New York City Chinatown: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorro has been created on the web. This is a high school curriculum based on New York City government records, funded by a New York State Local Government Record Management Improvement grant and implemented at Library High School. The purpose of the project is to use government archives and historical materials to create a customized curriculum to address the special needs of our immigrant students. Its contents include social studies, by Shangsan Qian, English as a second language, by Amy Shaheen, Chinese native language arts, by Sherry Tu and Youkun Jiang, and links to other sites. Links include:
Chinatown New York
An introduction to New York City's Chinatown:
http://www.chinatown-online.com/nychinatown.htm
A photo tour of New York City's Chinatown:
http://www.nyctourist.com/chinatown1.htm
Some basic information on New York City's Chinatown and its history:
http://www.ny.com/sights/neighborhoods/chinatown.html
A short guide to Chinatown, from Moon's New York City Handbook:
http://www.moon.com/travel_matters/hot_off_the_press/nyc.html
A collection of historical photos of New York City's Chinatown, from the collection of the
Museum of the Chinese in the Americas:
http://www.nycenet.edu/csd1/museums/chinatown/
An article by Bruce Edward Hall about his grandfather's Chinatown:
http://www.americanheritage.com/99/apr/054.htm
Other Chinatowns
An introduction to San Francisco's Chinatown:
http://www.kenny-international.com/S.F./Pictures/Chinatown/PhotoEssay.html
A history of San Francisco's Chinatown:
http://www.pbs.org/kqed/chinatown/resourceguide/story.html
A history of Philadelphia's Chinatown:
http://www.balchinstitute.org/chinatown/chinatown.html
General History
The Asian immigrant experience at California's Angel Island:
http://www.a-better.com/LK-AHSTY.HTM
The Chinese Experience, 1857-1892: Material (primarily cartoons) from Harper's Weekly:
http://immigrants.harpweek.com/ImmAndEthnicAmericaHome.htm
Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum:
http://www.cprr.org/Museum/index.html
Others
A starting point to discover what Asian Pacific American communities have to offer, issues that
need to be addressed, and the bright future that lies ahead:
http://www.asianamericanartistry.com/