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Chinatown Heritage and Visitor Center. Chinese Historical Society of Southern California (CHSSC, Chinese: 南加州華人歷史學會; pinyin: Nán Jiāzhōu Huárén Lìshǐ Xuéhuì) is an historical society and organization based in Los Angeles Chinatown, California.
Chinatown, Los Angeles. Historically there has been a population of Chinese Americans in Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.As of 2010, there were 393,488 Chinese Americans in Los Angeles County, 4.0% of the county's population, and 66,782 Chinese Americans in the city of Los Angeles (1.8% of the total population).
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.
The Asian-American influx into the southwestern portion of the San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, grew rapidly when Chinese immigrants began settling in Monterey Park in the 1970s. Just east of the city of Los Angeles, the region has achieved international prominence as a hub of overseas Chinese, or hua qiao.
In November 2001 the CHSA relocated and opened the Chinese Historical Society of America Museum and Learning Center in the Chinatown YWCA building. The National Trust for Historic Preservation awarded the CHSA its National Preservation Honor Award in 2004 for its work restoring and retrofitting the 1932 building, nicknamed the "Lantern on the ...
Paul and Nancy Fong prepare meals for the lunch rush at the Chicago Cafe in Woodland. The family diner, established in 1903, was recently recognized as California's oldest Chinese restaurant.
In 2021, the author Lisa See, whose family has roots in Los Angeles’ Chinese-American community dating to the 19th century, donated a collection of glass-plate negatives of photos of Old Chinatown to the Huntington Museum in San Marino, California. The collection has been in her family since the 1940s; the exact source is unknown, someone ...
In her book “The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A History,” Kristie Wolferman reports that in 1933, 1934 and 1935, “Sickman sent crate after crate of Chinese art objects to the Nelson-Atkins.”