Follow up on Photographs at UC Berkeley and some other issues
The last few days have been fruitful. We've interviewed 2 middle-aged Chinese Americans who work for the Cornerstone Evangelical Church and a few students from Berkeley. I would like to publish our interviews and observations on this blog, but I'm in the midst of getting the approval of the participants. I do hope they would agree to having their picture and a write up on our interview with them published on this blog.
Today, I met Victor on campus at the Freshers’ orientation booth at Sproul. Victor is the president of the Society of Hong Kong and Chinese Affairs (SHKCA). This association was initially formed in response to the 1989 Tiananmen Incident in Beijing. At present the association is a neutral forum for the discussion of cultural, economic, social and political issues of concern to Chinese communities in East Asia, as well as to keep abreast with the developments of Modern China.
I spent an hour talking to him about his views about the ‘hua qiao’ and he was generous in his knowledge and gave me a brief history of the ‘hua qiao’ since the earthquake in SF up to present. We conversed in Mandrin, a language that he felt more comfortable in speaking. It many ways, despite him being a 3rd generation Chinese American, he struck me as someone who was well in-tuned with his cultural heritage, much in contrast to the other Chinese American students around Berkeley who have rather thick America accents.
We couldn’t speak for long because he had to work at the ethnic library, so he will be taking me and Janice on a tour of his Chinatown SF tomorrow – he is a local resident there. I'm personally looking forward to the tour tomorrow.
In other news, Janice and I spoke to the lady who was selling the T-shirts at Telegraph Ave. We found out that she was from Shanghai and has just migrated to the Bay Area five years ago. Her husband has been here much longer than she has (about 8 years) and he is the artist behind those drawings you see on the T-shirts in the previous post. We'll talk to her more when we get one of those T-shirts for souvenirs.
Steph
Today, I met Victor on campus at the Freshers’ orientation booth at Sproul. Victor is the president of the Society of Hong Kong and Chinese Affairs (SHKCA). This association was initially formed in response to the 1989 Tiananmen Incident in Beijing. At present the association is a neutral forum for the discussion of cultural, economic, social and political issues of concern to Chinese communities in East Asia, as well as to keep abreast with the developments of Modern China.
I spent an hour talking to him about his views about the ‘hua qiao’ and he was generous in his knowledge and gave me a brief history of the ‘hua qiao’ since the earthquake in SF up to present. We conversed in Mandrin, a language that he felt more comfortable in speaking. It many ways, despite him being a 3rd generation Chinese American, he struck me as someone who was well in-tuned with his cultural heritage, much in contrast to the other Chinese American students around Berkeley who have rather thick America accents.
We couldn’t speak for long because he had to work at the ethnic library, so he will be taking me and Janice on a tour of his Chinatown SF tomorrow – he is a local resident there. I'm personally looking forward to the tour tomorrow.
In other news, Janice and I spoke to the lady who was selling the T-shirts at Telegraph Ave. We found out that she was from Shanghai and has just migrated to the Bay Area five years ago. Her husband has been here much longer than she has (about 8 years) and he is the artist behind those drawings you see on the T-shirts in the previous post. We'll talk to her more when we get one of those T-shirts for souvenirs.
Steph
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