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Relocation, not Dislocation: Organizational Continuity across Houston’s Chinatowns

By Houston History Magazine on December 1, 2025 in Business and Industry, Communities, Houstonians, Preservation, Race & Ethnicity

By Daniel Killian The On Leong Merchants Association formed in 1893 as a national mutual aid society for Chinese men. The Houston chapter filed with the Texas Secretary of State in 1944, although it existed prior to that time. Photo courtesy of the Houston History Research Center, Houston Public Library, MSS-1248-0404. Today, when Houstonians refer […]

An American Chinese in Houston

By Houston History Magazine on October 28, 2015 in Communities, Houstonians, Military and War, Other, Politics, Race & Ethnicity, Religion

E. K. T. Chen spent half his life a Texan and died a patriot in Washington, DC, on October 16, 1957, while preventing Chinese internment during the Korean War. This is the story of the extraordinary things accomplished by this ordinary son of Chinese immigrants that benefited all Americans, and my efforts to continue his […]

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