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Monterey Park, California, the site of Saturday’s mass shooting that left 11 dead, has historically served as a beacon for California’s Chinese community. In the 1970s, Chinese real estate developer Fred Hsieh envisioned Monterey Park as the “Chinese Beverly Hills,” purchasing and selling land in the area to house the rapid influx of immigrants flowing in from Taiwan and Hong Kong. “He told us the reason why he was buying up so much property in town was that Monterey Park was going to become the next Chinatown,” Harold Fiebelkorn, a former member of the city’s Planning Commission, told the Los Angeles Times.