A census done at the very end of the 19th century shows only 40 people registered as Chinese in Mexico City , but by 1910 , that number had grown to 1,482 . With the beginning of the Mexican Revolution , many Chinese in the northern states headed south to the city , both to escape the fighting and to escape nativist sentiment which had been particularly aimed at the Chinese . This culminated in 1913 , with 303 Chinese slaughtered in the Torreón massacre . The Chinese in Mexico City congregated on Dolores Street one block south of the Alameda Central and the Palacio de Bellas Artes , in the historic center of Mexico City . They were basically businesspeople , opening restaurants , laundries , bakeries and lard shops . While initially , this population was confined to this particular neighborhood between 1910 and 1930 , Chinese-owned businesses appeared in a number of other parts of the city , especially in the historic downtown . The number of Chinese-Mexicans in the city reached its peak during the 1920s and 1930s . when the Mexican government attempted to expel all ethnic Chinese ( Mexican-born or not ) from the country , managing to deport more than 70 % between 1930 and 1940
Torreón massacre
Torreón massacre
Barrio Chino (Mexico City)