Introducing Graphic Artist Jean Young’s Powerful New Visuals on the History of LA’s Chinatown
The original Los Angeles Chinatown, now known as “Old Chinatown,” developed in the 1860s.
The Weight of the Asian American Vote
When Asian Americans adopt a new nation, how might voting serve as a means for expressing our varied senses of identity and community?
The Chinese Poetry Left at Angel Island, the “Ellis Island of the West”
Angel Island Immigration Station was built in 1910 in the San Francisco Bay mainly to process immigrants from China, Japan, and other countries on the Pacific Rim. Its primary mission was to better enforce the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and other anti-Asian laws enacted in subsequent years.