WHERE YOU STAND: CHINATOWN 1880 TO 1939 (你所處的位置: 唐人街 1880 年至 1939 年) Waiting Room Gallery Visit the new exhibit in Union Station. CHSSC provided support for this project. Union Station stands at the site of Los Angeles’ original Chinatown. This once vibrant community of families, businesses, and associations with roots going back to the […]
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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 […] |
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Join us to learn about Santa Barbara's early Chinese residents, their funeral practices, and burial history in the Santa Barbara Cemetery. |