Chinese Historical Society of America
965 Clay Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
Phone: (415) 391-1188
Fax: (415) 391-1150
http://www.chsa.org/
The Chinese Historical Society of America is the oldest and largest organization dedicated to the study, documentation and dissemination of Chinese American history.
Please visit their website for exhibits, lectures, tours and other events.
Tuesday – Friday
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12–5 pm
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Closed all major holidays:
New Year’s Day, Veteran’s Day, July 4th, Christmas and Lunar New Year’s Day.
Museum Admission
Adults: $3
College Students (with ID) and Seniors: $2
Children 6-17: $1
Free for CHSA members and children 5 and under
Free to the public on the first Thursday of every month
Transportation
By Bus: Eastbound 1 California buses stop at Clay and Powell Streets. Westbound 1 California buses stop at Sacramento and Powell Streets. Both Northbound and Southbound 30 Stockton buses stop on Stockton between Sacramento and Clay Streets.
By Cable Car : Stop at the intersection of Clay and Powell Streets.
By Car: Parking is available at Portsmouth Square, on Kearny Street between Clay and Washington Streets, and St. Mary's Square at Grant and California Streets.
Mapquest
For a map & driving directions: click here to view on Mapquest.
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You are cordially invited to a very special book event at CHSA:
Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon
Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 6 pm
CHSA Museum & Learning Center
In the closing event of the Year of the Ox, Author Gregory Nokes will talk about his new book, Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon, in a special presentation at CHSA.
Nokes’ nonfiction book is the first authoritative account of the long-overlooked 1887 massacre of as many as 34 Chinese gold miners massacre, which occurred at a Hells Canyon mining camp, now officially named Chinese Massacre Cove. The book traces the author’s difficult journey in digging out the facts of the crime, including breaking through the reluctance of two long-time residents of Wallowa County to tell what they knew.
Nokes also steps back to explain why Chinese immigrated to the Pacific Northwest, what they did, how they were treated, and what became of them. Along with gold mining, the Chinese helped build the new railroads then spanning the West.
The massacre was the worst of the many crimes committed by whites against the approximately 300,000 Chinese, most of them poor, who emigrated to the American West in search of work in the second half of the 19th century. While no one ever was convicted of the massacre, evidence pointed to an improbable gang of seven rustlers and schoolboys, one of whom was only 15 years old.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nokes is a former reporter and editor, with more than 40 years experience in journalism, including with The Associated Press and The Oregonian. While with the Associated Press, he served as a foreign correspondent in Latin America and as a diplomatic correspondent in Washington, D.C. His travels as a journalist took him to more than 50 countries, including three trips to China. A native of Oregon, Nokes lives with his wife, Candise, in West Linn. For more information, please visit: www.rgregorynokes.com. |
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American Chinatown BOOK READING
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 6 pm
CHSA Museum & Learning Center
In AMERICAN CHINATOWN: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods, acclaimed travel writer Bonnie Tsui embarks on a journey to find out what Chinatown means to its inhabitants – and what it means to America at large.
Tsui explores the lives, stories and struggles of those in the country’s five most famous Chinatowns: New York (the biggest), San Francisco (the oldest), Los Angeles (the film icon), Honolulu (the crossroads), and Las Vegas (the newest).
Each of these Chinatowns is curiously different: Vegas’ Chinatown is in a mall, Honolulu’s is a melting pot of several ethnicities (Vietnamese, Filipino), New York’s is driven by business (the garment and restaurant industries). AMERICAN CHINATOWN is the first book to use stories from these iconic neighborhoods to illustrate the unique complexities established by a century and a half of Chinese immigration.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bonnie Tsui is a frequent contributor to The New York Times. A former editor at Travel + Leisure, she has written for National Geographic Adventure, Salon, and Condé Nast Traveller. She is the editor of A Leaky Tent Is a Piece of Paradise, a collection of essays on the outdoors, and is a recipient of the Radcliffe Traveling Fellowship, the Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalism, and the Jane Rainie Opel Award. |
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Celebrate the Lunar New Year!
Saturday, March 6, 2010, 2-4 pm
CHSA Museum & Learning Center
Come celebrate the Lunar New Year with a reception & open house at CHSA! This special occasion will also feature the grand opening the new exhibit: "The Architecture of San Francisco's Chinatown."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born and raised in San Francisco's Chinatown, Phil Choy became a renowned authority on Chinese American history and also the author of the recent publications /The Architecture of San Francisco Chinatown/ and /Canton Footprints: Sacramento's Chinese Legacy/. A retired architect, Phil has served on the San Francisco Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board and the California State Historical Resources Commission.
"Present-day visitors to Chinatown see it only as an unassimilated foreign community where cultural traditions are preserved and where the architectural forms are mere transplants from China. Transfixed by cultural exotics, few see that the social history of the community is intimately interwoven with its architecture."
--/The Architecture of San Francisco Chinatown/
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