Chinese Historical Society EWS'N =;1 of Southern California ., 1 Iemord SIr"I. los.-....gele1. CA 90012 "'-'e: 323-m.0856 EmoiI: c:hsscehormoil.COtn OTE website: _ .C:hS..:.org SEPTEM8ER 2011 Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Homer Lea and the Chinese Revolution
Pre..fcmed by Pedro Chan & Roger Yung Wednesday, September 7, 2011· 6:30 p.m. Caste/or Elementory School 840 YafeStreet, Los Angc/es, CA 90012 Fm: partiftJ - ~tft" Yia Collqe Streel
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~ro Chan &: Rogn" YUllg will be IIMIlg .joml pl'e§mUltion of· Sun V.I-sen, lIomcr lea and the Chinese Rc:,-oIulIOn". The: contentS would be Sun VII.sm, tIw: n:\'oIutl<)rlISi ~klOl1 G'.enea Ch".. :sc: (QnImitnw:n1 U) hIS camparan. Ilomcr '-". a suppcII1c1' of the reform's •• !(an, Vu-....ci ,,"'ould .lter his course 10 tiSlS! the re\'oIut,on'$t. Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
SEPTEMBER 2011
Presented by Chuck Quon and Greg Fong The Los Angeles Chinese Drum and Bugle Corps
Wednesday, October 5, 20 11 - 6:30 p.m. Castelar Elemelllary School 840 Yale Street. Los Angeles, CA 90012
The .... A"Fies CIIi_ Drum aM Bu&Ie Corps (LAC}-lMcr b lOO<'JI '" .... - lmp Comprised of A"an American youth bet\\o""" 10 and 21 ynt'I of 1.£(', .... LAC in .... early 1970!. b«_ one of the Iar&e'l Corps OI'JII"iUlions in ( I iS l~, fitldiniL 140 lnemben for comp<:tilion. In oddition to rciLullr Ippelrances., Chinese New V~ .. celebrations _lid oll>or Chinatown .''('J\'', .... LAC proodly I'CJ'I'C'SOnlcd their oomm Llllily with performances and in competition throughout Californil .IId olso grow to ..,hi.,,,, national di$linolion and ....ogni liQII, Mi ss ion Statement Tho Ch inese liistorical Society of Southern C.]ifornia was o r gan i ~ed in November 1975. The purposes of the Society are: I) to brinltolether peop]e with I mut\ll] intorest in the impon&nt hIstory and h, storiCil role of Chinese Historical Society of Southern California Chinese: Ind Ch inese Americans Members and Donors (A ugust 2011) in southern Cillfornia; 2) 10 punuc:, preserve and tommllni_ Gn:gory FOIIg, CFP Ken oft Josie Mar Cite knowledge ofthis h,story; and John Muwell Gault Gordon Oshida 3) to promote the heritage of the Lanline & Me] Huey Jennie Quan Ch,nese and Chinese American Anne Jue Maria Rosalind Saga .. community in suppan of I beneT Sojln Kim James & Syl~ia Soo Hoo appm;iltion of the rich, multicultural Dong Kingman Jr. Will iam Tong 50ciely of the United Stiles. luther Lee, Jr. Edgar Vuen Wong Gail D.lew Tom Woo Chinese Historical Society of Southern California SEPTEMBER 2011 Tim & Annie Siu A-List Suporters of Portraits of Pride By Randy Bloch On December 17, 2004 in The Sius remarked upon the Los Angeles Council Portraits of Pride book series: Chambers, a cadre of Portraits of Pride (PoP) supporters “PoP I was delightful, as we presented the newly-published attended UC Berkeley with book to the assembled council- many people featured in the members. Attending from book. We didn’t know about CHSSC were president many of their great accom- Kenneth L. Chan, Dr. Annie plishments. PoP II made us Chin Siu, and a host of other equally proud to realize the PoP profilees and Society extraordinary feats of our kin. members. The profilees were We applaud the efforts of the majestic with their medallions editors to gather the informa- before the interested spectators tion for these books to in the marbled chamber. What document and disseminate we achieved at City Hall fell Chinese American history little short of a Portraits of for all generations.” Pride public relations coup! The Sius have been loyal The day PoP visited City Hall, supporters of CHSSC over Portraits of Pride volume two decades and examples to us was a twinkle in the eye of all with the longevity of their PoP’s visionary and founder generosity. Their support of Dr. Wing Mar. Yet, a gentle- Portraits of Pride extends to man named L.P. Leung their donation to the initial embraced the vision, stepped to traveling exhibit and their sig- the fore defeating tremendous nificant financial contributions obstacles, and to both volumes of the book. Portraits of Pride II: Chinese-American Legacies Over 8,000 copies of PoP —First 160 Years in America volume one have been distrib- is now a gleaming reality. uted to public, school, and college libraries. With the Drs. Tim and Annie Siu have been tremendous supporters early encouragement of educators, academics and others, of PoP since the outset. Both are profiled in Portraits of we declared the lofty goal of distributing 20,000 copies of Pride volume one in a piece titled Daring to be First and PoP volume two nationwide—projected to cost $500,000. Original. We invite you on as our financial partner in the PoP Free Library Book Program, following the inspiring example of the Siu family. Financial supporters’ names will be promipromi- Annie Siu was the only woman in her class of 60 at nently shown on a special acknowledgments page in all UC San Francisco Dental School in the 1950s. She future printings of PoP II, estimated at 17,000 plus copies. opened her own practice and became one of the first All contributions are fully tax-deductible. Chinese American female orthodontists and a faculty member at USC School of Dentistry. Distinguished The brand new PoP volume features the inspiring stories of anesthesiologist Dr. Tim Siu served the City of Alhambra architect I.M. Pei, architect and monument-builder Maya Lin, on its planning and civil service commissions and rose to ice skating champion Michelle Kwan, Prozac’s inventor chief of staff at many hospitals he served. He successfully Dr. David T. Wong, author Iris Chang, actress Nancy Kwan, battled to cap punitive medical malpractice damage the First Lady of Physics C.S. Wu and many, many others. awards, keeping malpractice insurance affordable for Please order today by calling CHSSC at 323-222-0856 California’s physicians. or use the PoP II order form online at http://www.chssc.org/publications/publications.html. C hinese Historical Society ChineseHistorical of SouthernCalifornia of SEPTEMBER2011 Finding Chinatown CHSSC sponsored a Gallery Talk on Saturday Aug. 6 for " for 6 Aug. Saturday on Talk Gallery a CHSSCsponsored Chinatown CHSSCFinding and photographer by exhibition solo a ," member Sara Jane Boyers at the Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition offers a selection of images from Boyers’ Boyers’ from images of selection a offers exhibition The Monica. Santa in Gallery Krull Craig the at Boyers Jane memberSara journeys to many Chinatowns in the US and Canada over the past decade. Admitting that she is a “shy” photographer, Boyers com- Boyers photographer, “shy” a is she that Admitting decade. past the over Canada USand the in Chinatowns many to journeys mented to the gathering that she has attempted to document Chinatown by focusing on the detail of everyday life. Added commen-Added life. everyday of detail the on focusing by Chinatown document to attempted has she that gathering the to mented tary on the work at the Craig Krull Gallery was provided by John Jung and Sonia Mak. Here are some reflections by John Jung: John by reflections some are Here Mak. Sonia and Jung John by provided was Gallery Krull Craig the at work the on tary “Boyers' work avoids visual cliches, focusing her lens on less stereotyped images, in contrast to the often trite photographs portraying portraying photographs trite often the to contrast in images, stereotyped less on lens her focusing cliches, visual avoids work “Boyers' Chinatown as some type of exotic theme park. To refer to Boyers' images as "photographs" seems inadequate as many of them look look them of many as inadequate seems "photographs" as images Boyers' to refer To park. theme exotic of type some as Chinatown more like museum paintings. Her work transforms ordinary Chinatown scenes and objects with artistic framing, mesmerizing arrays arrays mesmerizing framing, artistic with objects and scenes Chinatown ordinary transforms work Her museumpaintings. like more of contrasting colors, and subtle lighting that guide and capture the viewer's gaze. For example, consider her photograph of a Chinese Chinese a of photograph her consider example, For gaze. viewer's the capture and guide that lighting subtle and colors, contrasting of icon, the wok. Instead of showing a chef stir-frying food with flames dramatically spilling over the edges of the wok, Boyers presents presents Boyers wok, the of edges the over spilling dramatically flames with food stir-frying chef a showing of Instead wok. the icon, a far more subtle rendering of an unattended wok on a stove in a dingy restaurant kitchen, seemingly at the end of the day, above above day, the of end the at seemingly kitchen, restaurant dingy a in stove a on wok unattended an of rendering subtle more far a which floats an eerie cloud of light. The image might lead a viewer to reflect about the work and skill underlying the delicious dishes dishes delicious the underlying skill and work the about reflect to viewer a lead might image The light. of cloud eerie an floats which that come from the wok. Many of the other images similarly evoke thoughts that go beyond what the eyes see.” see.” eyes the what beyond go that thoughts evoke similarly images other the Manyof wok. the from come that Independent arts curator Sonia Mak provided additional additional Makprovided Sonia curator arts Independent thoughtful commentary for the gathering. Additional commen- Additional gathering. the for commentary thoughtful tary can be found at: www.www.sarajaneboyersphoto.com at: found be can tary www.findingchinatown.blogspot.com www.detroitdefinition.blogspot.com www.sarajaneboyersisaloud.blogspot.com www.sarajaneboyers.com Mark your calendars: Sonia Mak is the guest curator and project project and curator guest the Makis Sonia calendars: your Mark manager for an important upcoming exhibition at the Vincent Price Art Art Price Vincent the at exhibition upcoming important an for manager Museum at East Los Angeles College entitled "Round the Clock: Clock: the "Round entitled College Angeles Los East Museumat Chinese American Artists Working in Los Angeles", opening January January opening Angeles", Los in Working Artists American Chinese 21, 2012. The exhibition will feature 60-70 works by George Chann, Chann, George by works 60-70 feature will exhibition The 2012. 21, Jake Lee, John Kwok, Milton Quon, and Tyrus Wong, and is part of of part is and Wong, Tyrus and Quon, Milton Kwok, John Lee, Jake “Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980”, a major initiative initiative major a 1945-1980”, L.A. in Art Time: Standard “Pacific supported by The Getty Foundation and The Getty Research Institute to to Institute Research Getty The and Foundation Getty The by supported bring together an unprecedented collaboration of museums and museums of collaboration unprecedented an together bring cultural organizations across Southern California to celebrate the the celebrate to California Southern across organizations cultural vibrancy of art in L.A. in the post-World War II decades. II War post-World the in L.A. in art of vibrancy Chinese Historical Society of Southern California SEPTEMBER 2011 Nancy Kwan For Asian American HcrilAge Monlh , Brian JamirSOIl obtai~ the rights from Paramo",,, Studios to $Orttn "The World o/S,,;;:i~ W""g" while Cirody Y ce waS able to obtain. I"Calre at the new AMC 1lIc.tre·14 in Monten:y Park. "The World ,,/Suzie Wong" was Na",y K wan's forst """"ie thaI catapulted hcr to international fame. Mr. Jamieson. prod"" .....1Id di=tor "f MTo WIIo", II May CI>IIN!rn. K" Shell 'J Jo..mey"' al On Augu<122, the Egyptian 1lIcatre in Il"nywood celebrated Ihe 50th Annivcrs&)' "f M Rodgen and Ilammentein'$ '"FlOl Community Colendor Special [,hibition Tour Thursda)', ~plembe r 22. 2011 _ C hinese American M"..,um·1 Comm.m.. rallng Or. Sun Yat_..,n', VI,I .. 10 ...... Ang~ I H 15th A n nua llli 'to1'}'m.k ~ rs A,... rd. B.nqu~t . SpOnsored by: Chi""se Arnerican Mus