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LA Chinatown Heritage & Visitors Center

(open Wednesdays through Fridays 11am-3pm and Sundays 12pm-4:30pm)

411 Bernard St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

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Chinese American History Resources

Foundations
Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation

Historical Societies

Chicago Chinese American Historical Society - Chicago, Illinois
Chinese Historical Society of America - San Francisco, California
Chinese Historical Society of New England - Boston, Massachusetts
Chinese Historical Society of Southern California - Los Angeles, California
Fiddletown Preservation Society
- Fiddletown, California
Mai Wah Society - Butte, Montana

Museums
Bahay Tsinoys - Manila, Philippines
Chinese American Museum - Los Angeles, California
Chinese American Museum of Chicago - Chicago, Illinois
Dai Loy Museum - Locke, California
Mai Wah Museum - Butte, Montana
Museum of Chinese in the Americas - New York, New York
San Diego Chinese Historical Museum - San Diego, California
Wing Luke Museum - Seattle, Washington

Print Publications
  • Abraham, Terry, ed., Chinese Servants in the West: Florence Baillie-Grohman's "The Yellow and White Agony," Asian American Comparatve Collection Research Report, No, 2, Asian American Comparative Collection, Laboratory of Anthoropology, University of Idaho.
  • Anderson, Kay J. "The Idea of Chinatown: The Power of Place and Institutional Practice in the Making of a Racial Category." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 77 (1987): 580-598.
  • Arreola, D. "The Chinese Role in Creating the Early Cultural Landscape of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta." California Geographer 15 (1975): 1-15.
  • Barth, Gunther, "Bitter Strength: A History of the Chinese in the United States, 1850-1870" (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1964)
  • Brown, Catherine L. and Clifton, W. Pannell. "The Chinese in America." In Ethnicity in Contemporary America: A Geographical Appraisal, ed. Jesse O. McKee, 195-216. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1985.
  • Chang, Iris, The Chinese in America : A Narrative History, Viking Press, 2003
  • Chinese Historical Society of Southern California Publications
  • Chu, Daniel and Chu, Samuel. Passage to the Golden Gate: A History of the Chinese in America until 1910. New York: Doubleday, 1967.
  • Fellows, Donald K. "Chinese." In A Mosaic of America's Ethnic Minorities, 99-120. New York: Wiley and Sons, 1972.
  • Gardner, A. Dudley, "The Chinese in Wyoming: Life in the Core and Peripheral Communities," South Dakota History, 33 (Winter 2003), 380?90.
  • Hart, Jerome A., In Our Second Century. The Pioneer Press (1931)
  • Hardesty, Donald L., "Archaeology and the Chinese Experience in Nevada," South Dakota History, 33 (Winter 2003), 363?79.
  • Kim, Hyung-Chan, ed., Dictionary of Asian American History, (New York: Greenwood Press, 1986)
  • King, Haitung and Locke, Frances. "The Chinese in the United States: A Century of Occupational Transistion." International Migration Review 14 (Spring, 1980): 15-42.
  • Lee, Calvin., Chinatown, U.S.A. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965.
  • Lee, Rose H., The Chinese in the United States. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1960.
  • Locklear, William R.,
    The Celestials and the Angels: A Study of the Anti-Chinese Movement in Los Angeles to 1882." The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, September, 1960, Vol. XLII-No. 3, pp 239-256.
  • McClain, Charles J., In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle Against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994)
  • Murphey, Rhoads, "Boston's Chinatown." Economic Geography 28 (1952): 244-255.
  • Pfaelzer, Jean, "Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans." (Random House, New York, 2007)
  • Renner, George T. "Chinese Influence in the Development of the Western United States." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 152 (1930): 356-369.
  • Tsai, Shih-Shan Henry, The Chinese Experience in America. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986)
  • Sandmeyer, Elmer Clarence, The Anti-Chinese Movement in California (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991).
  • Yung, Judy; Chang, Gordon H.; Lai, Mark, eds. Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2006).
  • Zhu, Liping, "A Chinaman's Chance: The Chinese on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier," University of Colorado Press, 1997
  • Zhu, Liping, "Ethnic Oasis: Chinese Immigrants in the Frontier Black Hills."
    To purchase, contact sdshspress@state.sd.us.
  • ________. "Cityscape of Old Chinatowns in North America." In Vision, Culture, and Landscape: Working Papers from the Berkeley Symposium on Cultural Landscape Interpretation, ed. Paul Groth, 77-97. Berkeley: Department of Landscape Architecture, University of California-Berkeley, 1990.
  • ________. "The Decline of Chinatowns in the United States." American Journal of Sociology 54 (March 1949): 422-432.
Special Projects < b>Other Resources
Bok Kai Temple - Marysville, California
Chinatownology
The Chinese American Experience 1857-1892
Chinese in/from Latin America by UCLA faculty Dr. Clara Chu
Chinese Immigrants in Wyoming
Chinese-American Contribution to Transcontinental Rail Road
The Pioneer Chinese of Utah

Legislations
Foreign Miners Tax, 1852
California Police Tax, 1862
Burlingame Treaty, 1868, revised 1880
Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882, amended 1884
Scott Act, 1888
Geary Act, 1892, 1902, 1904
Alien Land Law, 1913
Oriental Exclusion Act, 1924
Chinese Exclusion repeal Act, 1943
War Bride Act, 1945
Displaced Person Act, 1948
California Law banning interracial marriage repealed, 1948
Refugee Acts, 1948
Immigration Act of 1965 (Hart-Cellar Reform Act)