Have questions about tongs or associations? Please email advance questions by September 7, 2023, to bacgg.gail@gmail.com or bacgg.jeannie@gmail.com. George Chin (founder of Chinatown History & Culture Association) will provide a personal overview of SF's Organized Associations and will discuss the roles of associations in the Community & Social Services. Additionally, Ding Lee, director of Lee’s […]

The Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Sahyun Library by hosting a Family History Month Open House on Sunday, October 1, 1-4 pm.

Join us for dinner at Golden Dragon Restaurant and a book discussion with bestselling author Lisa See on her newest book, Lady Tan's Circle of Women.

The 1882 Foundation invites you to register for the second Chinese American Women in History conference, to be held in Washington DC this fall. Themed, “Locating Kinship Across Space and Time,” the conference aims to explore how Chinese American women, both as historical subjects and contemporary practitioners of history, have forged interpersonal connections, fostered care, […]

CHSSC has been conducting a pilgrimage to Yosemite National Park since 2012 in order to discover and highlight the contributions of the Chinese in the development of the park. Our 2023 pilgrimage will be held on October 6th, 7th (arrive evening of Oct 5th, depart Oct 8th). While the planning team finalizes the itinerary, make […]

Join Chinatown Community for Equitable Development's (CCED) second annual Chinatown Neighborhood Night Market on October 7, 5-9 pm, and support legacy small businesses of Chinatown.

Curtis Chin’s memoir about coming of age and coming out traces the author's journey through 1980's Detroit as he navigated rising xenophobia, the AIDS epidemic, and the Reagan Revolution to find his voice as a writer and activist — all set against the backdrop of his family's popular Chinese restaurant. Admission to the talk is […]

Our speaker will discuss the exhibition of educational manuals filled with colorful prints of paintings and texts on the history and methods of brush art.

The Chinese American Museum proudly announces: The 27th Annual Historymakers Awards Gala  “Standing on the Shoulders of Those Who Led the Way”  “高瞻遠矚，繼往開來”  Thursday, November 9, 2023  The Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites – 404 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA The gala’s theme, “Standing on the Shoulders of Those Who Led the Way,” honors the fearless […]

Free Admission RSVP Called an “Asian-American literary pioneer, whose writing has paved the way for many immigrants’ stories” (The New Yorker), groundbreaking novelist, poet, and memoirist Maxine Hong Kingston is the author of award-winning and influential autobiographies The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts and China Men, which blurred the lines between nonfiction and fiction. She is also […]

Gordon Chang, professor of history at Stanford University and this year's Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow, discuses the surge in anti-Asian violence during the pandemic and its roots in a long and often overlooked history. The issue of anti-Asian violence hits close to home for many, making it a topic of significant relevance. Gordon Chang […]