Afternoon, good afternoon. Welcome to the chinese historical society of america. My name is charlie chin, im officially listed here as artistinresidence but i do double duty as a historian for a very simple reason. As most of you know, artists do not make any money whatsoever. But historians are underpaid, so its actually a step up. [laughs] what we are going to do today is were going to take an overview of chinese american history. And for that will be doing to different sections. One will be an inhouse docent tour. And the other will be a Street Tour where we will look at China Town today. For your sake, of general education i should point out that we are in a building that was the old chinatown why wcs. It was built and designed in 1932 by julia morgan. A very famous female architect, who, amongst other things was a force endorsed by the why wcs for obvious reasons. The organization of the chinese historical society of america, which was founded in 1963. Its purpose was to deal with
Another. Yeah. Yeah next american History Tv visits San Franciscos chinatown to learn the history of the chinese in america. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Welcome to the chinese historical society of america. My name is charlie chin. Im officially listed here as artist and residents, but i do double duty as a historian for a very simple reason as most of you know artists dont make any money whatsoever. But historians are underpaid so its actually a step up. Well we are going to do today is were going to take an overview of chinese american history. And for that well be doing two different sections one will be an inhouse docent tour. And the other will be a street tour. We will actually look at chinatown today. For your sake of general education i should point out that we are in a building. That was the old chinatown ywca. It was built in designed in 1932 by julia morgan. Very famous female architect who amongst other things was of course endorsed by the ywca for vario
Africans and native americans. You can watch this live on cspan. Org. Next, american History Tv visits San Franciscos chinatown to learn the history of the chinese and america. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, and welcome to the chinese historical society of america. My name is charlie chin. Im officially listed here as artist in residence, but i do a double duty as a historian for a simple reason, because as you know artists dont make money, but historians are underpaid, so it is a step up. What we are going to do today is to take an overview of the chinese american history, and for that, we will be doing two different sections. One is inhouse docent tour, and one is a Street Tour where we will look at chinatown today. For your sake of general education, i should point out that we are in a building that was the old chinatown ywca. It was built and designed in 1932 by julia morgan, a very famous female architect who amongst other things endorsed by the ywca for obvious reasons. The orga
Were going to take an overview of chinese american history. And for that well be doing two different sections one will be an inhouse docent tour. And the other will be a street tour. We will actually look at chinatown today. For your sake of general education i should point out that we are in a building. That was the old chinatown ywca. It was built in designed in 1932 by julia morgan. Very famous female architect who amongst other things was of course endorsed by the ywca for various and obvious reasons. The organization is the chinas historical society of america. Which was founded in 1963 . Its purpose was to deal with the problem which basically still exists which is the study of in this case asian american history and specifically chinas american history is small much of the information that has been researched his not available to the general public usually sits on a dusty shelf in a major institution of learning and his access only by those people who feel the study it is so the
Different sections one will be an inhouse docent tour. And the other will be a street tour. We will actually look at chinatown today. For your sake of general education i should point out that we are in a building. That was the old chinatown ywca. It was built in designed in 1932 by julia morgan. Very famous female architect who amongst other things was of course endorsed by the ywca for various and obvious reasons. The organization is the chinas historical society of america. Which was founded in 1963 . Its purpose was to deal with the problem which basically still exists which is the study of in this case asian american history and specifically chinas american history is small much of the information that has been researched his not available to the general public usually sits on a dusty shelf in a major institution of learning and his access only by those people who feel the study it is so the organization amongst other Things Purpose was to ensure that average people would be able