Harley Spiller Menus Collection at the University of Toronto, Scarborough, has a lot Chinese restaurant menus from late 19th century to almost current time. Majority of these menus are from the US, the rest are from Canada, Europe and even China.
This blog provides a community to discuss and review Asian American literature ranging from "big debates in the field or general help with a reading of a particular text."
"Established in 1991, AAWW is a national not-for-profit arts organization devoted to the creating, publishing, developing and disseminating of creative writing by Asian Americans."
Provides photographs, digital content, and full-text newspapers from North Carolina. Try search terms "Chinese" and "Chinese American" for relevant results.
"The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials."
This resource presents a basic history of Chinese communities in the United States, along with links to archival footage, photograph collections, and other primary sources.
Includes multimedia and artistic interpretations, archeological information, digital visualizations and other resources on Chinese railroad workers.
UC Berkeley: Asian American Studies Collections
Links to a variety of archival collections and online exhibits related to Chinese and Asian studies
California Digital Library (University of California): California Cultures: Asian Americans
Essays, lesson plans, and virtual exhibits related to Asian Americans in California.
University of Southern California: The Chinese Historical Society Collection of Southern California
This collection "documents artifacts systematically excavated from two sites in Southern California. The first site is represented by about 1,040 color images of artifacts from the original Los Angeles Chinatown; an additional 150 images document artifacts from the site of a Chinese laundry in Santa Barbara."
Ohio University: Overseas Chinese Databases
This resources links to a number of historical, literary, newspaper and image databases about Overseas Chinese people (including the United States, Canada, Australia and Southeast Asia.
University of British Columbia: Chinese Canadian Stories
It is a portal website for Chinese Canadian history that is multilingual with English and Chinese resources. It is a digital archive that deposits and preserves digital material created and serves in a searchable database.
The Institute for Asian American Studies (IAAS), in partnership with the Chinese Historical Society of New England, has been interviewing Chinese Americans who owned, or whose parents owned, a laundry in Massachusetts.
