People/人物

China Camp State Park is located along the shore of San Pablo Bay. The road through the park offers beautiful views of the waterfront. In fact China Camp was a Chinese shrimp fishing village that flourished here in the 1880s. Nearly 500 people from Canton, China lived in the village, and more than 90% of the shrimp caught by the fishermen was dried in the sun and shipped to China or Chinese communities throughout the United States.

he legendary Sun Yun, who is now known as Cecilia Chiang, was given her English name by a professor while studying at Fu Jen Catholic University in Peiping.

The US Mint announced the establishment of outstanding American women of all races quarters program, which will issue up to five new quarters each year from 2022 to 2025. The first Chinese-American actress in Hollywood Anna May Wong will be minted on a 25-cent coin to be released in 2022.

On April 27, 2021, U.S. President Biden nominated Heidi Shyu, a Chinese-American female engineer, as the U.S. Department of Defense Under Secretary for Research and Engineering. On July 21 of the same year, the U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of President Biden, and Heidi Shuyu was officially appointed as the Under Secretary of Defense. She is also the highest-ranking Asian civilian official in the U.S. Department of Defense.

Jiang Sunyun is known as the Queen of Chinese food in the United States and rightfully so. In the 1960s, she opened the Mandarin, a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco where she launched a culinary excursion of authentic Chinese food famous in the United States.