The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California is offering its
first scholarship to college undergraduates and graduates in the field
of Chinese American studies. The scholarships are each for $1000. The
website features detailed information.
This museum - still in its planning stages - addresses contemporary
immigration, post World War II. The mission of the museum is to inspire
not only the children of migrant workers, but the nation as a whole in
order celebrate our diverse histories and our common values.
The San Diego Maritime Museum website provides
information on their newest exhibit Mariners and Mandarines: Seafaring
and the China Trade." SDCHM works closely with the Maritime Museum, as
fishing and seafaring were the livelihood of the earliest Chinese
immigrants in San Diego community.
The recently aired PBS documentary, Becoming American:
the Chinese Experience is a mosaic of personal memoirs and insights of
Chinese Americans who lived in Chinatown. The website is an excellent
supplementary to the documentary. It features pictures and descriptions
of historical artifacts, as well as an interactive database where you
can
submit your or your own family's immigrant experience.
Fall 2002
Newsletter: The New York Times article, "At
a Military Museum, the Losers Write History."
This article sent to us by Museum Board Member, Linda Tu, tells of a
Japanese museum's one-sided presentation of the country's military
history. French critics reported that this museum changed the infamous
"Rape of Nanjing" - in which international historians say Japan
massacred 100,000 to 300,000 Chinese in December 1937 - into simply the
"Nanjing Incident."
