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  2. San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and Parade

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    The San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and Parade is an annual event in San Francisco, California, United States. Held for approximately two weeks following the first day of the Chinese New Year, it combines elements of the Chinese Lantern Festival with a typical American parade. First held in 1851, along what are today Grant Avenue and ...

  3. Qingming Festival - Wikipedia

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    It became a public holiday in mainland China in 2008, where it is associated with the consumption of qingtuan, [15] green dumplings made of glutinous rice and Chinese mugwort or barley grass. In Taiwan , the public holiday was in the past observed on 5 April to honor the death of Chiang Kai-shek on that day in 1975, but with Chiang's popularity ...

  4. Chinatown, San Francisco - Wikipedia

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    The Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, on the Condition of the Chinese Quarter of that City (1885) : 5 Emergence of tourism By the end of the 19th century, Chinatown's assumed reputation as a place of vice caused it to become a tourist destination, attracting numerous working-class white people, who sought the oriental mystery of Chinese culture and ...

  5. How Lunar New Year came to encompass different Asian ... - AOL

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    Since the first event organized by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in 1953, the San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and Parade has always been a Chinese American celebration, with a mission to ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Chinese New Year - Wikipedia

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    Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival (see also § Names), is a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. Marking the end of winter and the beginning of spring, this festival traditionally takes place from Chinese New Year's Eve, the evening preceding the first day ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Category:Chinese-American culture in the San Francisco Bay ...

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    Chinese-American culture in San Francisco‎ (3 C, 32 P) Pages in category "Chinese-American culture in the San Francisco Bay Area" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.

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