With its towering red torii gate and graffiti of girls in kimonos, the neighbourhood of Liberdade in São Paulo looks like most Japanese outposts around the world.
But over the past few years, packets of seaweed have been pushed aside to make room for Chinese noodles on supermarket shelves, and Mandarin voices now fill the crowded streets.
“It was mostly just the Japanese here before, but then the Chinese came and starting buying everything,” says Jessica Chen, a Taiwanese shopkeeper in the district who moved to Brazil in 1982. “It won’t be long before China dominates the world,” she says, laughing.
您已阅读11%（603字），剩余89%（4943字）包含更多重要信息，订阅以继续探索完整内容，并享受更多专属服务。