Chinese in San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley

Indexed by Matthew Yoshimoto

Last Name, First or TopicPage(s)Image Type Other Information
Acorn Campus Ventures105photo
Adams, Tony112photoDr.; UC Berkeley School of Optometry dean
Albertini, Laurie111photo
Alfred Electronics51photo
Alker, Pauline Lo70photo
Allen, Rebecca122photoDr.
Amber Glow Eldercare Center81photo
Arthur, Chester24sketchUS President; signed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882
Asia American Multi Technology Association70photo
Asian American Cancer Support Network82photo
Asian Americans for Community Involvement104photo
Asian Law Alliance72photo
Asian Liver Center82photo
Asian Pacific American Leadership Institute79, 116photo
Asians Americans for Community Involvement68photo
Au, Kasey82photo
Au, Will82photo
Bakken, May82photoAACSN cofounder
Bay Area Chrysanthemum Growers Association67photo
Bayside Cannery35photo
Beckmann, Mary109photowife of Albert Yu
Berryessa Chinese School91photo
Blomquist, Steve107photoson-in-law of Kansen Chu
Bok, Ah12photomeaning “old uncle”
Breyfogle, Charles W.19photoMayor
Brooks, Sally West110photonational board chair
Bui, Kathy72photo
Burdick, Judy124photo
Bush, George H. W.105photoUS Pres.
Butt, Fidelia82photoAACSN cofounder
Chan, Abbey82photo
Chan, Anita36, 38, 104photo
Chan, Chi-Foon126photopresident and chief executive officer of Synopsys
Chan, Dorothy88photo
Chan, Edward28photo
Chan, Evelyn54photowife of James Chan
Chan, Fanny31photo
Chan, Fiona82photo
Chan, G.61photo
Chan, Gordon36, 38, 104photoSon of Theodore S. Chan
Chan, James31, 40, 54, 64photo
Chan, Jane80photo
Chan, Joyce84photo
Chan, Laura52photo
Chan, Milton52photo
Chan, Rebecca126photowife of Chi-Foon Chan; accomplished classical pianist
Chan, Robert54photoDr.; son of James Chan
Chan, Shee30photowife of Sai Tai Young
Chan, Sheryl96photo
Chan, Shu-Park105photoProf.; former dean of engineering at the University of Santa Clara
Chan, Theodore S.36photoowner of T. S. Chan Nursery
Chan, Wayland84photo
Chan, Wing31, 40photo
Chang, Barry60, 78photo
Chang, Christopher76photoexecutive director
Chang, Cynthia77, 116photo
Chang, Gilbert91photo
Chang, James113photoJudge
Chang, Michael70, 78, 79, 115photo
Chang, Milton84photo
Chase, Don61photo
Chau, Sandy69, 78photo
CHCP Museum Enhancement75photo
Chef Chu’s of Los Altos50photo
Chen, Amy82photo
Chen, Chia-Huei77photo
Chen, Jean77photo
Chen, Maria69, 76photo
Chen, Wu-Fu105photo
Cheng, Emily114photoHong Kong native and graduate of UC Berkeley, served as mayor of Los Altos Hills
Cheng, Pax96photo
Cheng, Yolanda50photoproprietor of Chef Chu’s of Los Altos
Chew, Charles35photo
Chew, Ethel65photo
Chew, Francis35photo
Chew, Helen124photo
Chew, Henry35photo
Chew, Larry42, 48, 119, 124photo
Chew, Lawrence42, 119photoSr.
Chew, Lee Gum Ching35photo
Chew, Leland48photo
Chew, Lonnie35photo
Chew, Mary Lee88photo
Chew, Pon37photo
Chew, Taidy35photo
Chew, Thomas Foon35photoson of Yen Chew
Chew, Wai Ying37photo
Chew, Yen35photofather of Thomas Foon Chew
Chi Am Circle66photoan Asian American women’s group
Chi, K. L.61photo
Chiang, Frank77photo
Chin, Allan74photoNg Shing Gung museum chairperson
Chin, George92photo
Chin, Mildred74photoNg Shing Gung museum chairperson
Chinese American Citizens League of Santa Clara County64, 92photo
Chinese American Citizens
Alliance		72photo
Chinese American Real Estate Association of Silicon Valley71photo
Chinese American Women Business League76photo
Chinese American Women’s Club65photo
Chinese Community Center of the Peninsula63photofounded in Palo Alto in 1968
Chinese Historical and Cultural Project73photo
Chinese Methodist Episcopal Church25photoon Fifth and Jackson Streets
Chinese Performing Artists of America121photo
Chinese Seniors Club97photo
Chinese Six Companies24photorepresenting the Chinese in America, was a benevolent society that settled disputes between Chinese and fought legal battles against discrimination
Ching Nin Guangdong Cantonese Opera Group100photo
Chinn, Eugene25photo
Chi-U Teen Club92photo
Chodorow, Leah124photo
Chou, Isabel94photo
Chow, Alvin127photo
Chow, Amy120photo
Chow, Billy90photoprincipal
Chow, Christopher55photoDr.
Chow, Dorothy86photo
Chow, Sam28photo
Chow, Stephen28photo
Chow, Susanne49photo
Choy, Gerimae45photodaughter of Lee Yee Choy
Choy, Jerry Lee45photoson of Lee Yee Choy
Choy, Lee Yee45photo
Choy, Phillip50photoarchitect and historian
Chu, Anna107photodaugher of Kansen Chu
Chu, Daisy107photowife of Kansen Chu
Chu, Dean115photoSunnyvale mayor
Chu, Judy113photo
Chu, K. T.61photo
Chu, Kansen78, 107photo
Chu, Lawrence50photoproprietor of Chef Chu’s of Los Altos
Chu, Mike50photoproprietor of Chef Chu’s of Los Altos
Chu, Norman50photoproprietor of Chef Chu’s of Los Altos
Chu, Ruth50photoproprietor of Chef Chu’s of Los Altos
Chu, Steven109photoprofessor of Stanford University’s Applied Physics Department
Chu, Tzu-I Isabel110photoAmerican Cancer Society’s Chinese Unit founding member
Chu, Walt107photoson of Kansen Chu
Chuck, Frank61, 102photo
Chung, Yii-Der70photoDr.
Clark, Birge40photoarchitect
Clark, Ray55photo
Corporate Asian American Employee Network84photo
Cross Cultural Community Service Center76photo
Crown Supermarket46photo
Cruz, Jennifer Chu119photo
Da Jui25photo
Dair, William87photopresident of Hop Sing Tong
Dair, Willis87photo
Davies, Louise M.124photo
Deukmejian, George113photoGov.
Dick’s Supermarket44photo
Dimension Performing Arts69photo
Ding, Howard67photo
Ding, Mae118photo
Doi, Janice72photo
Don, Jim47photoson of Wing Don
Don, Mitzi47, 118photo
Don, Wing47photo
Dong, Bock55photo
Dreyfus, Milton61photo
Duck, Bill29photo
Duck, Bobo29photo
Duck, George29photo
Duck, Lil29photo
Duck, Mary Baby29photo
Duck, Shang Kwan29photo
Duck, Young Quong28, 29, 30photo
Dupont Gai17
Eng, Roger71, 115photoDr.
Eng, Wendy126photo
Eng, Weylin112photoDr.
Fairmont San Jose11photoone of San Jose’s finest and largest hotels
Fehley, John59photo
First Market Street Chinatown10mapThe first Market Street Chinatown (1866-1870) burned in a mysterious fire
Fischella, Russ125photo
Foh, Lau Geen100photo
Fond, Wilson49photo
Fong, Art56, 119photo
Fong, Bernadine Chuck61, 70, 102, 112photo
Fong, Carol98photo
Fong, Charlen98photoCHCP board member and awards chairperson
Fong, Dennis77, 126photo
Fong, Helen96photo
Fong, Ken112photoDr.; UC Berkeley School of Optometry dean
Fong, Kenneth107photo
Fong, Kevin119photoSon of Art Fong
Fong, Louise67photo
Fong, Matt75photoCalifornia stare treasurer
Fong, Michael119photoGrandson of Art Fong
Fong, Pamela107, 112photo
Fong, Paul39, 68, 70photo
Fong, Pauline49photo
Fong, Ruby66photo
Fong, Ruth96photo
Fong, Ted64photo
Fook, Ah17
Fook, Ng10map
Foon Hay Chinese Seniors Golf Club80photo
Foothill Community College51photoin Los Altos
Foy, J. N.61photo
Fung Lum51photorestaurant
Gan, Grace118photo
Gate, James Mark59photoWestinghouse design verification manager at the Sunny ale plant
Gee, Henry63, 72photo
Gee, Tim63photo
Gerbetz, John121photo
Giant Thrift48photoin San Jose was the first large neighborhood pharmacy owned by Chinese Americans
Gibson, Mignon73photoSan Jose History Park executive director
Gong, Rosemary97photoauthor of Good Luck Life
Gong-Guy, Debbie125photo
Gong-Guy, Ernest54photoDr.
Gong-Guy, Lillian54, 65, 73, 98, 106, 125photowife of Ernest Gong-Guy
Gor, Doug82photo
Gordon N. Chan Community Services Center68photo
Grant School27photo
Gray, Paul112photoUC Berkeley vice chancellor
Gresham, Eldon89photo
Gresham, Joseph89photo
Grocers Hall of Fame44photo
Gung, Ng Shing23photothe most splendid structure in Heinlenville
Gwong Lun Hang118photothe Ng store
Hahn, Y. D.61photo
Hall, George89photo
Hall, Marie89photo
Handa, Kevin82photo
Harper’s Weekly18photo
Haslim, Len57photo
Heinlen Company31photo
Heinlen, John10, 19, 22map
Heinlenville10, 22map(1887-1931), on Cleveland Avenue, was the longest-lived Chinatown of San Jose, built by John Heinlen
Heron Ranch12photoon Hostetter Road in San Jose
Heron, Edith12, 18photoa young child knew Ah Bok
Hewlett-Packard Asian Pacific Employees Network84photo
History Park20sketchin San José
Ho, Bennett50photoproprietor of Chef Chu’s of Los Altos
Ho, David52photo
Ho, Maggie50photoproprietor of Chef Chu’s of Los Altos
Ho, Maria52photo
Ho, Millie65, 66photo
Ho, Timothy95photoEagle Scout
Hom, Gloria43photo
Hong Chan Nursery38photo
Hop Sing Tong61photovenerable fraternal organization
Hsia, Evelyn82photo
Hsiao, Kammy90photovice principal
Hsieh, Paul95photoScoutmaster
Hsu, Larry95photoScoutmaster
Huang, Sheng95photo
Hue, Joanne72photo
Huynh, Brittany95photo
Im, Hoon82photo
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers56photo
J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board105photo
James, Ron118photoSan Jose mayor
Jeung, Pat65photo
Jew, Albert51photoson of Ngum You Jew
Jew, Barbara88photo
Jew, Doris42, 88photo
Jew, Hgum You51photolaundry owner
Jew, Joseph63photo
Jew, Ngum You42photo
Jew, Rose Teng42photo
Jom, Ng Kay118photo
Joy Luck Place52photoopened in 1998 on Wolfe Road in the Cupertino Village Shopping Center.
Jue, Walt126photo
Kai, Choy Ting32photoGeneral; top aide to China’s commander-in-chief, Chiang Kai-Shek
Kai-Shek, Chiang32photocommander-in-chief
Kan Johnny89photo
Kan, Helen89photo
Kao, Aileen115photoSaratoga Mayor
Kao, Muriel66photo
Kearny, Clay17
Kee, Bill48photogeneral manager of the National Dollar Store
Kee, Helen86photo
Kee, Jimmy40photo
Kee, Johnny29photo
Kee, Leung40photo
Kee, Lou Sing29, 101photoSgt
Kee, Willie29photo
Kimm, Gregory Ng106photoRev.; first Chinese American pastor of a Catholic church in the Diocese of San Jose and the Santa Chars County.
Knox, Jessie Juliet26photoSan Jose author
Komaki, May49photo
Konda, Richard72photo
Kong, Ronald70photo
Koo, Jim70photo
Kruse, Fred51photo
Kubo, Larry72photo
Kung, Hsing78, 116photo
Kung, Stanley52photo
Kvenvold, Kathleen97photopresident of the History San Jose Volunteer Council
Kwock, Anita98, 106photo
Kwock, Yucaipa96, 123, 127photo
Kwok, Patrick115photoCupertino mayor
Kwong, Alice88photo
Kwong, Carl43photo
Kwong, Dick43photo
Kwong, Donald82photo
Kwong, Emily88photo
Kwong, Judith52photo
Kwong, Maria38photo
Kwong, Sye Wye52photo
Lai, Mabel76, 114photo
Lam Research Company57photoLam Research Company founder
Lam, Brian57photobrother of David Lam
Lam, David57, 70photo
Lam, Godwin57photobrother of David Lam
Lama, Dalai109photo
Las Palmas Chinese Women’s Level Rating 3.0 Tennis Team80photo
Lawther, Jill125photo
Lea, Nicol110photo
Lee, Albert77photo
Lee, Ann88photo
Lee, Bob46, 64, 118photo
Lee, C. H.61photo
Lee, Cecelia58, 108photowife of David Lee
Lee, Chung17, 25
Lee, Dan50, 89photo
Lee, Darwin46photo
Lee, David58, 70photo
Lee, David Sen-Lin108photo
Lee, Dawson46photo
Lee, Dorothy77photo
Lee, Ella96photo
Lee, Elwood46photo
Lee, Fred88photo
Lee, Gary93photoDr.
Lee, George88photo
Lee, Harry88photo
Lee, Helen65, 76photo
Lee, James88photoDr.
Lee, Jeffery77, 126photoDr.
Lee, Joe88photo
Lee, June89photo
Lee, Kathryn97photo
Lee, Lester70photo
Lee, Lillian88photo
Lee, Mabel45photo
Lee, Mary Wong88photo
Lee, Mitzi88photo
Lee, O. D.88photo
Lee, Otto115photoSunnyvale mayor
Lee, Pearl66, 75, 98photo
Lee, Pearl Shew21photo
Lee, Robert57photo
Lee, Robert Q.118photo
Lee, Sam28photo
Lee, Susan Lew97, 126photoSpeakers Series chairperson
Lee, Thomas46photo
Lee, Tiffany93photo
Lee, Trina93photo
Lee, Tuck64photo
Lenzen, Theodore10mapFamous San Jose architect
Leong, Helen124photo
Leong, Herbert46photo
Leong, Samuel45photo
Leung, Aimee65photo
Leung, Hin92photo
Leung, James C. Y.102photoCol.
Leung, Vera102photowife of James C. Y. Leung
Leung, Wallace40photo
Leung, Wally92photo
Levi, Dennis112photo
Lew, Michele68photoexecutive director of Asians Americans for Community Involvement
Li, K. Y.70photoTaiwan chief policy maker
Lick Observatory13photoc. 1876
Lin, Bob105photo
Lin, Kico76photo
Lin, Stephen49photoa Taiwanese American entrepreneur
Liu, David41photo
Liu, Grace77photo
Liu, Jenny77photo
Liu, On41photo
Liu, Rose41photo
Liu, Tally98photoKnight Ridder executive
Live Oak Orchard18photo
Lo, Jimmy96photoChef
Locke, Robert127photofirst police chief of Campbell
Lockheed Missiles and Space60photoin Sunnyvale
Los Gatos Ming Quong Home86photo
Louie, Marisa122photo
Low, Arthur114, 127photoDr.
Low, Evan78, 127photo
Low, Qui Hong41photo
Lowe, Frank89photo
Lowe, Pauline89photo
Lowe, Sylvia89photo
Lu, Julian77photo
Luk, John71photo
Lum, Rodney75photoCHCP president; Dr.
Lum, Sen22map
Lumbard, Barbara20photo
Lytle, John20sketchartist
Mah, Robert108photoDr.; of the NASA Ames Research Center
Mandarin Grill40photoopened in 1926 by Leung Kee
Mao, Larry76photo2006 president
Mar, Edwin64photo
Mar, Frank64photo
Mark, Leo64, 106photo
Mark, Wun100photoproducer and founder of the Cantonese Opera Association-Silicon Valley
Matsuura, Kelly83photo
Matthews, Margie75photoHS] chair
Mew, Ada111photo
Mexican Bracero Program47photo
Ming’s of Palo Alto50photoowner of Ming’s of Palo Alto
Mock, Anita104photo
Mock, Arlene37photoChild of William and Kay Mock
Mock, Henry37photoChild of William and Kay Mock
Mock, Kay37photo
Mock, Lixia37photoChild of William and Kay Mock
Mock, Mary88photo
Mock, May37photoChild of William and Kay Mock
Mock, Stewart37photoChild of William and Kay Mock
Mock, William37, 104photo
Mok, Ruth88photo
Moy, Stan67photo
Mun, Lo Wai100photomanaging director
Nahat, Dennis121photoBallet San Jose artistic/executive director
Nan, Ling70photoDr.
National Dollar Store48photoone of the largest department stores in San Jose
National Reconnaissance Office Pioneer Hall60photo
New Almaden Quicksilver
Mine		15photo
Ng Shing Gung Building20sketch
Ng Shing Gung museum73photo
Ng Shing Gung temple27photo
Ng, Matriarch118photo
Nguyen, Andre60, 78photofounder of Vision New America
Nguyen, Hugh95photo
Organization of Chinese American Women’s Silicon Valley77photo
Organization of Chinese Americans77photo
Organization Resolved to Charitable Events and Developing Sisterhood83photo
Overland Express16
Palo Alto Chinese School91photo
Pang, Eva51photo
Pang, Ken51photo
Pang, Louis63photo
Park, Heng Seung72photo
Pau, Peter52photo
Peninsula Children’s Auxiliary124photo
Plaza Chinatown19photo
Poon, Abraham94photoReverend
Poon, Lillian94photoWife of Abraham Poon
Poon, Serena94photoDaughter of Abraham Poon
Poouy, Gong34photo
Quon, Frances66photo
Quon, Raymond64photo
Quota International110photo
Ranch 9953photoin Cupertino Village
Reed, Chuck75photoSan Jose mayor
Runowicz, Carolyn110photonational board president
Sakamoto, Paul68photo
Sakkestad, George116photo
Sam, Ah15photoknown as “China Sam”
San Jose Chinese Catholic Community94photo
San Jose Christian Alliance Church94photo
San Jose Evening News19photo
San Jose Railroad14photo
San Jose State Teachers College43photo
San Jose Woolen Mills10map
Santa Clara Valley14, 20photowas known as “the Valley of the Heart’s Delight”
Santa Cruz- Monterey Line14photo
Seale Military Academy of Palo Alto42photo
Second Market Street Chinatown10mapalso called the “Plaza Chinatown” (1872-1887)
Seid, Allan68photoDr.; founder of Asians Americans for Community Involvement
Seid, Hubert93photo
Self-Help for the Elderly81photo
Shanen, Charlotte65, 118photo
Shatt, Lee Y.45photo
Shew, George21photoBrother of Lynne Shew
Shew, Lynne21photoSister of George Shew
Shile, Mariana116photoLos Gatos High School Student Board representative
Shin Shin Education Foundation69photo
Shin, Chin10map“Big Jim”, ran a large cannery
So, Bailey52photo
So, Gloria84photo
Soffiotto, Becky Quan96photo
South Bay Historic Chinese American Cemetery Corporation87photo
South Pacific Coast Railroad14photo
St. Claire Hotel49photo
Stanford Area Chinese Club67photo
Stanford’s Chinese Students Club61photo
State Meat Market43photoon 150 East Santa Clara Street in San Jose
Stein, Aaron16
Su, James76photo
Su, Ray-Zhan84photo
Sugihara, Glenn72photo
Sunshine, Fruit and Flowers34photoa book promoting the Santa Clara Valley in 1898
T. S. Chan Nursery36photo
T’aam, Wu61photo
Tam, Terry95photoScoutmaster
Tang, Don60photo
Tang, Kathryn60photoGrandchild of Don Tang
Tang, Kevin60photo
Tang, Lauren60photoGrandchild of Don Tang
Tang, Rose60, 66photo
Tang, Sandra60photo
Tao, Donna77photo
Tao, Gary95photoEagle Scout
Tien, Chang-Lin70photoUC Berkeley chancellor
Ting, Lee84photo
Tom, Arthur71photo
Tom, Midge66photo
Tom, Timothy77photo
Tong, Homer70photo
Tong, Jeff82photo
Toy, Charles36photoson of grower Lum Toy
Toy, James36photoson of grower Lum Toy
Toy, Jane88photo
Toy, Lum36photogrower in Palo Alto
Transcontinental Railroad14photo(1865-1869)
Tsai, Doug82photo
Tsang, David78, 105photo
Tseng, Rose70photo
Tsim, Patrick52photo
Tsim, Teresa52photo
Tu, David59photo
Tu, Norman59photo
Twu, Rosmemarie75photo
Vine Street Chinatown10map(1870-1872), was where residents moved when the Market Street Chinatown burned.
Vu, Andrew68photoboard chairman of Asians Americans for Community Involvement
Wah, Pang Hang100photo
Wan, David88photo
Wan, Willy88photo
Wang, Albert78photo
Wang, Chester58, 105photoBrother of Stanley Wang
Wang, Kris115photoCupertino mayor
Wang, Stanley58, 70photoBrother of Chester Wang
Watanabe, Rick93photo
Way, T. T.49photo
Wei, Belle78photo
Wei, Belle W. Y.60photoDr.; dean of the College of Engineering at San Jose State University
Wellman, Maggie125photo
Wells Fargo16
West Valley Chinese Language School90photo
Why, Barbara66photo
Wilbur, Ray Lyman42photoProfessor of Stanford University
Wing, Ruth67photo
Wing, Steve72photo
Wing’s Market47photoin Campbell
Wong, Adelaide90photo
Wong, Al64photo
Wong, Alvin P.106photoPotentate
Wong, Andrea111photograndmother of Andrea Wong
Wong, Anna Lee88photo
Wong, Betty106photo
Wong, Brenda95photo
Wong, Clifford88photo
Wong, Edward111photo
Wong, Flo Oy111photo
Wong, Gerrye66, 73, 86, 98, 118, 120photo
Wong, Gerrye Kee48photo
Wong, Gilbert77photo
Wong, Guy67photo
Wong, H. C.61photo
Wong, Hank67photo
Wong, Lois86photo
Wong, Mary63photo
Wong, Matthew95photoEagle Scout
Wong, Michael93photoDr.
Wong, Sheong88photo
Wong, Shirley66photo
Wong, Victor64, 65, 104, 118photo
Wong, Wally63photo
Wong, Wilma67photo
Woo, Amy100photo
Woo, Ann121photo
Woo, George84photo
Woo, Wahnita90, 100photo
Woolen Mills Chinatown10, 17map(1887-1902) was one of the two Chinatowns that emerged after the 1887 arson fire
Wu, Joe70photo
Wu, Nancy97photoCSC advisor
Y. K. Fong Nursery39photo
Yang, Jerry127photo
Yao, Yong121photoArtistic Director of CPAA
Yee, Anita77photo
Yee, Bertha65photo
Yee, Dale63photo
Yee, Dick44photoproprietor of Dick’s Supermarket
Yee, Gene44photoDick Yee’s son
Yee, Martin55photoDr.
Yee, Melinda55photo
Yee, Peter55photoDr.; San Jose’s first Chinese American anesthesiologist
Yee, Robert99photo
Yee, Roberta63photo
Yeo, Chris96photoowner of Straits Restaurant
Yep, Doris51photo
Yim, Stanley72photo
Yip, Clifford99photomember of the Chinese Community Center of the Peninsula
Yoke, Lum Kaye118photo
Young, Bill28photo
Young, Charles30photo
Young, Fred39photohusband of Lonnie Young
Young, George “Ming”101photo
Young, Jack32photo
Young, Jan93phototennis director
Young, John C.89photo
Young, Lonnie39photo
Young, Mary89photo
Young, Osla21, 25, 28photo
Young, Richard67photo
Young, Sai Tai30photohusband of Shee Chan
Young, Soong Quong31photo
Young, Wanda39photodaughter of Lonnie Young
Yu, Albert77, 84, 109photo
Yu, Connie Young12, 18, 27, 98, 101, 122photo
Yu, Jennifer120photo
Yu, Jessica125photo
Yu, Kou-ping53photo
Yuan, Betty69photo
Yue, Emily74, 98photo
Yue, N. Y.61photo
Yuen, Lisa120photo
Zane, Jeanette123photo
Zhao, Peter52photo
Zung Sieu Longevity Garden59, 81photo