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Ruby Chow a pioneer of Chinese-American community died last Wednesday morning. She was a flourishing business woman and a politician as well. She holds the first Chinese restaurant outside of Chinatown.
She has served well for three terms as a politician and she proved that women can do things that they think are limited to men.
Bruce lee’s first break was the film enter the dragon, it is where he excelled as an artist with all of his signature moves in martial arts. Lou Gaul author of the book “The fist that Shook the World” said that Bruce lee was the only man who had introduce a new style of fighting, that they have never seen before.
He became one of the most important people in Time magazine last 1999 and he will also be having a theme park named after him, which will be built by China.
Ken Ugaki, a Japanese-American kept in mind his experiences during Pearl Harbor. He talked about his loss of freedom during that time, but that didn’t hinder him from combating freedom for other people.
A part of his interview was: “do you consider yourself an American?”
“yes.”
“A proud American?”
“A PROUD AMERICAN!”
WHAT
Author Lecture, Book Signing and Dinner
Philip P. Choy
WHEN
Sunday, June 1, 2008
4:30 – 6:30 pm
WHERE
Holiday Villa Restaurant,
7007 S. Land Park Dr. Sacramento, CA
$25 per person.
For more information or reservations
Contact Karun Yee at 591-8181 or
yee911@aol.com
To purchase a book contact Donna Scotti at
CACSbookorder@comcast.net
The book contains Sacramento’s wealthy history and their diversity. It also has included descriptions of over 150 years of Chinese American history in Sacramento as well as their influences in making the city a better place.
Right: Workers install glass in front of a 1900s theater scrim in the museum.
The Wing Luke Asian Museum of Seattle reopens to fanfare on May 31, having been relocated to an early 20th-century building that once offered rooms, meals and social support to Chinese immigrants.
According to the Seattle P-I, the museum’s new “Historic Immersion Tours” will take visitors through restored apartments, a food store, a kitchen and common areas that once teemed with off-duty workers.
“You’ll be able to learn about the pioneers’ stories right in the actual living spaces, so it becomes much more tangible and alive,” says Cassie Chinn, the museum’s deputy director for programming.
For more info on the grand reopening, visit the museum’s official Web site.
1942 students from Seattle will be getting their bachelor’s degree at the University of Washington on Sunday, May 17, 2008. These students are those who have told to leave the university at the time when Japan attacked the Pearl Harbor. They left school because their families had to be imprisoned in government camps for a simple reason that they do look like an “enemy.”
“And to have to leave Seattle with just one suitcase, that was another shock,” said Tama Murotani-Ibana who was just a freshman then. And later on, he was accepted at Guilford College through the help of then UW President Lee Paul by begging his friends that are president of different colleges to accept these students.
Rod Tatsuno, a Japanese American man who lives in Ketchum, was interviewed on to his past experiences. At only one month old he and his parents were moved to imprisonment camp and then later on were released after two years.
“It’s not on my consciousness all the time, but it is back there in my subconscious,” said Tatsuno. Meaning the things that had happened before doesn’t really get out of your mind it’s just that you sometimes do not think about it, but it’s going to be there forevr….
On May 18, the University of Washington will be honoring those Japanese-American students who were obligated to depart on their studies on 1942 during their imprisonment. The ceremony will be entitled “The Long Journey Home: Honoring UW Nikkei Students from 1941-42.”
They are doing this for the students to learn that this should never happen again. The speaker will be Norman Mineta who was a former Secretary of Transportation; he was also imprisoned at that time and later on became a highest ranking Japanese-American politician.
Original members of the Bainbridge Island Japanese American community was said to be dying…
Clarence Moriwaki, head of the committee on the proposal of building a memorial said: “Time is not our friend on this endeavor,”…
They are proposing for memorial at Eagle Harbor, for those Japanese Americans who died at the island. The said memorial will be a part of the Minidoka Internment National Monument in Southern Idaho. The second part of the memorial will be a 276-foot story wall and each foot represents every Japanese American living on Bainbridge Island, the wall will have everyone’s name on it with a short family background.
According to U.S. census date released today, May 1, Asian Americans population increased about 1.9% from 2006 to 2007 in Michigan. They outnumbered other ethnicities in the said state, making the Latinos second with the white and black Americans dropping their numbers.
As reported by freep.com, the number of Asian Americans increased by 4,496 — about 1.9% — from 2006 to 2007, while Latinos grew by 6,993, or 1.7%, census figures show. The white population dropped 0.3% and the black population by 0.4%. Overall, Michigan’s population dropped 0.3% from July 1, 2006, to July 1, 2007, to a shade over 10 million.