EDITORIALS
CHINESE INFLUENCE IN THE 19TH CENTURY
The Chinese were not only forced to work for next to nothing - they proved to be extremely capable. "They are the mainstay of the orchardist," said the Pacific Rural Press, "The only supply of labor he can depend upon. They are pickers and packers of fruit. It is difficult to see how our annual fruit crop could be harvested and prepared for market without 'Chinaman'."

PAST CHINESE IMMIGRATION POLICIES

APA & MEDIA NEWS
HIKARU UTADA AND MTV'S FLUX
Superstar Hikaru Utada is being featured in what MTV claims is the world's first mobile phone-based music-video series comprising animated clips based on songs from Utada's 2004 English-language album, Exodus on MTV Networks' new Flux service, which it calls "the world's first mobile entertainment community."
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DALPHNE KWOK HEAD "ANGEL ISLAND" FOUNDATION
Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (AIISF) has appointmented Daphne Kwok, nationally-known Asian/Pacific Islander American leader, as its new Executive Director.
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WHY CHINESE IMMIGRATED
The background about why Chinese immigrated to the United States was very complicated. The factors that made the Chinese to leave their homeland and to go to a place where they had never been before had changed as time went by. Chinese have been to the United States for a long, long time.
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SHO YANO - CHILD PRODIGY
Sho Yano was born in Portland, Oregon to a Korean mother and Japanese father. He was diagnosed as a prodigy with an IQ of more than 200 and begins medical school.
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ANGEL ISLAND INTERROGATION
The Chinese immigrants were often faced with unreasonable and lengthy interrogations while being detained on the island. The interrogation process was a frightening event for the detainees. During the interrogations, which would take one to two whole days to finish, Chinese immigrants were usually beginning to ask with very detailed and uneasy-to-answer questions.
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CHINESE AMERICAN BUSINESSES
Chinese immigrants had established businesses in the United States for a long time. The businesses were from very small, one-person operations to huge concerns with branches all over the world. The Chinese businesses changed greatly over the years and were influenced by economic events, by American reception of the Chinese and by world events.
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CHINESE AMERICANS & COMPUTER INDUSTRY BUSINESSES
Chinese Americans have contributed a lot to the development of computer industry in California. The Silicon Valley, Which is famous in computer industry, is formed by a large number of Chinese with technical skills in computer science. Wang An, Jerry Yang, and David Tsang are those who have succeeded in computer industry and have their own business in California.
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CHINESE AMERICANS IN OTHER BUSINESSES
The performance of the Chinese workers in the industries they entered shows conclusively that,given normal condition, they would quickly have emerged as a valuable part of the industrial working class of America. There are numerous testimonials to their skills, diligence, and discipline, but the American Federation of Labor unions refused to bring the Chinese workers into their organization. On the contrary, Samuel Gompers and his colleagues led the anti-Chinese chorus.
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CHINESE AMERICANS SEEK EDUCATION
Since the first group of Chinese set foot on America more than one hundred years ago, education of Chinese American developed from zero to that excellence of today. Many Chinese Americans contributed and keep on contributing to education of America. One hundred years ago, there almost were no schools for Chinese Americans. They didn't have right and chance to go to public school.
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CHINESE MEDICINE
Unlike science, Chinese medicine was not being cheered by the Americans at first. When the Chinese herbalists first came, they had a lot of problems. Americans thought Chinese medicine was useless. They joined together to suppress Chinese herbalists. Year by year, more and more people believed in Chinese herbs and medicine. By the later part of this century, acupuncture was introduced to the US. Now, more and more doctors are trying to get acupuncture license.
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CHINESE IN POLITICS
Fast-growing number of Chinese American politicians are making contributions in the USA. The political world in the USA is still dominated by white people - though that is changing.
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CHANGING ASIAN FACES IN AMERICAN FILMS
Charlie Chan, Fu Manchu, Long Duk Dong: The American film landscape is littered with speech-impaired, bucktooth stereotypes of Asian peoples. But the picture is getting brighter as young Asian-American filmmakers tweak the caricatures, cull from their own lives and create fleshed-out Asian characters.
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"CROSSING EAST" RADIO PROGRAMS
"Crossing East" is an eight-hour radio documentary produced for national distribution during Asian Heritage Month, May 2006. The program will rely on scholar and oral history interviews, professional actors reading historical documents as well as literature and original music by traditional Asian American musicians around the country.
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MARC YU - CHILD PRODIGY ON PIANO
"In Marc's case, he could be the next household-name pianist," said Jeffrey Bernstein, director of choral music at Occidental College and assistant conductor of the Pasadena Symphony.
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RAIDS ON S. KOREAN BROTHELS
Two criminal syndicates suspected of smuggling hundreds of South Korean women into the United States to work at brothels in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas have been broken up with the arrest of 45 people, including the ringleaders.
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TIM BURTON'S BOLLYWOOD INFLUENCES
"But Tim (Burton) was, 'No! When you're watching the Bollywood musicals, one song is a ballad, one is a rock song, you get each song not knowing where they're going to be coming from.' "
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PLIGHT AND FALL OF THE FILM INDUSTRY
73% of adults prefer watching movies at home, according to an Associated Press-AOL poll. A quarter of those polled said they had not been to a theater in the last year. Compared with last year, box-office receipts have been down every weekend since late February; the last time comparable business was off for such a long span was in 1985.
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KIMS OF COMEDY
"The Asian comedy market is one that has never really been tapped," says Steve Byrne, lounging in the green room of the Punch Line Comedy Club. "I mean, even animals have their own planet!"
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MINIDOKA INTERNMENT MONUMENT
Hoping to give modern-day visitors a glimpse of life at a World War II internment camp in this rural farming community, the National Park Service is proposing to recreate a block of barracks like those that housed the 13,000 Japanese-Americans detained at the compound between 1942 and 1945.
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TOURISM AND DIVERSITY
The new American-history-lesson car trip may include a place like Manzanar, a former Japanese-American internment camp in Independence, Calif., or Angel Island Immigration Station Barracks in San Francisco Bay - for the Chinese, the Ellis Island of the West. (Discount rates can be found at ExpertFlyer.Com)
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ASIAN YOUTHS AS ENTREPENEURS
Synovate's newest survey conducted in collaboration with MSN, MTV and Yahoo!, reveals that Asian youth are more interested in becoming an entrepreneur as they near age 15, in addition to 19% reporting the a secure job is their first concern and 16% worry about financial stability.
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CHAN ACCUSES TUCKER AS BEING A DIVA
Jackie Chan has accused his Rush Hour costar Chris Tucker of blocking production of a new installment of the franchise by making a power grab. "He wants final editing rights and the final look at the movie and so on," Chan told The Associated Press.
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INCREASED MULTICULTURAL AD REQUESTS
The website saw a 64% increase in ad and marketing communication searches for agencies that center on the multicultural marketing market within a 3 month period alone (August 1-October 31, 2004 vs. May 1-July 31, 2004).
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REACHING APA CONSUMERS
Korean and Chinese TV are the most popular for the ethnic Asian American media consumers with 25% as primary consumers. Asian Americans look to read their ethnic newspapers with nearly 80% of the Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese adults perusing one regularly.
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WENDI MURDOCH & JULIE MOONVES
Wendi Deng Murdoch and Julie Chen Moonves were part of Billionaire Investment Banker Herbert Allen's Annual Media and Technology Conference.
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BMI GAUGE TEST (BODY FAT) INACCURATE
Even when waist size and waist-to-hip ratios were considered, the study found that many in the Asian, Chinese and Aboriginal groups who had "healthy" BMI levels were at high risk of weight-related health problems and didn't know it.
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SUCCESS OF CHINA INC.
China's most successful acquisitions to date in the U.S. have little to do with China's low- cost money and workers or buying our brands. They are instead all about Chinese management skill and U.S. workers. These no-name Chinese acquisitions are turn-arounds founded on hard-nosed Chinese business practices, and they import less product from China than most U.S. manufacturers do.
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BAI LING - FROM CHINA TO PLAYBOY
"Bai Ling Naked" screams the headline, and there she is -- in a bizarre outfit of skimpy leather straps that leaves you wanting more (or is it less?) -- the first Asian-born actress to grace the cover of Playboy magazine. She's come a long way since Tiananmen Square.
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STACEYANN CHIN - SLAM POET
A part-Black, part-Chinese lesbian immigrant from Jamaica, Staceyann Chin finds poetry in belonging everywhere and no place in particular. "The gay-lesbian community is so white here. I am in the black community, but I am queer. I have a foot in the Asian community."
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SLOW PROCESS OF DIVERSITY IN NEWSROOMS
UNITY: Journalists of Color survey showed that employment of people of color in local television broadcast newsrooms declined from 21.8 percent in 2003 to 21.2 percent in 2004. Journalists of color working in local radio also experienced a decline from 11.8 percent to 7.9 percent. The percentage of people of color at English-language television stations also dropped from 19.8 percent to 19.5 percent.
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JET LI WANTS TO INSPIRE YOUTHS
Jet Li says the high number of suicides in China prompted him to make his new movie about kung-fu master Huo Yuanjia, saying he wants to inspire youngsters to live life to the fullest like Huo did.
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GUS LEE'S "TIGER'S TAIL"
While reading Gus Lee's third and latest novel, Tiger's Tail, I asked myself, not for the first time, what we mean when we say someone is "a typical American." Since we're all together in this crazy American pastiche--a cultural experiment that can best be likened to a salmagundi, owing to its colorful, flavorful ingredients--it occurred to me that Lee and the multiethnic cast of characters he has thrown together in this semiautobiographical tale are indeed typical Americans.
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SCHIZOPHRENIA & RACE
Although schizophrenia has been shown to affect all ethnic groups at the same rate, the scientist found that blacks in the United States were more than four times as likely to be diagnosed with the disorder as whites. Hispanics were more than three times as likely to be diagnosed as whites.
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PSYCHOLOGY AND RACE
This thing called psychiatry -- it is a European-American invention, and it largely has no respect for nonwhite philosophies of mental health and how people function. A lot of minority groups perceive psychiatric interventions as an ideological approach that discounts their own cultures.
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JACKIE CHAN WANTS RISKIER ROLES
Jackie Chan says he prefers making movies in Asia because he can try risky new genres on his home turf, while in Hollywood, he stars in action comedies that are more likely to be box office hits. Still, he aspires to the diversity of a Robert De Niro, and says it's the right thing to do artistically. "Should I make movies just for strong box-office numbers? Should I become enslaved by movies? I don't want to stay at the same spot," he said. "I hope every one of my films is different."
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CHOU YUN-FAT'S NEW ROLE
Hollywood star Chow Yun-Fat is making his first film in native Hong Kong in a decade, saying he would forgo a higher pay check in the U.S. because he liked the part and wanted to work with the director. "I agreed to this movie because I haven't worked with Ann in a long time. I admire her and Siqin Gaowa a lot. Plus the role I was offered in this movie is something new. I've never played a swindler before, so I want to try."
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NATIVE HAWAIIANS SOVEREIGNTY
Now, 112 years after United States troops helped overthrow the independent Kingdom of Hawaii and 12 years after Congress apologized for it, that Hawaiian distinctiveness appears close to being formally recognized by the United States government. A bill that for the first time would extend sovereignty to the native Hawaiian people is poised for a vote - and likely approval - in the United States Senate despite opposition from many Republicans who denounce the measure as unworkable and as promoting racial Balkanization.
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CHINESE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM SEEK JAPAN'S APOLOGY
The Bay Area's Chinese Holocaust Museum, Rape of Nanking Redress Coalition and Global Alliance for Preserving the Truth of the Sino-Japanese War want Japan to make amends for its actions before and during World War II.
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JOAN CHEN - ELIZABETH TAYLOR OF CHINA
She made the surprising revelation that she was actually on the short list to direct the movie (Memoirs of a Geisha) but lost out to Rob Marshall shortly before production began. Chen said that she does not mind playing such roles (exotic Asian female characters), "I'm comfortable being a woman. I have no problem being a `white man's fantasy'".
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LUCY LIU INTERVIEW
The first thing I noticed when meeting actress Lucy Liu on the set of the Ghost House movie Rise (other upcoming movies include Lucky Number Slevin w/Kingsley and Morgan Freeman, Charlie Chan project, Asian Brides, 3 Needles and Devil to Pay) is that she's just breathtakingly gorgeous in person, with a devilish grin and beguiling eyes that convey an uncommon wisdom. She's also very petite, almost small enough to, say, put in your pocket and sneak out of the studio before security stops you and you have to quickly come up with a clever explanation for stealing the film's diminutive and exquisite star.
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AMERICANS FEAR MORE ABOUT WWIII THAN JAPANESE
Americans are far more likely than the Japanese to expect another world war in their lifetime.
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TELLY LEUNG OF "WICKED"
Currently starring as Boq in the Chicago production of Wicked, Telly's Broadway credits include Flower Drum Song, and Pacific Overtures (on which he also appears on the cast recording). Outside of New York, he's appeared as Simon in Jesus Christ Superstar (Music Circus), Thuy in Miss Saigon (PCLO), Lun Tha in The King and I (starring Lou Diamond Phillips), and Dolph in But, I'm a Cheerleader!
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DAI SIJIE'S "MR. MUO'S TRAVELING COUCH"
Dai Sijie's endearing Mr. Muo in "Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch" has just returned from France, where he trained as a psychoanalyst. His goal is to be the first psychoanalyst in China. But first he has to find a virgin. Now the worldwide success of his first novel, "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress," has put his movie career back on track.
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IMMIGRANTS' USAGE OF HEALTHCARE
Immigrants are not swamping the U.S. health care system and use it far less than native-born Americans, according to a American Journal of Public Health study. Immigrants accounted for 10.4 percent of the U.S. population but only 7.9 percent of total health spending and 8 percent of government health spending. Health spending by the government, insurers and patients themselves averaged $1,139 per immigrant compared to $2,564 for non-immigrants.
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JUN ICHIKAWA'S "TONY TAKITANI"
"Tony Takitani" is a sad song of loneliness from the start. Both highly specific and somehow universal in its conjuring of melancholy, Jun Ichikawa's film traces the title character's fundamental separateness as sprung forth and emblematized by his name.
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JAY CHOU WANTS TO BE JET LI OF MUSIC
Asian pop sensation Jay Chou admires Eminem, Jay-Z and Usher and hopes to break into Western markets. His strategy: "I want to become the Jet Li of music." He's branching out into acting, too, making his feature film debut in "Initial D," a Hong Kong production based on a Japanese cartoon series about street car racing. He says that action film star Li is his model because he used a Chinese art to attain success in the West.
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NICOLE KIDMAN IN "LADY IN SHANGHAI"
Wong Kar-wai plans to put Kidman in his new production Lady from Shanghai. Kidman did not request to see the screenplay, which fully reflected her trust in Wong and has already prepared to adapt to Wong's trademark directing style, which focuses less on script and more on on-spot shooting. The story is inspired by a lady in danger and mixes love with espionage. The movie will be produced in Shanghai but features an international cast.
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HAYAO MIYAZAKI HONORED IN VENICE
Every year, the Venice Film Festival honors a film career, and this edition's prize will go to Hayao Miyazaki, a Japanese animation master who has been called "the Japanese Disney."
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CHARLIE CHAN'S SCRIPTWRITER - DAN MCDERMOTT
With Lucy Liu attached to star, 20th Century Fox has turned to executive-turned-scribe Dan McDermott to pen the script for an updated version of Charlie Chan. In addition, Jennifer Klein and her Apartment 3B Prods. have joined the project in a producing capacity. Liu will executive produce.
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AMERICAN'S INTEREST TO LEARN MANDARIN
China is casting such a huge shadow on the United States that many Americans are scrambling to learn the Chinese language in a bid to retain their competitive edge. "Interest in learning Chinese among American youth and their parents has grown dramatically in the past five years," said Vivien Stewart, vice president at the Asia Society, a US group trying to bridge the gap between Americans and the peoples of Asia and the Pacific.
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DON'T WORRY ABOUT CHINA, LEARN FROM IT
Suppose that China becomes a larger economic power than the United States. Suppose, in our great-great-grandchildren's day, that the average Chinese citizen is about as rich as the average American. How would it hurt us? Why would we be worse off? If the Chinese were richer, they could buy more from us and employ more of our workers. They could buy more of our stocks. They could tour our beautiful nation more. The fact that our neighbors are worse off does not make us richer, and the fact that they are better off does not make us poorer.
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