On-Line Exhibits
A Vision of Justice: Tyrus Wong & The Cultural Continuum of New Chinatown
In Los Angeles’s New Chinatown, in a lovingly restored blue building that flanks Central Plaza, a watercolor painting by Tyrus Wong, entitled Confucius as a Justice, hangs majestically in a beautiful office away from public view. The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California invited curator Sonia Mak of Art Salon Chinatown to organize an online virtual exhibition about this important artwork that has never been exhibited.
Los Angeles Chinatown Remembered Project
The Chinatown Remembered Project documents the history of Chinese Americans in Los Angeles in the 1930s and 1940s. This was a period of social and economic unrest across the Pacific region. Change was particularly profound for Chinese Americans in Los Angeles. In the 1930s during the depths of the depression, Los Angeles witnessed the destruction of Old Chinatown and its replacement by two new districts, China City and New Chinatown. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the city mobilized for war. The Second World War brought new industries, new opportunities, and new residents to the region, but it also saw the US government force tens of thousands of the city’s Japanese American residents into wartime incarceration camps. The lives of Chinese American youth who grew up in Los Angeles during this period were shaped by these global and local events. This project tells their story.
