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Branching out the Banyan Tree: a changing Chinese America: conference proceedings introduction.

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The 2007 issue of Chinese America: History and Perspectives celebrates two milestones. First, it marks the 20th anniversary of the journal. Second, it contains the proceedings of the Chinese American town and gown conference, "Branching Out the Banyan Tree: A Changing Chinese America," that was held October 6 to 9, 2005, at the Radisson Miyako Hotel in San Francisco. It was thirty years ago that the Chinese Historical Society of America sponsored the first Chinese American conference in the nation. The 2005 conference is the 7th in the series of Chinese American conferences that CHSA initiated.

From July 10 to 12, 1975, the first Chinese American conference entitled, "The Life, Influence and the Role of the Chinese in the United States, 1776-1960," was held at the University of San Francisco with an attendance of 350-400. CHSA planned it in observance of America's bicentennial and it was endorsed by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and the San Francisco Twin Bicentennial, Inc. A proceedings was published with approximately 35 papers.

At the time of CHSA's founding in 1963, the academic disciplines of Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies did not exist, and CHSA wag the only institution established and dedicated to the study of Chinese American history. As Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies began to take their place in the academe in the fall of 1969, additional Chinese American historical societies, museums, and organizations began to emerge throughout the country. In 1980, the Chinese...

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