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February 2020
Chinese New Year Celebration
Join the Chinese Historical Society of America before the Chinese New Year Parade for FREE MUSEUM ADMISSION all day to welcome the Year of the Rat! Enjoy our exhibitions Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion and Called to Rise: Chinese Americans in CBI, plus a full day of programs! Schedule of Events 11:00am-11:30am: A Lion Dance Performance to start off our celebration at the entrance of the Chinese Historical Society! 11:30am-1:00pm: Dr. Raymond Chong, presenting his documentary film My Odyssey. The documentary chronicles…
Find out more »Free Docent Tour
CHSA now offers free regular museum docent tours once a month to visitors who want to learn more and engage with Chinese American history in the United States. Explore the museum's galleries with a trained docent, who will provide an in-depth explanation of the topics raised in our groundbreaking exhibition Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion. If you've always wanted to delve more deeply into the complex history of the Chinese in America, and how their experiences relate to present-day events, now is…
Find out more »CHSA Book Club: “Called to Rise” Part 2
Join us this January and February for a special CHSA book club meeting discussing readings related to our Called to Rise exhibitions. Three articles have been selected from CHSA's Chinese America: History and Perspectives journal and are available exclusively at the CHSA Museum Gift Shop. Join the discussion today on Facebook! No reservation necessary, just pay-as-you-wish as a donation to CHSA. The Called to Rise discussion is a continuation of the meeting from January 15th. You do not have to be at both meetings in…
Find out more »Herbs and Roots: The Long History of Chinese Medicine in the United States
Chinese medicine has a long history in the United States, dating back to its colonial period and extending up to the present. Well before mass emigration from China to the United States began, Chinese materia medica crossed the oceans, in both directions: Chinese medicinal teas and herbs came west while Appalachian ginseng went east. Beginning in the 1850s, Chinese immigrants came to the United States and transplanted their health practices, sometimes quite literally by propagating medicinal plants in their adopted home. Chinese…
Find out more »March 2020
Free Docent Tour
CHSA now offers free regular museum docent tours once a month to visitors who want to learn more and engage with Chinese American history in the United States. Explore the museum's galleries with a trained docent, who will provide an in-depth explanation of the topics raised in our groundbreaking exhibition Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion. If you've always wanted to delve more deeply into the complex history of the Chinese in America, and how their experiences relate to present-day events, now is…
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