Join us for our 10th annual Yosemite Sing Peak Pilgrimage. Due to the fires near Wawona, this year's pilgrimage will be

Historians Sue Fawn Chung, Will Gow, and Archaeologist Stacey L. Camp join in discussion with author Shing Yin Khor. Set in an 1880s logging camp in the Sierras, Khor's graphic novel weaves together stories of thirteen-year old Mei and her friends and family - including the mythical Auntie Po, logging camp life, and Chinese American community-building during the Chinese Exclusion Era.

After more than 2 years, we are finally getting together. Join us for fellowship and good food.

Learn about the experiences of our nine 2022 Summer Internship interns working on the Five Chinatowns project.

Last year the Louie Family Foundation awarded CHSSC a grant to research the history of the Grandview Gardens Restaurant. In order to learn more about the restaurant and its owners, CHSSC contacted the Wong family. Sophia Wong, daughter of Norman Wong and her cousin Calvin Wong, son of  Doc Wong, to learn more. Both Calvin […]

  We are an official exhibitor!

Every year since 2010 the Chinese American Museum has hosted a Commemoration event to remember the victims of the Chinese Massacre of 1871. This year, the museum is hosting a special on-site film screening and in-person program. 5:45pm PDT: Pre-event screening of “Buried History,” a short film which maps out the violent night through today’s […]

Our speaker, David Lei, co-founded the Chung Ngai Dance Troupe in 1966 and started lion dancing in 1969. After retiring from active lion dancing in 1976, he started to do research on Chinese lion dance resulting in co-publishing the 400 page "Chinese Lion Dance Explained" with Dr. William Hu in 1995. In 1965, David participated […]