extended Wu's authority across L.A.[3]

Wu only help power for a few months,[4] and was replaced with Ming Xiao, who was once again pushed back to Chinatown by the unstable Kin-Jin political situation. She established a haven in the Temple of Golden Virtue and allied with the Tong, the Fu Syndicate, and with Camarilla Prince Sebastian LaCroix, but eventually betrayed the last over the affair of the Ankaran Sarcophagus. She was apparently destroyed in an terrorist attack not long after.[5]

In the Time of Judgment Timeline, the Quincunx eventually retreated from Los Angeles entirely in exchange for a cash payout.[6]

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  • Chinatown is the only main district of Los Angeles in which the player has no haven.
  • It is also the only main district who is not in control of the Kindred, but the Kuei-jin.
  • There is a couple ocassionaly in the backalley behind the wall in front of Zhao's Imports with the female on her knees simulating an oral sex scene. There will be no reaction if approaching to them.

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