glamour and grace chsa annual gala 2008 program

8/14/2019 *Glamour and Grace* CHSA Annual Gala 2008 *Program*

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CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

ANNUAL GALA


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CHSA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Pal Fong, Pres dent

Conne Yong Y, 1st Vce Presdent

Dog Chan, Esq., 2nd Vce Pres dent

L nda A. Che, Treasrer

Vrg na C. Gee, SecretaryDonald Chan

Cedrc Cheng

Wl lard Chn

Barre Fong

Calv n Fng

Robert Fng

Rssel l Leong

Gal n Lk

Dr. Rodney Lm

Wl l am G. Roop

Alsa Yee

Jerey P. Woo, Esq., Lega l Consel

BOARD EMERITI

Hm Mark La

Phl p P. Choy

FOUNDERS

Thomas W. Chnn

C. H. KwockChngwah Lee

H. K. Wong

Thomas W. S. W, DDS

STAFF

Se Lee, Eect ve Drec tor

Francs Wong, Depty Drector

Jdy H, Commncatons Manager

Anna Narta, PhD, Drec tor o Archves

L ana Koehler, Admns t rat ve Ass s tantLenora Lee, Operat ons Manager

Pam Wong, Programs Coordnator

Char l e Chn, Ar t s t - n -Res dence

CORE CONSULTANTS

ExHIBITION DESIgN

Gordon Chn Des gn

CONTRACT REgISTRARMaren Art Serv ces

DESIgN AND ART DIRECTION

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JOURNAL DESIgN

Sde by Sde Stdos

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE

Chinese America: History & Perspectives

The Journal of the Chinese Historical Societyof America

Col leen Fong, PhD (char ) Hm Mark La Larene W McClan Rthanne LmMcCnn Rssel l Jeng, PhD Rssel l Leong Anna Narta, PhD

SPECIAL gALA THANKS TO Wendy SooneBroder Robert Barde Theresa Brke Dr. Donald Che Jerey Gee Chn LanaKoehler Evan Leong Frankln & Dasy Leong Felca Lowe Rta Mah Charles McClan Larene W McClan Rthanne Lm McCnn Lews Sykes John Ko We Tchen Rchard

& Soph e Tom Lsa Wong Ron Wong

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SATuRDAY SEPTEMBER 20 FOuR SEASONS HOTEL SAN FRANCiSCO

6 PM RECEPTION

No-host CocktalsS lent Act on begns

7 PM DINNER

Greetngs byMiSTRESS OF CEREMONiES

CYNTHiA GOuW

Welcome & AcknowledgementsSuE LEE

CHSA ExECuTiVE DiRECTORand

PAuL FONGCHSA BOARD PRESiDENT

8 PM PROgRAM

CHSAS ViSuAL ANNuAL CELEBRATiON 2008wth mscal score composed by JON JANG

and

THREE HuNDRED YEARS:FROM THE EMPRESS OF CHiNA TO THE PRESENT

TRiBuTE TO PHiLiP CHOY ARCHiTECT OF AMERiCAN HiSTORYMsc composed by JON JANG

Perormed by FRANCiS WONG, saophone, and JON JANG, pano

WORLD PREMiERE OF THE NEW ViDEO

HiM MARK LAi: THE MASTER ARCHiViSTby LOWEDOWN PRODuCTiONS and the CHiNESE HiSTORiCAL SOCiETY OF

AMERiCA

wth remarks by LAuRENE Wu MCCLAiN

MAKiNG CHiNESE AMERiCAN HiSTORY

CONCLuSiON

SuE LEECHSA Eect ve Drector

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CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

ANNUAL GALA


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Jon JangMUsiCiAn/CoMposer

JON JANG has ollowed hs own path o cre-atng msc whch has become two fowerson a stem, a metaphor epressng the symb-otc relatonshp o hs cltral dentty and m-scal aesthetcs as an Amercan born Chnese.For two decades, Jangs works chroncle andbrng to le the Chnese mmgraton eper-ence n the unted States.

Works nclde Cinese American Sym-pony commssoned by the SacramentoPhlharmonc Orchestra and Oakland EastBay Symphony, Unbound Cinatown ATribute to Alice Fong Yu; Paper Son, PaperSongs; Island: te Immigrant Suite No. 2 orthe Kronos Qartet and Cantonese Opera

snger and the score or the dramatc ad-aptaton o Mane Hong Kngstons TeWomen Warrior. in Aprl 2004 at the Banl-ees Blees Festval n Pars, Jon and JamesNewton composed and perormed WenSorrow Turns to Joy a Musical Tribute toPaul Robeson to commemorate the annversary o the World Peace Conerence n 1949. CineseAmerican Sympony whch pays trbte to the Chnese who blt the rst transcontnental ralroadn the unted States and s dedcated to Phlp P. Choy gave ts Bay Area premere at the ParamontTheatre n Oakland on Febrary 22, 2008.

Jangs ensembles have tored n Erope, Canada, Chna, Soth Arca (1994) and the unted States. in 2001,Jon perormed on pano wth Ma Roach n Zrch, Berln, Mlan, and the Royal Festval Hall n London.

FRANCIS WONGMUsiCiAn

Few mscans are as accomplshed as FRANCiS WONG, con-sdered one o the great saophonsts o hs generaton by thelate jazz crtc Phl Elwood. A prolc recordng artst, Wong seatred on more than orty ttles as a leader and sdeman. Forover two decades he has perormed hs nnovatve brand o AsanAmercan jazz/creatve msc or adences n North Amerca,Asa, and Erope wth sch lmnares as Jon Jang, Tats Aok,Genny Lm, Wllam Roper, Bobby Bradord, John Tchca, James

Newton, Joseph Jarman, Don Moye and the late Glenn Horch.Bt to smply call the Bay Area natve a mscan wold be tognore hs poneerng leadershp n commntes throghot North-ern Calorna. Wongs magnatve career straddles roles as var-ed as perormng artst, yoth mentor, composer, artstc drector,commnty actvst, non-prot organzaton manager, consltant,msc prodcer, and academc lectrer.


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ExCERPTS FROMLONG ROAD HOME:THE CREATiON OF THE CHiNESEAMERiCAN SYMPHONYBY JON JANG

A preview rom Chnese Amerca: Hstory & Per-

spectves The Jornal o the Chnese HstorcalSocety o Amerca, 2009 special edition

Te Cinese American Sympony, whch paystrbte to the Chnese who blt the rst transcont-nental ralroad n unted States, s also dedcatedto Phlp Choy, a longtme vsonary leader andhstoran. Drng the 1950s, Chnese Amercanswere vctmzed by the era o McCarthysm. itwas taboo to tter a word abot Chnese Amer-ca or Chna. Despte the realtes o both racsmand ant-commnsm, Phlp Choy and others ladthe early tracks o Chnese Amercan hstory. Jstlke the Chnese workers o the Central Paccralroad who were ahead o the irsh Amercanworkers o the unon Pacc n the race to bldthe ralroad, Phlp Choy was ahead o hs tmebeore the term Asan Amercan was nvented.Where dd the brth o the dea o the CineseAmerican Symponybegn and how does PhlpChoy t n all o ths?

WHO BuiLT THE RAiLROAD?

The artcle, Gold Spke rtes snb Chnese ralworkers, by Ken Wong and pblshed by East/Weston May 14, 1969 descrbed then-CHSAPresdent Phlp Choys ndgnaton o the snb-bng o the Chnese:

The man speaker, Federal TransportatonSecretary John A. Volpe asked, Who elsebt Amercans cold drll ten tnnels nmontans 30 eet deep n snow? Whoelse bt Amercans cold chsel throghmles o sold grante? Who else bt Amer-cans cold have lad ten mles o track n

12 hors?The rony o Volpes speech was that theseAmercans were n act, oregn-born Ch-nese who wold be barred or years rombecomng ctzens.

Phlp Choy told the adence o poltcansncldng or u.S. Senators, seven Con-gressmen, and hstorcal socety bs, thatmany o the hstorcal acts presented atthe program were alse, dstorted and nac-crate. A whte spremacy atttde persstsand prevents many rom recognzng the va-ldty o the Chnese role n the constrctono the transcontnental ralroad.

Readng ths artcle, i became angry, bt prod thatuncle Phl took a strong stand and spoke ot. in-stead o gong ballstc, i channeled my anger ntosomethng postve and creatve.

LAYiNG DOWN THE FiRST TRACK OFThE ChINESE AMERICAN SYMPhONY

As a composer, i sed Volpes eclson o the

contrbtons o Chnese laborers n hs speechto add another layer to the meanng o theCinese American Sympony. The work openswth the sond o a percsson nstrmentcalled the anvl representng the golden spke.Bt when the anvl s strck, one cannot deter-mne the racal dentty. is t an irsh Amercanworker? is t a Chnese worker? Ths placesthe responsblty on the lstener to make therchoce. When we hear the Danny Boy reer-ence perormed on the pennywhstle early nthe symphony, we can mmedately make theirsh connecton. Bt even today, the Chnese

Amercans have no anthem lke Danny Boy,whch has been consdered the nocal irshAmercan anthem.

Excerpts rom Jon Jangs ortcomingarticle in a special volume or 2009, onte ortiet anniversary o a wealt oactivism in te San Francisco Bay Areaand beyond.

Chnese Amerca: Hstory & Perspectves The Jornal o the Chnese Hstorcal

Socety o Amerca is sougt by readers,researcers, and libraries trougout tenation and te world. A complimentarycopy is one beneft o becoming a membero ChSA.


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Philip P. Choy

PHiLiP P. CHOY was born and rased n San Francsco Chnatown. A retred archtect, Choy s arenowned athorty on Calorna and Chnese Amercan hstory and hstorcal stes. He has served

on the San Francsco Landmarks Board, the San Francsco Msem and Hstorcal Socety AdvsoryCommttee, and the Calorna State Hstorcal Resorces Commsson.

When the Angel island immgraton Statontoday a msemwas slated or demolton, heserved on the Chnese Cove Hstorcal AdvsoryCommttee to develop the preservaton o the hs-torc ste and the poetry-nscrbed walls o the de-tenton barracks. in 1993 he prepared the casereport that placed the Staton on the NatonalRegstry o Hstorc Places.

Wth Hm Mark La and Thomas W. Chnn, he

co-edted A history o te Cinese in Calior-niaA Syllabus (San Francsco: Chnese Hstor-cal Socety o Amerca, 1969), a reerence workbased on ther dentcaton and analyss o awde range o hstorc docments, and whchwas prepared n response to poplar and nstt-tonal demand or accrate hstorcal normaton.

Phlp P. Choy and Hm Mark La then co-taghtthe natons rst college-level corse n ChneseAmercan hstory.

He has created or conslted on nmeros hstor-cal stdes, pblcatons, travelng and permanentehbts, and meda projects. Wth Hm Mark La,Choy researched and prodced Outlines: historyo te Cinese in America (rst edton 1971);Jour-neys Made...Journeys to Come: A Pictorial history

o te Cinese in America (2001), and, as a KRONs-part televson seres, the early masterworkdocmentary, Gam Saan haak Te Cinese oAmerica. Hs most recent book s Canton Footprints:Sacramentos Cinese Legacy(2007). Ths evenngpremeres the new edton o hs semnal stdy, TeArcitecture o San Francisco Cinatown (2008).


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Him Mark Laithe MAster ArChivist

Proclamed by Te Cronicle o higer Educa-tion as the Scholar who legtmzed the stdyo Chnese Amerca, HiM MARK LAi has beenat the core o many commnty nstttons aswell as a pvotal gre or the Chnese Hstor-cal Socety o Amerca (CHSA). CHSA s prodto annonce an pcomng project abot HmMark Las scholarshp and determnaton to re-cord and celebrate the lves o the descendantso Chnese mmgrants to Amerca.

Born n San Francsco n 1925 to mmgrantparents, Hm Mark Las tralblazng accomplsh-ments are many and vared. in 1969 wth PhlChoy he team-taght the rst college-level corsen the unted States on Chnese Amercan hs-

tory at San Francsco State College (now SanFrancsco State unversty), beore movng on toteach the rst corse at the unversty o Calor-na, Berkeley. He has wrtten books and essayson Chnese Amercan hstory and compled twobblographes on Chnese langage materalson the Chnese n Amerca. Major works n-clde: Island: Poetry and history o Cinese Im-migrants on Angel Island, 19101940(coathorwth Genny Lm and Jdy Yng; San Francsco:HOC DOi, 1980); Cong huaqiao dao huaren[From Overseas Cinese to Cinese American](n Chnese; Hong Kong, 1992), Becoming Ci-

nese American: A history o Communities andInstitutions (Walnt Creek, CA: Altamra Press,2004); Cinese American Voices rom te GoldRus to te Present(coathor wth Jdy Yng andGordon H. Chang, Berkeley: unversty o Cal-orna Press, 2006), as well as artcles on the hs-tory and socety o Chnese n the unted Statesn harvard Encyclopedia o American EtnicGroups (Cambrdge, 1980) and Te Encyclope-dia o Cinese Overseas (Sngapore, 1998). Hehas conslted on the specal collectons o andn 2000 made a major donaton o hs researchles to the Ethnc Stdes Lbrary o uC Berkeley.He has served as an adjnct proessor o Asan

Amercan Stdes at San Francsco State unver-sty and past presdent o the Chnese HstorcalSocety o Amerca. An ntegral part o the Edto-ral Commttee o the Socetys jornal snce tsncepton n 1987, Hm Mark La also crrentlyhas mltple books n prep and n press.

HmMarkLa.org

2009 wll debt the rst phase o HmMarkLa.org

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iN SEARCH OF ROOTS

Detals abot the ondng o the in Search oRoots program, whch gdes yong ChneseAmercans wth ancestral roots n Chnas Pearl Rv-er Delta regon to research ther amly hstory anddscover and travel to ther ancestral vllage

Onlne edtons o Hm Mark Las ever-evolvng &pdated manscrpt reerence materals developedor the in Search o Roots program, and lnks tocrrent program actvtes.

Throgh ths project, the Chnese Hstorcal Socetyo Amerca ams to brng awareness and nder-standng o the depth o Hm Mark Las contrb-tons to Chnese Amercan hstory and create annterace or people worldwde to be able to ac-cess, learn rom, and work wth Hm Mark Lasgrondbreakng scholarshp.

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LaureneWu McClain

LAuRENE Wu MCCLAiN s a hstory proessorat Cty College o San Francsco and a practc-ng attorney. She s the co-athor, wth Charles

J. McClan, o The Chnese Contrbton to theDevelopment o Amercan Law n Entry Denied:Exclusion and te Cinese Community in America,l882-l943, and co-edtor o Caliornia Legal historyManuscripts n the Hntngton Lbrary. She edtedBreakng Racal Barrers: Wo Kee CompanyACollaboraton Between a Chnese immgrant andWhte Amercan n Nneteenth-Centry Amercaand A Chnese Amercan Womans Plght drngthe Cltral Revolton by Wen Zhengde or the2005 edton o Cinese America: history & Per-spectivesTe Journal o te Cinese historical

Society o America, and athored From Vctmsto Vctors: A Chnese Contrbton to AmercanLawYck Wo verss Hopkns or the 2003 ed-ton. Daghter o Chnese Hstorcal Socety oAmerca co-onder Thomas W. S. W, her recent contrbtons to CHSA nclde years o commttedservce on the Edtoral Commttee o Cinese America: history & Perspectives. Her work has beenpblshed both n Chna and the unted States.

Felicia Lowe

FELiCiA LOWE s an award wnnng ndependenttelevson prodcer, drector, and wrter wth morethan 30 years o prodcton eperence. himMark Lai Te Master Arcivist s Lowes secondcollaboraton wth the Chnese Hstorcal Socetyo Amerca. Cinatown YWCA s ehbted reg-larly n the Msem. Crrently n post prodctonor Cinese Couplet, a lm abot her relatonshpto her mother told throgh her mothers s names,Lowe receved an Emmy or Best Cltral Doc-mentary or Neigboroods: Te hidden Citieso San Francisco Cinatown. The lvely hor-long pece on the hstory o San Francscos oldest negh-borhood has been broadcast nmeros tmes on PBS. Carved in Silence, docmentng the eperences

o Chnese mmgrants detaned at Angel island immgraton Staton and Cina: Land o My Fater, apersonal jorney to meet her paternal grandmother n Chna or the rst tme, have also been broadcaston PBS and abroad. Lowes nnovatve works are sed etensvely n classrooms across the contry andhave been shown n msems and lm estvals. Lowe has taght lm prodcton and scrptwrtng atSan Francsco State unversty and Stanord unversty. A descendent o Angel island detanees, Lowehas served on the board o the Angel island immgraton Staton Fondaton, whch s dedcated topreservng the hstory and ste o ths Natonal Hstorc Landmark.

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CALiFORNiAThrogh a nqe collecton o artacts, mages,docments, and personal stores, Te Cineseo Caliornia eplores the comple hstory andnqe challenges Chnese Amercans aced nthe ght or cvl rghts. As legslaton drectedat people o Chnese descent removed theconstttonal garantee o eqal protectonnder the law, dscrmnaton and volentattacks ntensed, and Chnese Calornanshad to ght or basc hman rghts.

A rst-ever collaboraton o the Bancrot

Lbrary, Calorna Hstorcal Socety, andChnese Hstorcal Socety o Amerca.

FEBRuARY 7-AuGuST 30, 2008At the CALiFORNiA HiSTORiCAL SOCiETY678 MiSSiON STREET, SAN FRANCiSCO

iT WAS GREAT BECAuSE OF YOu!

Hstorc photos (clockwse rom pper let): [Streetscene wth three men] Calorna Hstorcal Socety Collecton, FN-32814;

[Adavt n re Cheng Hng Fon, mnor son o natve-born San Francscan Cheng Ah Yo], 1908, rom Papers relatng to

Chnese n Calorna, 1894-1926, BANC MSS C-R 153c, The Bancrot Lbrary, unversty o Calorna, Berkeley; [Marchng

wth fags o u.S. and KMT], Chnese Hstorcal Socety o Amerca, Cortesy Hng Dear. (Ttle mage: Gordon Chn Desgn)

THANK YOu also to the CHSA Advsory Commttee: Phlp P. Choy, Colleen Fong, Erka Gee,

Hm Mark La, Pal and Emma Woo Loe, Lng-ch Wang, Conne Yong Y, Jdy Yng;Chnese o Calorna Cratoral Team: Anna Narta (CHSA, Lead Crator), Theresa Salazar(Bancrot Lbrary), and Mary Morgant (CHS); Translators: Hm Mark La, Danan L, DannyLoong; Regstrar: Maren Art Servces; Ehbton Desgn: Gordon Chn Desgn

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