46th Firecracker Run/Walk, Bike and Dog Event

Celebrate Lunar New Year with an evening of Chinese folk songs and exuberant village dances.

Author Soo Yin Jue discusses her true story about a Chinese farming family in the San Fernando Valley as they navigate the storms of Chinese Exclusion and the inner landscape of changing identities brewing among its members, a combination that threatens to blow apart the family on two continents.

Join us for our dinner/program at the Golden Dragon Restaurant and learn about the early history of the Asian Studies program at USC.

Join Isabela Seong Leong Quintana, community historian and Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at UC Irvine, as she explores what it meant to be modern and a girl for Mexican Americans and Chinese Americans during the tumultuous 1930s, a time when deportation raids, repatriation campaigns, ongoing anti-Chinese exclusion policies, and economic downturn permeated the world of Mexican and Chinese Angelenos.

Date for our Ching Ming observance has changed due to the possibility of rain on Saturday, April 13. The new date and time for our Ching Ming observance is Friday, April 12, 11am-12pm at the 19th Century Chinese Shrine at the east end of Evergreen Cemetery.

Ken Fong will share stories of his late father, James King Fong, a bona fided war hero, having flown 38 missions over Germany during WWII. But when the majority of Americans—even those of Chinese or Asian descent—think about who put on the uniforms and risked their lives to defeat the Axis powers, they don’t think of his father or the nearly 20,000 other Americans of Chinese descent who also served and fought.

  Ken grew up badgering his dad to share his war stories, and he will tell a few of the most memorable ones during our May program so that ABC’s like him will no longer be so invisible. Speaker Bio: Dr. Ken Fong is a third-generation Chinese American from Sacramento, CA. Graduating in 1976 from […]

Join us to learn about Santa Barbara's early Chinese residents, their funeral practices, and burial history in the Santa Barbara Cemetery.

Asian Americans have proudly worn the uniform of the United States Armed Forces. This exhibit honors the little known service of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean & Vietnamese American service men and women from the Civil War to Afghanistan.

Join the Chinese American Museum on Sunday, May 19th at 10:30am for the next installment of Beyond the Page where we will be celebrating the launch of Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community by William Gow. Gow’s book explores the Chinese American community’s contributions to the Hollywood film industry and Los Angeles tourism scene during the early 20th century.

Join us as we recognize various AAPI military veterans together for the first-time event in the County of Los Angeles.