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Present-day visitors to Chinatown see it only as an unassimilated foreign community where cultural traditions are preserved and where the architectural forms are mere transplants from China. Transfixed by cultural exotics, few see that the social…

The long history of Chinese immigrant and Chinese American workers organizing in guilds and labor unions -- in California, from the Gold Rush to the building of the transcontinental railroad and onwards -- was obscured in the decades following the…

THROUGHOUT San Francisco’s history, there were white European Americans who desired to dislocate Chinese Americans from Chinatown and redevelop the area’s prime real estate. In 1904, a publicly-traded company incorporated to achieve just…

From Unshakable: Rebirth of S.F. Chinatown in 1906, Sing Tao Daily Commemorative Supplement, April 15, 2006 (Content Consultant: Anna Naruta), "Pre-quake Demographics" the supplement's report on San Francisco Chinatown composition in 1900, and the…

Known as “The Godmother of the Day of the Dead in the US,” Yolanda Garfias Woo has been making ofrendas and teaching others for more than half a century. “My father, who was a Zapotec from the State of Oaxaca, instilled in me an…