Bulletin CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA | SPRINGFall 2009 2009 | Vol. | VOL. 45, 45,No NO. 2 1

CHSAHistory Annual Alive! Gala “Uncle Voice Toisan” & Vision 2009 Premieres to Grand Reception Showcases an Extraordinary Year Photo LelandWong by Phil Choy, Jeanie WC Low, Jennie Lew, Connie Young Yu, Sue Lee, and SF Supervisor Bevan Dufty gather together onstage during the gala awards ceremony.

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Jeaniecenter WC for immigrants—largelyLow, Communication Co- WorldSan Francisco War II, returningAssessor-Recorder from the Intercontinentalperformance of Mark “Uncle Hopkins Toisan” by chairsChinese, of SONA but also (Save Japanese, Our National Russian, battlefieldPhil Ting welcomedto face discrimination the crowd at HotelArtist-in-Residence in . Charlie Chin Archives)and many coalition, others. with the History while Assemblymember Paul Fong CONTINUEDGala continued ON PAGEon Page 2 2 thisA spring.capacity crowd of nearly 400 peopleThis Chautauqua representing-style a storytell- UPCOMING EVENTS grand mix of society—political ing presentation features a Chinese Upcoming “Uncle Toisan” Events figures,American professionals, immigrant’s corporate unique life Celebrate the Lunar New Year! andin foundationthe .sponsors, Highlighting and Saturday,Saturday, March May 6, 16, 2010 12:15-12:45 from 2-4 pmpm, Asian Heritage Street Celebration, communitythe Chinese leaders—were Exclusion Act, present Angel CHSA200 LarkinMuseum St, &(in Learning front of theCenter Asian Art Museum), San Francisco forIsland, the evening’s World War festivities. II, and the civil 965 Clay St, San Francisco rightsPresiding movement, as Master “Uncle of Toisan” is a (415)Sunday, 391-1188 June 7, 3-4 pm, Oakland Museum of , 1000 Oak St Ceremoniespowerful, affecting,for Voice &and Vision educational (@10th St, one block from Lake Merritt BART), Oakland* 2009experience was San for Francisco all audiences. Saturday,Come celebrate June 13, the 2:30-3:30 Lunar New pm, Year San with Francisco a Public Library, SupervisorUncle Bevan Toisan Dufty, enters who the country receptionChinatown & open Branch, house 1135 at CHSA! Powell This St special presentedas a 17-year-old CHSA’s “paperartistry son” and (immi- occasion will also feature the grand opening of the accomplishmentgrants who purchased through legal multi- immi- Sunday, June 14, 2-3 pm, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, 150 E. newSan exhibit: Fernando “The St, Architecture San Jose of San Francisco’s mediagration presentations status as a “paperof Artist- son” of an Chinatown.” in-ResidenceAmerican citizen), Charlie then Chin’s perseveres Tuesday,“Present-day June visitors23, 6:15-7:15 to Chinatown pm, Dr. see Martin it Luther King, Jr. Library, Historythrough Alive! a two-month performances detention and a at only150 as E.an San unassimilated Fernando St,foreign San Josecommunity where cultural traditions are the U.S. Immigration Station at An- Tribute to Him Mark Lai. Musical preserved* All programs and where are FREE the to architectural the public with forms the exception are mere of transplants June 7th, when from performancesgel Island on by the Pianist eve of Jon its Jangclosing in .“Uncle Transfixed Toisan” is presented by cultural as part exotics, of OMCA’s few seeFamily that Explorations! the social Thehistory of the 1939. Often called the Guardian of performance is free with OMCA museum admission. & Saxophonist Francis Wong community is intimately interwoven with its architecture.” - Phil Choy accompaniedthe Western the Gate, videos. the U.S. Immigra- Upcoming Events continued on Page 7 Gala continued from page 1 CHSA BOARD OF CHSA Congratulates the History Maker Awardees! DIRECTORS (D-Cupertino) presented a framed format of the ACR 42 bill passed by Jeanie W. C. Low & Jennie Lew Paul Fong, President the California legislature in July that st Connie Young Yu, 1 Vice President apologizes to Chinese Americans for For Saving the Alien Registration Files, thus Doug Chan, Esq., 2nd Vice president past discrimination and unjust laws preserving an invaluable primary resource of Chinese American immigration heritage. Linda Cheu, Treasurer enacted by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Virginia C. Gee, Secretary Working ten years on behalf of the Save Our Voice & Vision 2009 rounded National Archives Coalition, Steve Adams out the evening with a spectacularly Cedric Cheng successful raffle & silent auction. Your Voice could not be silenced, Mike Cheng Items up for bidding included: Your Vision could not be dimmed. Barre Fong 5-day/4-night stay at Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio Hotel; 2-night resort Cindy Hu Chinese America is forever indebted to you stay in South Lake Tahoe; 1-night and Jennie Lew. Elsie Lam stay at Four Seasons Hotel, San th Sandy Lee Francisco; Yao-Ming autographed Presented this 12 day of September 2009 Ty Lim basketball; James Bond 007 Russell Leong Collection Special Edition DVD Paul Tsang set; a dinner for ten by Google Chef Olivia Wu; specialty wines; and Gift Alisa Yee Certificates to Medjool, Namu, Tru Brian Yee Spa, Avra Organic Spa, plus passes to California Academy of Sciences, Bay Jeffrey P. Woo, Legal Counsel Area Discovery Museum, American Conservatory Theatre, Asian Art BOARD EMERITI Museum, and more! Assemblymember Paul Fong (D-Cupertino) presented a framed format of the ACR 42 bill Him Mark Lai (deceased) Philip P. Choy

FOUNDERS Thomas W. Chinn C.H. Kwock Chingwah Lee H.K. Wong Miss Chinatown 2007 Betty Hsu and SF Supervisor Bevan Dufty & Thomas W.S. Wu, DDS Miss San Francisco Chinatown 2008 Illysa Lu CHSA Executive Director Sue Lee grin flank Phil Choy during the reception happily during the festivities STAFF Sue Lee, Executive Director Francis Wong, Special Projects Consultant Judy Hu, Communications Director Lenora Lee, Operations Manager Michelle Louie, Administrative Executive Pam Wong, Programs Coordinator

The capacity crowd at the Intercontinental Mark Hopkins Charlie Chin, Artist-in-Residence enjoys the dinner gala. Photos by Leland Wong

Fall 2009 Page 2 Him Mark Lai (1925-2009) The Dean of Chinese American History im Mark Lai, an internationally renowned archivist and historian of Chinese America and a highly respected leader of the community, died peacefully on Thursday, May 21, after a long struggle with cancer and other complications. For his immense contributions to Chinese American history, The Chronicle of Higher Education deemed him “the Scholar who legitimized the study of Chinese America.” He was 84 years old. Photo LelandWong by Born on November 1, 1925 Him Mark and Laura Lai leave CHSA after in San Francisco’s Chinatown, to the Civil Rights Suite reception in May 2008 immigrant parents, Him Mark grew up an avid reader and collector of His most significant contribu- tory of Communities and Institutions books in both Chinese and English. tions to Chinese American history (2004). Under his editorial leadership, Upon graduation from high school, fall in three broad categories: research the annual journal of CHSA Chinese he completed his mechanical and publications; archival collections; America: History & Perspectives, has engineering degree at the University and nurturing and mentoring of been published each year. of California, Berkeley, in 1947 young Chinese American historians. Besides being a historian and and settled into a job at Bechtel In all, he published and edited archivist, Him Mark taught occa- Corporation shortly afterwards. ten books and more than one hun- sional courses in Chinese Ameri- In late 1949, he started dred articles on all aspects of Chinese can history in the Asian American volunteering for the Chung Sai Yat American life. His East/West arti- Studies Programs at San Francisco Po, the first daily paper to support the cles—revised and annotated—became State University and the University new People’s Republic of China. He the basis for the classic A History of of California, Berkeley. He provided also joined the Chinese American the Chinese in California, A Syllabus, help to hundreds of graduate students Democratic Youth League, also coedited with Thomas W. Chinn and and scholars across the globe. Virtu- known as Mun Ching, where he met Philip P. Choy, as well as for the first ally every dissertation and book on Laura Jung, a young new immigrant, Chinese American history course in the subject in the past thirty years is whom he eventually married in the United States, which Lai team indebted to him. 1953. Laura became his life-time taught with Choy at San Francisco A memorial service and celebra- companion and steadfast supporter State College in Fall 1969. Their tion of Him Mark Lai’s life was until he died. joint teaching resulted in another attended by nearly 500 people at In 1960, Him Mark enrolled classic Outlines: History of the Chinese the Chinese Culture Center at 750 in a course, “The Oriental in in America. Kearny Street in Chinatown on June North America,” at the University Lai’s first scholarly essay, “A His- 20. His family asked that in lieu of of California Extension in San torical Survey of Organizations of the flowers, donations be sent to CHSA Francisco, which exposed him for Left Among the Chinese in Ameri- or the charity of one’s choice. the first time to the histories of the ca,” published in the Fall 1972 issue For more information on this Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos in of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian remarkable figure, please visit CHSA’s America. He subsequently read a Scholars, remain a standard reference. The Him Mark Lai Digital Ar- half dozen or so titles on Chinese in So do Island: Poetry and History of chive Project at http://himmarklai. America published in the early 1960s Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island org/ or view “The Master Archi- and joined the Chinese Historical 1910-1940, co-authored/translated vist” at http://www.youtube.com/ Society of America soon after its with Genny Lim and Judy Yung and watch?v=9GikMU-T8jA founding in 1963. Becoming Chinese Americans: A His-

Fall 2009 Page 3 You are cordially invited to a very special book event at CHSA: Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 6 pm Nokes also steps back to explain Six men and boys were charged why Chinese immigrated to the Pacific with the murders after gang member Northwest, what they did, how they Frank Vaughan, son of a well- were treated, and what became of known settler family, confessed and them. Along with gold mining, the turned state’s evidence. Three gang Chinese helped build the new railroads members—the probable ringleaders— then spanning the West. fled, while three others were found The massacre was the worst of innocent by a jury. One witness said the many crimes committed by whites the jury had little interest in convicting against the approximately 300,000 anyone for killing a Chinese. A cover- Chinese, most of them poor, who up followed, and the crime was all but emigrated to the American West in forgotten for the next 100 years, until a n the closing event of the Year search of work in the second half county clerk uncovered long-forgotten of the Ox, Author Gregory Nokes will of the 19th century. While no one records in an unused safe. talk about his new book, Massacred for ever was convicted of the massacre, Nokes is a former reporter and Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon, in a evidence pointed to an improbable editor, with more than 40 years special presentation at CHSA. gang of seven rustlers and schoolboys, experience in journalism, including Nokes’ nonfiction book is the first one of whom was only 15 years old. with The and authoritative account of the long- One of the ringleaders was quoted The Oregonian. While with the overlooked 1887 massacre of as many as citing patriotism as a motive for the Associated Press, he served as a foreign as 34 Chinese gold miners massacre, killings: “We’d be getting ourselves correspondent in Latin America which occurred at a Hells Canyon some gold, and we’d be doing our and as a diplomatic correspondent mining camp, now officially named country a favor by getting rid of in , D.C. His travels as Chinese Massacre Cove. The book the Chinamen.’’ The crime wasn’t a journalist took him to more than traces the author’s difficult journey discovered until bodies surfaced near 50 countries, including three trips to in digging out the facts of the crime, Lewiston, Idaho, after floating 65 China. A native of , Nokes including breaking through the miles down the north-flowing Snake lives with his wife, Candise, in West reluctance of two long-time residents River, which winds through Hells Linn. For more information, please of Wallowa County to tell what they Canyon, the deepest canyon in North visit: www.rgregorynokes.com. knew. America. Spirit of Japantown San Jose Street Festival HSA Board Vice President Connie Young Yu participated in the Spirit of Japantown San Jose Street Festival on Saturday, September 26. With the theme Sharing the Spirit! Congressman Mike Honda introduced the innovative drum ensemble San Jose Taiko. The San Jose Street Festival had three entertainment areas, food, art, crafts, silent auction, a raffle, cultural exhibits, displays, demonstrations, and much more! San Jose Japantown is one of the last three major Japantowns that remain in the United States. Japantown Community Congress of San Jose (JCCsj) was created to continue the cultural and historical preservation of our 119 year-old, multi-ethnic Japantown. Profits from this festival will be Yu PhotoYoung Courtesy of Connie used to continue JCCsj efforts for the historical and cultural preservation of CHSA Board Vice President representing CHSA at the San Jose Japantown. Spirit of Japantown San Jose Street Festival

Fall 2009 Page 4 History Alive! “Uncle Toisan” a Storytelling Success then witnesses and experiences the tremendous changes stemming from the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the final lifting of Exclusion, the growth of Asian American political empowerment and the changing demographics of California. Following the premiere performance of “Uncle Tois- an” on April 18, 2009 (which was attended by an audience of 250), more than 50 educational and public events took place at schools (such as Chinese American Interna- tional School, International Studies Academy, Guadal- upe Elementary School, John Muir Middle School, and Aragon High School), universities (San Francisco State University Ethnic Studies program, Cal State East Bay), HSA’s original History Alive! performance of a museum (Oakland Museum of California), libraries “Uncle Toisan” by Artist-in-Residence Charlie Chin (Main Branch of the San Francisco Public Library, SF this spring and summer was an astounding success. Chinatown Branch, San Jose’s Martin Luther King, Jr. More than 8,000 people experienced the Chautauqua- Library), and street fairs (Asian Pacific American Heri- style storytelling presentation of a Chinese American tage Celebration in San Mateo, Asian Heritage Street immigrant’s unique life in the United States. Celebration in SF’s Civic Center). Highlighting the Chinese Exclusion Act, Angel “Uncle Toisan” was generously supported by a grant from Island, World War II, and the civil rights movement, the James Irvine Foundation, California Council for the “Uncle Toisan” was a powerful, affecting, and educational Humanities as part of the Council’s statewide California experience for all audiences. The story of an immigrant Stories Initiative, Zellerbach Family Foundation, and who enters the country as a 17 year old “paper son,” he Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation.

The Chinese Saving SF Chinatown After 1906 Julia Morgan and Exclusion Act Talk by Sue Lee the Chinatown YWCA Talk by Connie CHSA Executive Director Sue Lee Architectural Historian Karen Young Yu spoke about Chinatown’s critical role in McNeill spoke about the enduring A dark theme of San Francisco on Wednesday, June 24 cultural value of the Julia Morgan-de- 19th century San at SPUR’s Lunchtime Forum series. signed building that currently houses Francisco was its the CHSA Museum and Learning racism, including Center on Thursday, September 17 at the passing of CHSA. anti-Chinese city ordinances, and the participation in demonstrations and Congressional hearings leading up to the Chinese Exclusion Act of After the Great Earthquake & 1882. Fire of 1906, efforts to move SF’s Connie Young Yu, historian Chinatown were resisted by the and vice president of the CHSA, city’s Chinese populations. Shortly Presented in collaboration with discussed on Thursday, June 4, as part thereafter, the adoption of Chinese the San Francisco Architectural of the San Francisco Planning & motifs prevalent in the architectural Heritage, McNeill’s talk was part of Urban Research Association’s (SPUR) landscape along world-famous Grant the monthly lecture series held July Lunchtime Forum series, how the Avenue was a territory-defining through November; other lectures, Chinese survived in San Francisco strategy. workshops, seminars and architectural in the era of Exclusion with the help Lee discussed how Chinese walking tours are offered year-round of American friends and business survived in San Francisco in the era through which thousands of SF resi- partners. after the quake and how that strategy dents and visitors have discovered the defines the look of Chinatown today. city’s diverse built environment.

Fall 2009 Page 5 California Legislature and San Francisco Board of Supervisors Acknowledge Ramifications of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 The following is an excerpted draft of what was passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors earlier this fall n July 17, 2009, the California legislature WHEREAS, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 passed by Congress and signed by Presi- dent Chester A. Arthur severely curtailed immigration from China and denied to persons of approved the a landmark the Chinese race naturalization to citizenship; ACR 42 bill that apologizes to the state’s Chinese WHEREAS, this act caused untold suffering and hardship, separating families, creating a American community for past society of single men, and institutionalizing hostility, prejudice and isolation towards discrimination and unjust Chinese; laws enacted by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. WHEREAS, the City of San Francisco was the site of anti-Chinese agitation and organizing Assemblymember by hosting meetings, demonstrations, and state-wide conventions; Paul Fong (D-Cupertino) spearheaded the bill, WHEREAS, the Exclusion Law became the law of the United States on May 6, 1882;

which paved the way WHEREAS, the role which San Francisco played in the persecution and exclusion of the for the San Francisco Chinese and this chapter of American history has been long ignored and its significance Board of Supervisors on neglected, and the City of San Francisco should take prompt action to educate the September 15, 2009 to community and apply the lessons of the past to help the national debate over current pass the Chinese Exclusion immigration law and policies; Resolution “acknowledging the regrettable role that NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the City and County of San Francisco recog- San Francisco has played nizes the historical role that this City’s government played in the anti-Chinese movement in in advancing the policies of California throughout the United States, the federal Chinese Exclusion Acts, and related the Chinese Exclusion Act anti-Asian legislation.

of 1882, the first federal law RESOLVED FURTHER, that by supporting educational programs, seeking opportunities to discriminate against a to educate and celebrate the historic contributions of Chinese to the building of specific group solely on the the American West and the United States, including this history in official literature, desig- basis of race or nationality, nating historic sites as reminders of, and memorials to, the era of Chinese Exclusion and its and celebrating the significant lessons for today, and assuring that the civil and human rights of all San Franciscans will contributions of the Chinese never again be infringed on account of race or national origin. American community.” Paul Louie (September 10, 1918—October 18, 2009) he Reverend Paul Louie was born in Seattle, Washington, where he grew up in Canton Alley, in the heart of that area’s Chinatown. After graduating from Linfield College in Oregon and Harvard Divinity School in Boston, in 1948 he arrived in San Francisco to work at the Chinese YMCA. From 1950 onwards, Louie served in various Presbyterian churches in northern and southern

Photo Gary by Stroud California. In 1970, he joined the staff of the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commis- sion, where he systematically collected information on Asian activities in the Southern Cali- fornia area before he retired in 1986. This collection of newspaper clippings and assorted information has since been donated to CHSA. Louie’s community involvement prompted the founding of the Chinese Historical Society of Southern Califor- nia in 1975. Him and his wife Emma, the author of Chinese American Names: Tradition and Transition, met Daniel K.E.Ching, an avid collector of Chinese American memorabilia and images, during this time. Ching eventually named Paul and Emma as executors of his Chinese American collection, which they subsequently donated to CHSA. When he moved back to the Bay Area in the 1990s, he maintained his dedication to Chinese American history as a board member of CHSA. The Daniel K.E. Ching Collection contain invaluable historical items and CHSA is grate- ful for the support of the Paul and the entire Louie family. A memorial service for Reverend Louie took place Sunday, October 25 at Tiffany Chapel in Colma. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the charity of one’s choice or CHSA.

Fall 2009 Page 6 “Beyond the Arctic” Exclusive Film Screening Thursday, ursday, NovemberNovember 5,5, 2009,2009, 5:455:45 PMPM University of San Francisco Main Campus, Fromm Hall (Enter on Parker Street between Golden Gate & Fulton) Admission is free

Have you ever dreamed of an Arctic journey to the North Pole? eThe documentary documentary “Beyond “Beyond the the Arctic” Arctic” follows follows three three Taiwanese Taiwanese adventurers (a CEO of an online games company, a marathon runner, and a college student) who take on the Polar Challenge. isThis race race requires requires contestants contestants to to trek trek 600 600 kilometers kilometers on on foot foot over over 21 days from base camp to the Magnetic North Pole. After a crash course on essential survival skills–glacier skiing, navigation, treating dehydration and frost bite, warding offoff hungry hungry polar bears–the trio set off.off. Join us for an exclusive filmfilm preview,preview, Q&AQ&A sessionssessions with with the the directordirector Li-ChouLi-Chou YangYang && producerproducer MichelleMichelle Chu. Chu. Wine reception to follow; Reservations recommended, please call (415) 422-6828. eThe USF USF Center Center for for the the Pacific Pacific Rim Rim and and its its Japan Japan Policy Policy Research Research Institute Institute present present this this screening, screening, co-sponsored co-sponsored by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office,Office, San San Francisco Francisco Film Film Society, Society, Asia Asia Society, Society, and and CHSA. CHSA.

American Chinatown Book Reading with Author Bonnie Tsui Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 at 6 pm at CHSA Admission is free

In American Chinatown, acclaimed travel writer Bonnie Tsui embarks on a journey to findfind out out what what Chinatown Chinatown means means to to its its inhabitants inhabitants – –and and what what it it means means to to America. America. Tsui explores the lives, stories and struggles of those in the country’s fivefive most most famous Chinatowns: New York (the biggest), San Francisco (the oldest), Los Angeles (the filmfilm icon), icon), Honolulu Honolulu (the (the crossroads), crossroads), and and Las Las Vegas Vegas (the (the newest). newest). American Chinatown is the firstfirst book book to to use use stories stories from from these these iconic iconic neighborhoods neighborhoods to to illustrate illustrate the the unique unique complexities established by a century and a half of Chinese immigration.

CHSA would like to thank the following for their generous support of the Voice & Vision 2009 Gala: DISTINGUIDISTINGUISHshED PATRON Gee Family Foundation PacificPacific GasGas && ElectricElectric CompanyCompany

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2009 Silver SPUR Awards Luncheon Monday, November 2, 2009, 12 noon Moscone Center West Howard Street (between Fourth & Fifth St), San Francisco

Join us in honoring Historian & Architect Phil Choy as a Silver SPUR (San Francisco Planning & Urban Research Association) Awardee.

Given annually, the 2009 Silver SPUR Award spotlights individuals whose goals and achievements exemplify SPUR’s mission of good planning and government in the through research, education and advocacy.

Please register online at www.spur.org/silverspur or call (415)781-8726 x119

Individual tickets begin at $175 Reception begins at 10:30 am Luncheon from 12 noon to 1:30 pm.