The Joss House featured an extensive Daoist-Buddhist shrine with statues of Guandi, Guanyin, and other deities, as well as the… Read more The Joss House
Category: Columbian Exhibition 1893
A Husband-Wife Team from San Francisco
The couple shown here is a puzzle. The Harvard anthropologist Frederick Ward Putnam, who was a top Fair official and… Read more A Husband-Wife Team from San Francisco
Rival Chinese Exposition Plans
In 1892, two groups of Chinese Chicagoans competed for the private Chinese concession at the World’s Columbian Exposition. Both planned… Read more Rival Chinese Exposition Plans
A 2005 Article on Chinese-Americans at the Fair
Mae M. Ngai, an associate professor at the University of Chicago, published an excellent article last year that shows she… Read more A 2005 Article on Chinese-Americans at the Fair
China (and Chinese America) at the Fair
“Much was hoped by the Exposition authorities in the way of a worthy exhibit from China, but unfortunate international legislation… Read more China (and Chinese America) at the Fair