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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…

CHSA Publications spring 2009 catalog

Featuring the CHSA Museum booklet series, developed by curator Anna Naruta to meet the need for interpretative booklets with compelling design and an affordable price point.

While state law protects archaeological resources, a major redevelopment project planned for the site of one of Oakland's earliest Chinatowns showed community members they had to struggle to get the developer to meet their legal obligations. This…

University of California, Berkeley's magazine "The Graduate" features the rediscovery of Oakland's old San Pablo Avenue Chinatown (UptownChinatown.org).

Community historians preserved the story of Oakland city fathers in the early 1860s naming an “official” Chinatown at Telegraph and 17th Street. In the following years, Edward Chew recorded, Chinese Oaklanders would be subjected to…

Letter of support for the Notice of Intent to Landmark the owner initiated for 1966- 1968 and 1972 San Pablo Avenue. These two historic structures are over one hundred years old and are associated with significant social patterns and events in…

A compilation of research to aid the upcoming archaeological sensitivity study and treatment plan to be drafted by the archaeological contractor for Forest City’s Uptown redevelopment project.

This report was prepared for UptownChinatown.org. …