Past Event
Saturday, January 7, 2017, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Shellfish for the Celestial Empire
541-B Second Avenue, San Diego, 92101
Cost: $5
Join the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum for a lecture by author Todd Braje. His new book sheds light on a group of enterprising Chinese immigrants who recognized the untapped resources along the coast of California. It was the Chinese immigrants who realized the fortune to be made in fishing, processing, and exporting the abundant intertidal black abalone of Southern and Baja California.
Dr. Braje is an associate professor of anthropology at San Diego State University. His research centers on the archaeology of maritime societies.