Community Organizations. The following are some of the groups involved in political, social, and cultural issues in the Chinese and Asian communities in the greater Boston area:

Asian American Civic Association http://aaca-boston.org/main.php

Asian Community Development Corporation http://www.asiancdc.org/

Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center http://www.bcnc.net/

Chinatown Committee, Philips Brooks House Association http://hcs.harvard.edu/~chtn/

Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Society of New England http://www.ccba-ne.org/

Chinese Progressive Association http://www.cpaboston.org/

Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Association http://www.gbcca.org/

Taiwanese-American Foundation of Boston http://www.geocities.com/taf_boston/TAFB_home.htm

Boston Chinatown online and on the street

Chinatown Banquet http://www.chinatownbanquet.org/. The website for an ambitious and ongoing interdisciplinary public art, education and multimedia project meant to “raise awareness about the history, culture and conditions of Boston Chinatown.” 

The Chinatown Blog http://bostonchinatowngateway.com/ A blog focused on community news, including urban development and safety, as well as first person narratives by community members.

Bostonchinatown.org -- Connecting Chinatown's Connectors http://www.bostonchinatown.org/ A project by faculty and students at Emerson College to document and visually map how people share community information. Click on each link in the map for an individual biography and information on each person as a conduit of news and community resources.

Student Organizations

Most local universities have very active Chinese, Hong Kong and Taiwanese student organizations.  For links to individual groups, consult the site of the Boston Asian Students Alliance (BASA) at http://www.bostonbasa.org/.

Consulates

People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong SAR:  New England residents must obtain visas (for non-PRC nationals), passports (for PRC nationals) and other information from the New York City consulate at http://www.nyconsulate.prchina.org/.

Republic of China (Taiwan):  Visa, passports and general information can be obtained from the Taipei Economic and Culture Office in Boston at http://www.tecoboston.org/.

Local Media

Sinoboston.com  http://www.sinoboston.com/. A local Chinese-language portal with news, yellow pages, chat groups, classified, personals and more.  Some English-language postings as well.

Sampan 舢舨 http://www.sampan.org.  New England’s only bilingual Chinese-English newspaper.

World Journal 世界日報 http://www.worldjournal.com/wjindex.php. This national Chinese-language newspaper maintains a Boston office and a bookstore at 216 Lincoln St.

Boston Chinese News 波十頓新聞, published monthly by Southern Newspapers Group (publisher info available at http://www.scdaily.com/).

Boston Chinese Radio (Cantonese), WJDA 1300 AM, Quincy, Sundays 8-11 PM (program information at http://hometown.aol.com/Kfyau/index.html, and http://www.wjda1300.com/).