Other Resources

Capstone Paper: The Frontier of Chinese American Medicine: Document Analysis of the Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum Archives

Howlett B. The Frontier of Chinese American Medicine: Document Analysis of the Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum Archives [student paper]. Portland, OR: Oregon College of Oriental Medicine; 2019.

OCOM faculty member Beth Howlett, who led the partnership between OCOM and the Kam Wah Chung Museum, wrote her DAOM Capstone on the formation of this project. 

Friends of Kam Wah Chung
The Friends of the Kam Wah Chung & Co Museum is a non-profit 501c3 organization run by volunteers whose mission is to provide public access to the historic site.  We are committed to the protection and preservation of the Kam Wah Chung and Company Museum. In addition, we educate and inform future generations about the importance of the Chinese immigrants whose influence and contributions helped define the culture and history of the American West.

Kam Wah Chung Online Archives

Since 2007, the Friends of Kam Wah Chung have been working to permanently archive and digitize the document collection. In January 2023 the archives were made available online. Through Preservica, Kam Wah Chung and Oregon State Parks have uploaded the bulk of the Kam Wah Chung Archives onto a permanent archival network that has multiple redundant servers for long term storage of the archives.

Oregon Experience: Kam Wah Chung

This short PBS / OPB documentary details the history of the Kam Wah Chung & Co store and apothocary.

Oregon Encyclopedia: Kam Wah Chung & Co

This entry includes background information about the formation of the company, and also includes individual encyclopedia entries for Ing "Doc" Hay and Lung On, as well as a general entry about Chinese Americans in Oregon.

OTHER ACADEMIC RESOURCES:

Barlow, Jeffrey G. and Christine Richardson. China Doctor of John Day. Portland, OR, 1979.

Chen, Chia-Lin, Kam Wah Chung Company Papers, John DayOregon. Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1974. 

Chen, Ying-Ju, and Jodi Varon, trans. “The Invisible Men of Gold Mountain.” In Talking on Paper: An Anthology of Oregon Letters and Diaries. Edited by Shannon Applegate and Terrence O’Donnell. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1994.

Micnhimer, Carolyn Frances. Antidotes and Anecdotes : Twenty Five Years at Kam Wah Chung. First ed. 2012. Print.

Sarvis, Will. “Gifted Healer: Ing Hay and the Chinese Medical Tradition in Eastern Oregon, 1888-1948.” Journal of the West 44:3 (Summer 2005).

Yung, Judy, et. al. Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.