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Our mission is to advance the appreciation of Chinese American culture through exhibitions, education, and research and to preserve the past, present, and future of Chinese Americans primarily in the Midwest. The Museum building, formerly the Quong Yick Co., is located in Chicago's Chinatown, at 238 West 23rd Street, Chicago, IL 60616 1/2 block west of Wentworth Ave. and 3 blocks from the Chinatown station of the CTA's Red Line.
Operating as usual
WGN-TV includes Chinatown as one of many diverse and culturally historic neighborhoods on Chicago's South Side. The reporting crew recently took a tour of the museum to cover the history of Chinatown. You can view the full coverage here: http://ow.ly/TdHj50BliCr
Grandma's chair, a stuffed bunny, a watch from Dad: all new additions from recent visitors to "Share your own Attic Treasure"! Share yours when you visit our current exhibition #AtticTreasuresII. If you can't make it in person, you can view it online here: http://bit.ly/attictreasuresII
Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community- CBCAC
☀️ The September forecast says we can expect sunny, cheery people helping folks register to #vote and fill out the #2020Census on weekends in Chinatown!
☔ On weekdays that may feel stormy without our bubbly staff and volunteers, take shelter at the Chinese American Museum of Chicago - Raymond B. & Jean T. Lee Center to register to vote or apply to #VoteByMail!
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#CountUsIn #ILCountMeIn2020 #MakeILCount #ChicagoCountMeIn2020 #ChiTownCounts #CookCountyCensus #GetCounted #BeCounted #Census2020
#November2020 #November3rd #GetOutTheVote #GetOutTheVote2020 #vote2020 #election #election2020 #2020election #November #ElectionDay
Consumer Action
HEALTH & WEALTH: There are many connections between physical health and financial health, from inadequate health insurance to insufficient protections to prevent the consequences of deep medical debt. Ideas for addressing them abound—and we will closely examine some of them at our online Health and Financial Wealth sessions on Sept. 29 and 30. In a 90-minute online session each day, Consumer Action will bring together non-profit and industry experts and community representatives to discuss critical topics like surprise medical billing, medical debt collection, telemedicine, and innovative solutions for access to health care for underrepresented consumers. https://www.consumer-action.org/anniversary/convening
Wed, Sep 9 @ 12-1pm CDT Consumer Action will host a free webinar: "Tracking the COVID-19 Economic Devastation: Workers facing job losses, and education and training strategies for recovery." Register here:
http://ow.ly/hi4y50BghMI
Visit us this month during our new museum hours! If you are not able to join us in person, you can view our current exhibition #AtticTreasuresII online here: https://bit.ly/attictreasuresII
9/1/2020 - 9/30/2020
Tue - Fri: 9:30am to 2pm
Sat - Sun: 11am to 3pm
Compiled by friends of the museum, the recipes in “Have you eaten yet?” represent family celebrations, festivals, and memories, but especially the love of eating and cooking Chinese food. Get your copy from the museum shop or online here and start cooking! http://ow.ly/CZBz50B2OBb
SAVE THE DATE: What's at Stake for the Chinese/Chinese American Museum in the United States?: An Intergenerational Conversation
DATE: Thu, Sep 24
Time: 7 - 8:30 CST
Location: Virtual Space
RSVP here: https://bit.ly/3kYqu3N
What does the future of Chinese/Chinese American museums look like both locally and nationally amid the various major crises we are facing, including the pandemic, the BLM uprising, and the rising anti-Asian sentiment? How does the museum encourage the participation among younger generations? What are the differences in terms of priorities, visions, values, and politics among different generations in the Chinese diaspora? How do we reconcile these differences and build cross-generational alliances? This event aims at opening up space for intergenerational conversations for us to strategize for the future of Chinese museums in the United States. We particularly encourage high school, college students, and young professionals to join us for this conversation.
Today is Chinese Valentine's Day, or Qixi Festival! Listen to the history of the holiday here:
https://chinesemythologypodcast.com/2018/04/09/episode-21-chinese-valentines-day/
Click here to listen It’s around the Valentine’s Festival and I am in the mood of telling more love stories recently. I know Valentine’s Day is a western festival, however, there …
In 1962, Hardin Park was demolished to build the Dan Ryan Expressway. After three decades, Ping Tom Park (named after beloved community leader Ping Tom) finally opened in 1999. Fun fact: it was also the finish point of The Amazing Race in 2005!
http://ow.ly/iKZS50AWFZC
For decades, Chicago's Chinatown neighborhood didn't have a park or any significant green space. Roughly 20 years ago, that changed. Get to know the story of Ping Tom Park, one of the city's hidden gems.
East Asian immigrant entrepreneurs playing a big part in remaking Chicago
Unlike previous generations coming to Chicago, this one typically brings middle-class backgrounds, coming to the United States for college.
Qiao Lin Hotpot opened this week, just the first restaurant to open in the Chinatown area after the coronavirus closures.
Looking for some quarantine reading? Raymond Lee's memoir "Growing up in Chicago's Chinatown: The Stories of Raymond Lee" offers an insider perspective on the history of Chinatown. You can purchase it in person at the museum or from our online book shop!
https://ccamuseum.org/product/growing-up-in-chicagos-chinatown/
Photos from Chinese American Museum of Chicago - Raymond B. & Jean T. Lee Center's post
Associate Board
Chinatown Museum Foundation, which governs the Chinese American Museum of Chicago, is forming an Associate Board with the purpose of generating new opportunities for the Museum, especially with...
Did you know that the earliest use of the kite recorded was in China? It is said that Chinese philosophers Mozi and Lu Ban invented it during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC). Here is one of the three kites we have on view now in #AtticTreasuresII
Did you know that Chinese-Americans also fought in the Civil War, for both the Union and the Confederacy? Though their ranks were likely small, they played an important role in a strange moment in American history.
http://ow.ly/VXMy50AKzqH
Even in a nation obsessed with its civil war, the United States glosses over the role of Chinese-American soldiers who fought on both sides.
Why does this year's census matter? #2020Census #ChicagoCountMeIn2020
https://www.rollcall.com/2020/06/18/census-trying-to-fix-history-of-undercounting-minorities/
In 2010, the census missed 2.1 percent of African Americans, 1.5 percent of Hispanics and 4.9 percent of Native Americans on reservations.
Visit us this month during our updated museum hours!
8/1/20 - 8/31/20
Tue - Fri: 10am - 2pm (previously 10am - 1pm)
Sat - Sun: 11am - 3pm
See you soon!
Designed under the supervision of Paul Gerhardt, the city architect, and funded by the federal government's depression-era, the station has existed at this address since the 19th century. The trucks and the ambulance bear Chinese and Arabic numerals, as well as a dragon logo created especially for Chinatown station.
Relations between the station and the community are good, as shown by the care firemen took in protecting the Museum's exhibits while putting out the 2008 fire.
Besides the On Leong building, Michaelsen and Rognstad designed two other buildings in the Chinatown area—Won Kow restaurant, Chinatown's oldest restaurant, and the Moy association building. #Chicago #Chinatown
http://ow.ly/aNM150AymRN
Antique American Architectural Artifacts
Photograph of 37 8th graders graduating from St. Therese School. Headshots of Sr. Frances Horan, Rev. Thomas Bauer, principal H.S. Barrientos, and image of the school building are also featured. Founded in 1941, St. Therese Chinese Catholic School was the first Catholic school for Chinese children in the Midwest. 1980. #AtticTreasuresII
Don’t miss our wonderful exhibition If you can’t visit us yet, check out our online exhibition here: http://ow.ly/n95i50AGnCI
https://freespiritmedia.org/features-search/2020/7/21/58h2hrrzrjrozoc1f4h70150j8ixtu
The Chinese American Museum of Chicago reopened July 1 after being closed for over three months as Chicago entered Phase 4 of the state’s reopening plan.
A Must-See treasure from our AT II exhibit:
Wooden cane with elaborate silver handle depicting auspicious figures known as the Three Stars (San Xing): Happiness (Fu), Emoluments and Official Preferment (Lu), and Longevity (Shou).
Happiness is in the retired-scholar attire. Emoluments and Official Preferment is draped in a long robe with :shou" characters and holding a ruyi scepter with an inscription reading "guan xing" (star of officials). Longevity carries a peach as a symbol of immortality.
This cane belonged to Frank Moy (1874-1937), often considered the unofficial "Mayor of Chinatown."
#AtticTreasuresII
Do you know the history of the ponytail long-braided pigtail or “queue” (辫子, biànzi)?
https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2019/07/hairy-history/
An introduction to the Manchu pigtail, the most controversial hairstyle in Chinese history
Amazing documentary shows the whole process of how to use graver as pen and wood as paper to carefully carve for thousands of times based on ingenious design, to lacquer the handiwork, to paste gold on it and finally make it a magnificent piece of art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4if6irRC008
Gold lacquered wood carving has a history of more than one thousand years. According to historical document, “Gold lacquered wood carving of Chaoyang began i...
Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community- CBCAC
🌿 Chinatown Census Yard Signs 🌿
Pick up free yard signs at the Chinese American Museum of Chicago - Raymond B. & Jean T. Lee Center (please check the museum's hours) to help your neighbors remember to answer the #2020Census!
Our team is already having fun with the signs and had planted some in Ping Tom Park. Tag us if you post pictures of the yard signs!
#ILCountMeIn2020 #MakeILCount #ChicagoCountMeIn2020
#ChiTownCounts #CookCountyCensus #BeCounted #Census2020
Growing up Chinese American. You are Chinese at home, American at school. This is what the generations born in the U.S. had most in common. How did your parents influence you? How do you handle the differences between Chinese and American cultures?
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/love-language-of-my-chinese-american-parents
In my household, cut fruit means “I love you.”
Completed in 1928, The Pui Tak Building (Former On Leong Building) was designed by the Chicago based architectural firm of Michaelsen and Rognstad.
The official Landmarks website says that "the Oriental-style design was derived from the architecture of the Guangdong province of China." However this is not true. The architects gave themselves a crash course in traditional Chinese architecture through referencing a series of books on the subject. The overall design and decorative details are not Chinese but instead represent Michaelson's or Rognstad's reinvention of Chinese forms. They did a good job anyway. With a budget of a million dollars, they produced the finest large building in any North American Chinatown.
The decorative tiles on the walls of the building are American, not Chinese, made by the Teco Pottery Company in Crystal Lake, Illinois. Teco vases and flower pots had similar glazes and now considered to be highly collectible. #ChicagoChinatown #Chinatownhistory
Only 2 days left for gift giveaway! Come visit us and get your gift this weekend.🎁
Dear CAMOC Community,
We sincerely invite you to participate and support our Together Against COVID-19 project to record the experience and stories during the fight against the epidemic. Every story is very important to us, we look forward to hearing your story. Please see below for details and feel free to share this announcement with your friends and family.
親愛的朋友,
我們誠摯的邀請您參與和支持我們的同心抗疫COVID-19 項目來記錄對抗疫情期間的經歷和故事。對於我們來說，每一個故事都非常珍貴，我們期待聽到您的故事。詳情信息請看下文，歡迎您轉發邀請親朋好友來支持我們的項目。
CAMOC started this special collection with the goal of recording the experiences and stories of individuals, families, and organizations during these unprecedented times. The Together Against Covid-19 Collection will include various forms of content, which can be photos, videos, articles, audios, letters, paintings, certificates, or any form you can think of. If you are not sure whether your content fits our collection or you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Please send your story to [email protected] , with the subject Together Against Covid-19 Collection. And please include your contact information , including full name, organization or community if applicable, email, phone number, and mailing address.
同心抗疫 COVID-19 項目將記錄疫情下個人、家庭，以及組織的經歷和故事。項目內容將涵蓋所有表達形式，例如照片、影片、文章、錄音、信件、畫作、證書，或任何您能想到的任何表達方式。如果您不確定您的故事是否符合我們的項目或有任何問題，歡迎您聯繫我們。
請將您的故事以郵件方式發送至 [email protected] ，標題 同心抗疫 COVID-19。請務必在郵件中寫明個人信息，包括姓名、組織名稱（如果有）、電子郵箱、電話，和郵寄地址。#COVID19 #Coronavirus
Check out the amazing details of this hardwood throne chair. Chinese coins suspended from bat holder, 2 women holding fans, 3 women and 2 children on waves, confronting foo lions with fruit. On arm rails: dragons with open mouths. On apron: hanging fruit and shou character. Come visit our Attic Treasures II exhibit and see all the beautiful details in person.
Happy 4th of July! We are open July 4th at 11AM, stop by the museum and check out our exhibits before lunch in Chinatown.
It's no secret that elderly folks across the country are experiencing the brunt of COVID-19. That, coupled with racism railed at the Chinese community, wrongf
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To take the #2020Census in your preferred language, go to my2020census.gov and click “English” on the upper-right corner of the window & pick your language! For help completing your Census, call 1-844-330-2020. To access TDD for the hearing impaired, call 1-844-467-2020. 請到網站my2020census.gov，選擇視窗右上角的「English (英文)」來轉換語言成「中文(簡體)」以連到您的中文版2020年人口普查問卷。如果您填寫2020年人口普查問卷時需要任何協助，請撥打免付費電話1-844-391-2020(中文) 或1-844-398-2020
Chinese Railroad Workers Historical Memorial Monument From Steven Lee: Hi everyone, It's been a long four year road and the monument is finally here at its temporary home at the California Railroad Museum in Sacramento. You all should be congratulated for all the hard work selecting the right artists, creating a exhibit, attending the fundraisers, and donating time or money. We are still dealing with the application details with Caltrans and hopefully will can start work in Gold Run later in the year. In the meantime, the California Railroad Museum will host the Monument until were ready. You can see it in your own or we are scheduling bus tours to see it will be made once a month all summer long. I will keep you informed of the dates if you want to join us.. The attached video clip shows you how strong and powerful the Chinese Workers were, no negative stereotypes here. Please share it with whomever I missed on the email thread and to new interested donors before we close off the names to be placed on the bronze plague for the CRRW Plaza at Gold Run. These donations can help us cover the $150K needed to finish the Chinese Railroad Workers Plaza now. Thank you all again.
Got to see the Gold Mountain musical at Peery's Egyptian Theater tonight http://egyptiantheaterogden.com/node/1043
Mid-Autumn Festival is a harvest festival celebrated in East Asian countries on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. This year, it falls on September 24, so we got the festivities started early!
Live from Ping Tom Memorial Park
We are open July 4! Stop by and see us if you can!
We had fun at The Adler Planetarium for Adler After Dark: Solstice Bash
Live at “What does it mean to be Chinese in America” with Chicago-based artist Mark Yee and storyteller Dr. Ada Cheng, co-sponsored by University of Illinois at Chicago Global Asian Studies Program and co-hosted with Coalition for A Better Chinese American Community ORIGIN Youth Program (Pt. 2)
Live at “What does it mean to be Chinese in America” with Chicago-based artist Mark Yee and storyteller Dr. Ada Cheng, co-sponsored by University of Illinois at Chicago Global Asian Studies Program and co-hosted with Coalition for A Better Chinese American Community ORIGIN Youth Program (Pt. 1 - sorry, phone died after 1.5 hours)
Let the show begin!
Chinatown My Chinatown - Cynthia Yee - Emily Chin - Avis See-Tho - Pat Nishimoto
Live from the Chinese American Museum of Chicago, here are the Grant Avenue Follies
More of what’s to come tomorrow
Practice for tomorrow from Grant Avenue Follies
Head AND tail (that’s auspicious according to Chinese customs)
Head AND tail (it’s auspicious according to Chinese customs!)
The pro shows us how it’s done (lobster head and tail)
We’re live from DANK Haus German American Cultural Center at their International Game Night
He’s definitely got rhythm (our Board Director Ed Jung showing off his dance moves)
It’s an honor we had Qiu Yuanping, Minister of Overseas Chinese Affairs- Office of the State Council, come to visit the museum this Friday.
We’re live from Chicago Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade
We’re live from Chicago Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade
We’re live from the Chicago Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade
Pre-lion dance practice at Jewel-Osco on Broadway Chinese New Year Celebration
Live from Broadway Jewel-Osco, here’s Kerry Leung, our perennial favorite!
We’re live from Jewel-Osco on Broadway at their Chinese New Year Celebration
Get ready to hear all about how food has evolved from The Field Museum scientists
Our mission is to advance the appreciation of Chinese American culture through exhibitions, education, and research and to preserve the past, present, and future of Chinese Americans primarily in the Midwest. The Museum building, formerly the Quong Yick Co., is located in Chicago's Chinatown, at 238 West 23rd Street, Chicago, IL 60616 1/2 block west of Wentworth Ave. and 3 blocks from the Chinatown station of the CTA's Red Line.
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