“I wanted to show Chinese American history in Los Angeles, from the discrimination of the 19th century to today and becoming an empowered community and demographic,”
Jenny Chow and the LA Chinese American Historical Society has put together a 128 pages with over 200 photographs from archives of museums, historic societies, and private collection to put together a pictorial of Chinese Americans in Los Angeles from the 1850s (US Census recorded two Chinese individual in Los Angeles in that year) to 2008 with the 70th anniversary of New Chinatown (old Chinatown was razed to make way for Union Station).
The book goes on sale tomorrow, May 11, 2009.
Jenny Cho will be giving a talk about the new book on June 3, 2009 7 pm @ Castelar Elementary School in Chinatown.
There were plenty of photographs in the Downtown News article I read but could not really find photos online to illustrate this post. Pick up a copy at local Downtown News around town. You can read the article and they do have two photos here.
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