Hello everybody, I'm sure that many of you have visited the Chinatown in San Francisco. Surprisingly, the world's most famous Chinatown has a very modest gate consisting of three small green arches with the message 天下為公.
A Google search revealed that it means the world is for the people. But I dug a little deeper to find the true meaning of the phrase. Apparently, it means "although the world once belonged to emperors, it now belongs to the people."
Is that true? Is there really such a meaning behind it? How did that message get chosen to be on the gate of San Francisco's Chinatown? Why is that particularly significant, and would it be a better fit here than at the Chinatown of a different city?
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