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Chinese Temples in the Pacific Northwest
October 26, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm UTC-8
At the Guild’s October program meeting, Dr. Chuimei Ho and Dr. Bennet Bronson will discuss “What happened to Chinese temples in the Northwest? In the 1910s, how did a formerly vital Daoist-Buddhist faith, central to the lives of tens of thousands of immigrants, vanish almost without a trace? Was Christianity the cause?”
Dr. Chuimei Ho was born in Hong Kong and received a Ph.D in art history and archaeology from the University of London. She was a founder and first president of the Chinese American Museum of Chicago. She has published 25 articles and three books on Chinese art and archaeology. Her current main interest is the history of the Chinese in the Americas.
Dr. Bennet Bronson specializes in the archaeology of human cultures in eastern Asia and in the history of Chinese Americans. He is formerly a curator of Asian Archaeology and Ethnology at Chicago’s Field Museum and adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has been involved for a number of years in archaeological and ethnographic work in China, Thailand, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka.
Together they are co-editors of the Chinese in Northwest America Research Committee website (www.cinarc.org) and authors of Three Chinese Temples in California. They also wrote Coming Home in Gold Brocade, Chinese in Early Northwest America.