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2. Chinese Historical Society of America - Wikipedia

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   Until 1966, CHSA held meetings in different peoples' homes, when the Shoong Foundation "donated" (rented at a low cost) a small space in a building that the foundation owned at 17 Adler Place [3] (Off 1140 Grant Avenue) (now Jack Kerouac Alley, San Francisco, CA 94133) to function as a museum, and a first permanent headquarters.

3. Chinese Culture Center - Wikipedia

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   The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco (or CCC) (simplified Chinese: 旧金山中华文化中心; traditional Chinese: 舊金山中華文化中心; pinyin: Jiùjīnshān Zhōnghuá Wénhuà Zhōngxīn; Jyutping: Gau 6 gam 1 saan 1 Zung 1 waa 4 Man 4 faa 3 Zung 1 sam 1) is a community-based, non-profit organization established in 1965 as the operations center of the Chinese Culture ...

4. List of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area - Wikipedia

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   San Francisco Bay Area Local history, Arts Building tours by appointment, group working to establish new museum [8] 1997 San Francisco Museum at the Mint: San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco Bay Area Local history Planned museum in the Old Mint to be operated by the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society. Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf

5. Chinese Americans in San Francisco - Wikipedia

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   As of 2012, 21.4% of the population in San Francisco was of Chinese descent, and there were at least 150,000 Chinese American residents. [1] The Chinese are the largest Asian American subgroup in San Francisco. [2] San Francisco has the highest percentage of residents of Chinese descent of any major U.S. city, and the second largest Chinese ...

6. Museum of Chinese in America - Wikipedia

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   The core exhibition With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America discusses over 160 years of Chinese American history and is augmented annually with two to four rotating exhibitions on thematic, historic, and artistic subjects. The museum in January 2015 presented Waves of Identity: 35 Years of Archiving. [24]

7. Tin How Temple - Wikipedia

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   The Tin How Temple (also spelled Tianhou Temple, simplified Chinese : 天后古庙; traditional Chinese : 天后古廟; pinyin : Tiānhòu gǔ miào) is the oldest extant Taoist temple in San Francisco 's Chinatown, and one of the oldest still-operating Chinese temples in the United States. [ 1 ] It is dedicated to the Chinese sea goddess Mazu ...

8. San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and Parade

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   During the California Gold Rush, many Chinese immigrants came to San Francisco to work in gold mines and on railroads in search of wealth and a better life. The earliest recorded New Year's celebration was "a great feast" on February 1, 1851, [7] and the first dragon dance in San Francisco was held for the New Year in 1860. [8]

9. Dragon Gate (San Francisco) - Wikipedia

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   May 1970. Opening date. October 18, 1970; 53 years ago (1970-10-18) The Dragon Gate ("Chinatown Gate" on some maps) is a south-facing gate at the intersection of Bush Street and Grant Avenue, marking a southern entrance to San Francisco 's Chinatown, in the U.S. state of California. Built in 1969 as a gift from the Republic of China (Taiwan) in ...