Archive for the ‘Chinese-Americans’ Category
Chinese New Year Festival 2013, February 16-17 Los Angeles Chinatown
Monday, January 28th, 2013
Chinese New Year Festival, Feb 16-17 Los Angeles ChinatownAsian-Americans Speak Out Against Racist, Offensive Google Apps
Friday, December 28th, 2012
(CNN/In America) The maker of a Google App thinks its funny to make oneself look Asian by changing the shape of ones eyes and wearing a Fu Manchu mustache and rice paddy hat–another app “Make Me Indian” makes one appear like a native American with brown skin, war paint and a feather headband.
Created by Kimbery Deiss on Google play store, these apps overlay dated and racist stereotypes onto ones photo.
Tell Google Play To Take Down The Apps Bu Signing The Petition
More here from Change.org
H/T: Xiao-Mei
74th Annual Moon Festival L.A. Chinatown
Thursday, September 20th, 2012
Los Angeles Chinatown Summer Nights 11 August
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012
Chinese Historical Society San Francisco Hosting Book Event: “Forbidden Citizens”
Monday, July 23rd, 2012
(Chinese Historical Society of America)
Following passage last year of Senate Res 201 expressing regret for the Chinese Exclusion Act Covington & Burling, LLP Martin Gold, penned Forbidden Citizens: Chinese Exclusion and the U.S. Congress: A Legislative History a book, that for the first time traces the timeline and background of those laws.
Acting in a pro-bono capacity on behalf of the Chinese-American Community, Covington helped to secure adoption of Senate Res 201
In “Forbidden Citizens” Mr Gold, documents the legislative debates and actual texts of the 9 exclusion measures, quoting both supporters and opponents of the bill in full detail.
Chinese Historical Society of America is pleased to host author and attorney Martin Gold at the Chinese Historical Society Museum, 965 Clay Street, San Francisco on Tuesday, 24 July, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Frank Wu, Dean of UC Hastings College of Law in San Francisco will also join Mr Gold, in a discussion about “Forbidden Citizens” and the current legislative developments seeking an apology for the 1882 Chinese Exclusion laws.
More here from Chinese Historical Society of America
Los Angeles Chinatown Summer Nights
Thursday, July 12th, 2012
For more information: L.A. Chinatown
Chinese-American Recalls WW II POW Past
Monday, May 28th, 2012
Every Day is a Holiday Documentary
(VOA) Looking at him today, few would guess that Paul Loong at age 88 has a larger than life story, even his daughter Theresa Loong a filmmaker was taken by surprise when she discovered her father’s diary from his time in a Japanese Prisoner of War camp during WW II
Theresa Loong chronicles her father’s story in the documentary Every Day Is a Holiday which was released to coincide with Memorial Day, a time when Americans Honor those who have served in the military.
Japan entered WW II in December, 1941 attacking British controlled Malaya and Singapore almost at the same time as Pearl Harbor.
Paul Loong a young Malaysian was fighting with the British when they surrendered the Malaya Peninsula–Loong and thousands of others were shipped off to Japan, where they did hard labor as prisoners of war.
Life was brutal in the 3 years Loong spent as a POW–one out of every five prisoners died in the first year.
“I think they thought they were going to win the war…that they were not going to answer for war crimes,” said Loong adding, “the POW’s did hard labor from dawn to dusk and were beaten daily–with a stick, with rifle butts with whatever they had handy.”
Loong began to keep the diary his daughter would discover decades later, in it he wrote that id he made it out alive, “Everyday will be a holiday.”
Rest here Chinese-American Recalls POW Past –VOA
Museum of Chinese in America New Exhibition “America Through a Chinese Lens”
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
Cadillac’s For Sale West Hollywood
Matrimonio Civil –Manchester & LaCienega –Los Angeles
An Xiao –Images Courtesy of Museum of Chinese in America
Museum of Chinese in America is pleased to announce their upcoming exhibition America Through a Chinese Lens April 26–September 10 featuring photographs and projects by contemporary Chinese and Chinese-American artists, documentary photographers and non-professionals, each portraying ways Chinese have used a camera to see this country, its beauty, contradictions and reality.
For more information: Museum of Chinese in America