Here are some photos of recent activities.
Pauley Ballroom
Programs
Right on!
On Saturday, November 2, 2019 in Pauley Ballroom we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of Asian American Studies at UC Berkeley. There were over 500 attendees with guests of honor including Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, Assemblyman Phil Ting and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen.
See Snapshots of the 50th Anniversary Dinner
Wild Geese Sorrow wins recognition!
On Sunday, June 23, 2019 in the Koret Auditorium of the San Francisco Main Library, Wild Geese Sorrow was honored with the 38th Annual Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation. It was noted that “the mixture of elegance and directness in the English translation feels true to the original in a way that is completely convincing—a work of painstaking scholarship and artistic re-creation of intimate histories resonant with current themes of ‘alien’ exclusion.”
See 38th Annual Northern California Book Awards
AAPA Veterans of the 1969 TWLF Strike and Current AAADS Students
On March 29, 2018 at the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) 2018 Conference in San Francisco, I spoke with other Asian American Political Alliance (AAPA) veterans of the 1969 TWLF Strike about our experiences and the approaching 50th anniversary of the founding of Asian American Studies at UC Berkeley. We got to meet some of the current AAADS students too!
See Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley
Kahanamoku Lagoon, Honolulu, HI
At approximately 9:45 a.m. Hawaiʻi Standard Time, on June 17, 2017, legendary voyaging canoe, Hōkūleʻa, sailed into the harbor at Oʻahu’s Magic Island after completing a 42,000-mile open-ocean journey around the world. My family and I attended the Hōkūleʻa Homecoming Celebration that day. The focus of the three year Worldwide Voyage was to care for Island Earth.
Saia Aa Chyun Village (Xiyacun 西桠村), Zhongshan, Guangdong, PRC
In November 2016, I visited for the first time my parents’ ancestral villages in China. Here is our group in front of the house in which my mother was born. We also searched for my father’s former house and were welcomed by the current villagers as visiting Wah Kue or overseas Chinese.
Angel Island Immigration Station Men’s Barracks
I visited and photographed the Chinese wall poems at the National Historic Site on March 27, 2014. This carved poem (shown in part) is one of the most realized with vivid imagery and beautiful calligraphy. It is Poem 23 in Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island.
See Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation