The CCBA was set up to help Chinese people relocate and travel to and from the US, including returning the bodies of the deceased to China. Thus, the CCBA was formed out of the need for the Chinese to have organized social, political, and economic structures. This factor together with increasing anti-Chinese sentiment hastened the need for an empowered Chinese organization in the United States.
Much of the attention often overlooked inherent cultural differences, which ultimately led to misunderstanding by much of the American population.
Since its organization in the 1850s and formal establishment in 1882 in San Francisco's Chinatown, the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA) has received a diverse range of publicity from the American media. The latter wave of Chinese immigration after 1965, who emigrated from a much wider area of China and did not experience overseas the level of hostilities faced by the pioneers, did not join the CCBA, which greatly lessened its influence. The association's clientele were the pioneer Chinese immigrants of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who came mainly from eight districts on the west side of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong (Canton province) in southern China, and their descendants. It is also known by other names, such as Chinese Six Companies ( Chinese: 六大公司) in San Francisco, especially when it began in the 19th century Chong Wa Benevolent Association in Seattle, Washington and United Chinese Society in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association ( CCBA) ( traditional Chinese: 中華會館 simplified Chinese: 中华会馆 pinyin: zhōnghuá huìguǎn Jyutping: zung 1wa 4 wui 6gun 2 in the Western United States, Midwest, and Western Canada 中華公所 (中华公所) zhōnghuá gōngsuǒ ( Jyutping: zung 1wa 4 gung 1so 2) in the East) is a historical Chinese association established in various parts of the United States and Canada with large Chinese communities. Historical umbrella association of Chinese district associations in North America
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