In this final week of the Lunar New Year, we wanted to shed light on Chinese Americans in the South Bay and their deep roots in San Jose.
When we think of Bay Area Chinatowns, we often think of San Francisco and Oakland. But at one time, San Jose's Chinatown was the second largest Chinatown in California. In fact, the City of San Jose was once home to five Chinatowns, dating all the way back to the 1860s.
"This is a picture of my grandmother, and there's my father," said Connie Young Yu. Yu is a third-generation Chinese-American whose roots are in San Jose. Yu and her family donated most of the artifacts inside San Jose's Chinese American Historical Museum in History Park. "He could see the smoke rising from his homebase," said Yu."His Chinatown was burning, so we have that oral history in my family. He always said you know, it was an arson fire, but we did not want to leave San Jose. We would not be driven out."She showed us the second floor of the museum.
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