To honor the significant contributions of Asian American scholars, officials from the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) organized a roundtable gathering in White House on March 4, 2024. This event brought together distinguished Asian American scholars, engineers, and leaders affiliated with the Asian American Scholar Forum (AASF) to address the pressing issues and challenges impacting their community.
In the wake of George Floyd’s killing and a surge in anti-Asian hate crimes amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Antioch takes the lead as the first city to issue a formal apology. Mayor Lamar Thorpe, who led the initiative, expressed, “Watching the news was agonizing, and I couldn’t help but feel that merely expressing solidarity with different groups isn’t sufficient.” He emphasized the need for tangible action alongside words. [3]
Absolutely.
It’s crucial that Asian Americans take concrete actions to ensure that any recurrence of discriminatory acts against our community is prevented for future generations.
在乔治·弗洛伊德之死和COVID-19大流行期间反亚裔仇恨犯罪激增的背景下，安提奥克成为第一个发布对华裔正式道歉的城市。领导该倡议的市长拉马·索普表示：“看新闻令人痛苦，我不禁感到仅仅对不同群体表达团结、互助是不够的。”他强调了需要在言辞之外采取切实行动的必要性。
绝对的。
对于亚裔美国人来说，采取具体行动确保未来世代不再发生针对我们社区的歧视行为至关重要的。
Edith Maude Eaton, whose pseudonym is Sui Sin Far (Cantonese transliteration of Narcissus), was a Chinese-English biracial female writer. Sui Sin Far’s career included the publication of numerous short stories, countless pieces of journalism, and one book. She may have been the earliest writer of American fiction to have Chinese ancestry.
Thomas Foon Chew (赵灿垣) was born in Longkou, Guangdong (龙口, 广东) in1889. His father Sai Yen Chew (赵世贤) brought him and his wife to California when he was 8-year-old in 1897 during the period of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 through an expensive work visa specifically designated for Chinese merchants.
Over the next 34 years, the Chew family established three canneries in CA. At its zenith the Bayside Canning Company managed by Thomas Foon Chew was the 3rd largest cannery in the United States employed thousands of cannery workers.[
赵灿垣（Thomas Foon Chew）1889年出生于广东龙口。在1882年《排华法案》期间，父亲赵世贤（Sai Yen Chew）于1897年他8岁时，通过专门为中国商人提供的昂贵工作签证，将他和他的妻子带到了美国加利福尼亚州。 在接下来的 34 年里 赵氏家族在加州建立了三家罐头厂。在鼎盛时期，由 赵灿垣管理的Bayside Canning Company 成为美国第三大罐头厂，拥有数千名工人。
From the recorded history of December 4, 1785, when three Chinese sailors arrived in the port of Baltimore, Maryland, on the ship Pallas[1], to the 19th-century California Gold Rush that attracted a large number of Chinese laborers to San Francisco, to the massive influx of Chinese workers needed for the construction of the transcontinental railroad across North America, to the present-day population of approximately 5 million Chinese Americans, California, as the place with the largest population of Chinese descent, has witnessed numerous influential civil rights movements throughout its immigration history of over two centuries.
This article focuses on a retrospective of the major Asian American civil rights movements that took place in California from 2012 to 2022.
从有记录的1785 年12月4日三名中国海员随帕拉斯号船(Pallas)抵达美国马里兰州巴尔的摩(Baltimore, Maryland)港开始 ，到十九世纪美国加州旧金山淘金潮吸引了大批华人劳工前往，到修建横贯北美大陆的太平洋铁路所需的大批华工，到今天约500万人口的美国华人，在两百多年的移民史中，尽管每一次都存在不同的背景和缘由，但加州作为华裔人口最多的地方，掀起过很多影响力不菲的民权运动，本文着重回顾2012 年至 2022 年间发生在加州的亚裔大型民权运动。
In less than a month, the 95th Academy Awards in 2023 will be held at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood on March 12. There are many well-known actors including Chinese actors and films that are nominated for the ceremony, but the most eye-catching thing is that in the 116-year history of Hollywood in the United States, the first Chinese Hollywood boss will host this grand event.