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Until 1966, CHSA held meetings in different peoples' homes, when the Shoong Foundation "donated" (rented at a low cost) a small space in a building that the foundation owned at 17 Adler Place [3] (Off 1140 Grant Avenue) (now Jack Kerouac Alley, San Francisco, CA 94133) to function as a museum, and a first permanent headquarters. [1]
A permanent exhibit at the museum is the recreation of the Hing Yuen Hong Chinese Herb Shop of yesteryear. Another permanent exhibit opened on December 13, 2012, is "Origins: The Birth and Rise of Chinese American Communities in Los Angeles", celebrating the growth and development of Cantonese American enclaves from Downtown Los Angeles to the San Gabriel Valley.
This list of museums in Los Angeles is a list of museums located within the City of Los Angeles, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
On November 1, 1975, the CHSSC held its founding meeting at Cathay Bank in Los Angeles, California. Its key attendees included Paul Louie, William Mason, and Paul De Falla. [6] Its mission is: To bring together people with a mutual interest in the important history and historical role of Chinese and Chinese Americans in Southern California;
The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco (or CCC) (simplified Chinese: 旧金山中华文化中心; traditional Chinese: 舊金山中華文化中心; pinyin: Jiùjīnshān Zhōnghuá Wénhuà Zhōngxīn; Jyutping: Gau 6 gam 1 saan 1 Zung 1 waa 4 Man 4 faa 3 Zung 1 sam 1) is a community-based, non-profit organization established in 1965 as the operations center of the Chinese Culture ...
The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space. University of Texas Press, February 17, 2009. ISBN 0292782098, ISBN 9780292782099. Cho, Jenny and the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California. Chinatown and China City in Los Angeles (Postcard History). Arcadia Publishing, 2011. ISBN 0738581658, ISBN 9780738581651. Gow, William (2018).
The Sloomoo Institute is a playful palace dedicated to all things slime, where guests can toss it, mold it, walk on it, get drenched by it and even experience the ASMR benefits of it.
Foods came to China from abroad, including raisins, dates, Persian jujubes, and grape wine. The Venetian visitor Marco Polo noted that rice wine was more common than grape wine, however. [57] Although grape-based wine had been known in China since Han dynasty Chinese ventured into Hellenistic Central Asia, it was reserved for the elite. [45]