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In response to a growing need for access to our collections, CHSSC has introduced several digital initiatives that boost our online presence and make our library, archives, and other materials visible to a global audience. Through these efforts, we can present our histories in new, exciting ways and communicate knowledge of Chinese American heritage on a much wider scale.

China Society's March Zoom program will be Chinese rank badges from the Daoguang period to post Imperial era. Badges from this period (1821-early twentieth century) are of great interest because they are the ones that form the majority of badges in private and most museum collections, and other than modern reproductions, the most likely to […]

On Sunday, March 20th@10:00 a.m. PDT, we will welcome lecturers Steven Less and Hannah-Lea Wasserfuhr, who will give a talk as part of our Jewish People in China mini-series.  Their lecture, titled Visualizing the Past: John Less' Depictions of his Holocaust Refuge in Shanghai, will feature discussants Rachel Stern (Fritz Ascher Society) and Esther Benjamin Shifren (author).  Bob Stein […]