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Chinese Americans
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Chinatown 
 This online companion to the KQED documentary contains a brief history of the San Francisco neighborhood, a bibliography, a list of Chinatown community organizations, photographs, lesson plans for teachers, and related links. http://www.kqed.org/w/hood/chinatown/ Topics: California Travel: Popular Destinations, California: Education, California: History, California: History by Place, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Mar 23, 2005 Chinese Historical and Cultural Project
"The Chinese Historical and Cultural Project (CHCP) is based in Santa Clara County, California. It was founded in 1987 as a non-profit organization to promote and preserve Chinese American and Chinese history and culture through community outreach activities." The site contains information on CHCP programs and events (including the restoration of the local Ng Shing Gung building), news, opportunities for volunteers, and more. http://www.chcp.org/ Topics: California: History, California: History by Place Last updated Aug 8, 2004 Chinese Historical Society of Southern California (CHSSC)
This site provides a detailed timeline of the Chinese in Southern California, historic photographs, the Chinese lunar calendar, a map of modern Chinatown in Los Angeles, and information about the programs the CHSSC provides to its members. http://www.chssc.org/ Topics: California Regions, California: History, California: History by Place, California: Photograph Collections, Los Angeles & Environs Last updated Aug 5, 2003 The Chinese in California, 1850-1925
A collection of about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials illustrating "nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California." Includes original illustrations, cartoons, letters, diary excerpts, speeches, sheet music, and other images and printed matter. Search or browse the material by subject, name, title, group, or theme. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/cubhtml/cichome.html Topics: California: History, California: History by Place, California: Photograph Collections, Correspondence, History, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, Social Issues Last updated Jul 15, 2006 Chinese New Year Festival & Parade
This official site for the San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade, held in February, also features events outside the area such as street and flower market fairs and the Miss Chinatown USA Pageant. Includes a brief history of the parade, which "is the largest celebration of its kind in the world," facts about Chinese New Year traditions and associated horoscope characters, a parade map, details for participants, crafts for children, and more. http://www.chineseparade.com Topics: California: History, California: History by Place, California: Recreation, Holidays and Observances Individually, San Francisco Bay Area: Oakland, San Jose, more ... Last updated Jan 25, 2006 Civil Rights Suite: Exploring the History of the Chinese American Fight for Equality
Collection of sites featuring materials that "examine the historical impact of the Chinese American fight for equality on our society." Topics include the Chinese of California, "Remembering 1882" (when "Congress passed the nation's first major immigration legislation -- a law to prevent people of Chinese descent from entering the United States"), and Chinese American actions to defend American citizenship and challenge discriminatory laws. From the Chinese American Society of America. http://www.civilrightssuite.org/ Topics: California: History, United States History Last updated May 20, 2008 Locke and Walnut Grove: Havens for Early Asian Immigrants in California
This lesson plan uses two Sacramento River towns in California for studying the Asian immigrant experience. Materials include maps, readings, images, activities, and links. From the U.S. National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places program. http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/locke/locke.htm Topics: California: History, California: History by Place, Lesson Plans, National Parks & Forests Last updated Jun 16, 2007 Oroville Chinese Temple
"Built in 1863, the Oroville [California] Chinese Temple served as a place of worship for a community of 10,000 Chinese residents." The site contains a collection of historical photographs of the temple and Chinese community of Oroville, and images of cultural artifacts from the temple's collections, including shrines, religious figures, shoes, puppets, and chairs. Also features a brief history of the temple. From the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/oroville/ Topics: California: History, California: History by Place Last updated Aug 3, 2006 Pear Garden in the West: Chinese Theater, 1852-2003
Online companion to an exhibit about Chinese theater in the United States, which was primarily based in San Francisco, where a Chinese juggling act and a Chinese opera were performed in 1852. Includes dozens of images on topics such as Chinese opera roles, the Jazz Age in Chinatown, Chinese American theater during World War II, and a recent interest in Cantonese opera. From the San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum. http://www.sfpalm.org/chinesetheater/ Topics: California: Arts and Humanities, California: History, San Francisco Bay Area: Oakland, San Jose, more ... Last updated Jun 30, 2009 |
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