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The Chinese Historical Society of America (simplified Chinese: 美国华人 历史 学会; traditional Chinese: 美國華人歷史學會; pinyin: Měiguó Huárén Lìshǐ Xuéhuì; Jyutping: Mei 5 gwok 3 Waa 4 jan 4 Lik 6 si 2 Hok 6 wui 6; abbreviated CHSA) is the oldest and largest archive and history center documenting the Chinese American experience in the United States.
This project was later abandoned following the rise of the Taiwanese nationalist Pan-Green Coalition, which argues that it is not the duty of Taiwan to compile the history of mainland China. In 1961, the PRC also attempted to complete the Qing history, but historians were prevented from doing so against the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution. [7]
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The journal was established in 1945 as the Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America. It obtained its current title with volume 20 in 1966. It obtained its current title with volume 20 in 1966. The journal is owned by the Asia Society , which in 2007 changed its publisher from Brepols to the University of Hawaii Press .
CHSSC has published several books. Duty & Honor was published in 1998, celebrating Chinese American World War II veterans, [9] and Portraits of Pride I (2004) & II (2012), [10] which are collections of the biographies of high achieving but little known Chinese Americans.
China Today, sub-titled "A Monthly Magazine of Information and Opinion on the Far East," was the official organ of the Friends of the Chinese People. [14] The magazine was launched in January 1934 and featured a large format of approximately 10 by 14 inches and originally bore a cover price of 15 cents a copy.
The ribbons, which represent the Chinese American’s service in the Armed Forces, hang honorably in front of a white background and portray his success in fighting for a previously all-white America. The soldier walks and steps on paper names, symbolizing the American law of 1962 that allowed for Chinese Americans to remain as American citizens.
Chinese American enclaves in the San Gabriel Valley; Chinese Exclusion Act; Chinese Flying Club of Portland; Chinese immigration to Hawaii; The Chinese in America; Chinese labor in the southern United States; Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871; Chinese Odd Fellows Building; Chinese Society Halls on Maui; Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992 ...