Dick Evans and Kathy Chin Leong at SFPL Anza Branch Library

Dick Evans and Kathy Chin Leong, authors of San Francisco’s Chinatown, celebrate the book’s 5th anniversary with a presentation and signing at the Anza Branch Library in San Francisco’s Richmond District.

550 37th Avenue. The authors will share new images capturing the neighborhood’s renewed vibrancy and enduring cultural significance. A book signing will follow from 3-3:30p. All proceeds from book sales benefit SF Chinatown businesses affected by COVID-19.

Dick Evans is a San Francisco–based photographer with an interest in documenting the colorful and rapidly changing neighborhoods of the city. He is the author of San Francisco and the Bay Area: The Haight-Ashbury Edition and The Mission.

Kathy Chin Leong is an award-winning journalist who has been published in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Sunset Magazine, and many other newspapers and magazines. As a second-generation ABC (American-born Chinese), she grew up in San Francisco’s Sunset District and spent nearly every weekend in Chinatown visiting her grandmother and helping her mother shop for groceries.