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About Chinese Consolidated Benevolent
Association

In order to distinguish associations from
different regions, there was consensus among the
first oversea Chinese that organizations on the
West Coast shall be known as “hui guan” (會館) or
“tang” (堂) whereas organizations on the East Coast
shall be known as “gong suo” (公所)
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CCBA Mount
Hope Project Update
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CCBA is in a new administration. As a result, the Mt. Hope
Project is also under new management. Rick Wong, current
President of CCBA, has decided to move ahead with the Mt.
Hope Project. First on his agenda is to improve the joss
paper burner.
As
you can see from Fig. 1 and Fig. 2, the original
joss paper burner installed at Mt. Hope is a
basic cylinder with a flat surface on the
bottom, an open front, a porous semi-circular
screen around the back and a covered top.
Many people who go to Mt. Hope
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CCBA Mount
Hope Project

Recently CCBA officers came across a document
which gave perspective to CCBA’s involvement with the
Chinese section of Mt. Hope Cemetery. The document stated
that in the 1930s, CCBA bought a piece of land in the
city-owned Mt. Hope Cemetery to provide a temporary burial
ground for Chinese sojourners whose remains would eventually
be sent home to their final resting place, sometimes
arranged by CCBA with community donations. The practice of
“going home” in death was disrupted by the war in China
against Japanese aggression and later by WWII and the
conflict between the Nationalist and the Communist Parties.
So here they remain, in a foreign land where they call home
in their afterlife.
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Inside CCBA
Member Organizations |
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Crime Watch Program
Chinatown Crime Watch is a CCBA
program established in 2005
under the
administration of
Roman
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Table
Tennis Program
Three nights a week, the CCBA
sponsored Ping Pong Club is in
session
providing
a setting for
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