RADM Alma Lau Grocki and MGen William Chen will recognize WWII veterans living in the Washington DC area — David Leo, Lindy Leo, Luther Chien, Austin Wah, Wah Bong Lee, Elsie Seetoo, and Robert M Lee. They represent over 20,000 Chinese Americans who served in the U.S. armed forces during WWII. Past President Ed Gor […]
WHEN & WHERE Feb 07, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Zoom ABOUT THIS EVENT Join Nancy Yunhwa Rao, professor at Rutgers University, and Eric Hung, Executive Director of Music of Asian America Research Center, to explore Asian American composers of symphonic music since the 1950s. Referencing their own journeys and careers, the presenters will reflect […]
Join us to learn more about the history of Angel Island and some of the immigrants who passed through it in their journey to enter the US. Sunday, February 7, 2021 | 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time Zoom Registration Required: http://bit.ly/3ckNojM
Meet the author, deputy national editor at the New York Times, Jia Lynn Yang, as she discusses her book “One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924 - 1965" with the Chinese American Museum featuring guests Ted Gong, Executive Director of the 1882 Foundation, and immigration lawyer, Gordon Quan. Thursday, January 28, 2021 | 7-8 pm ET (4-5pm PT) Free […]
Accounts on Chinese immigration history during the Exclusion Era have placed great emphasis on the mainstream society’s hostility towards Chinese people. But, how did the Chinese fight back? Where could we find the resilience of Chinese people? Can we still observe these imprints today? As an architectural historian and material culture scholar, Hongyan Yang (Adjunct […]
Our director, Ted Gong, will speak on issues of gentrification and preservation in DC Chinatown at this event hosted by Palisades Village. He will discuss the inspiration for the Foundation's creation, and its reference to the only Federal statute to specifically and totally exclude immigrants of a particular ethnic/cultural heritage--the Chinese. He will address the […]