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2006 - Chinese American Actors — including James Hong (Chinese: 吳漢章), Nancy Kwan (Chinese: 關家蒨), and Russell Wong (Chinese: 王盛德) [13] 2007 - Los Angeles Chinese American Banking Pioneers — Preston Martin, F. Chow Chan, Cathay Bank (Chinese: 國泰銀行), East West Bank (Chinese: 華美銀行), Far East National Bank ...
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.
Hall of the Scouts of China in Zhongshan District, Taipei is the headquarters of the Scouts of China. In 1945, Chinese administration of Taiwan began. A few years later, in 1949 the ROC government relocated to Taiwan, where it remains today. However, Scouting has continued in Taiwan to this day under the name Scouts of China. [2] [4] [6]
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). [1]
Chinatown is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles, California, that became a commercial center for Chinese and other Asian businesses in Central Los Angeles in 1938. The area includes restaurants, shops, and art galleries, but also has a residential neighborhood with a low-income, aging population of about 7,800 residents.
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 ...
Children's Museum of Los Angeles, closed in 2000; Hollywood Erotic Museum, closed in 2006; Sports Museum of Los Angeles, closed in 2016 [5] VIVA Art Center – Valley Institute of Visual Art, closed in 2011 [6] [7] [8] Wells Fargo History Museum (Los Angeles), closed in 2020 [9]
Chinese-American Museum of Chicago (CAMOC) 芝加哥美洲华裔博物馆 - 李秉枢中心; Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association 中華會館 / 中華公所; Chinese Freemasons (Chee Kong Tong) 洪門致公堂; Chinese Historical Society of America 美國華人歷史學會; Chinese Historical Society of Southern California ...