Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Target Free Thursday Talk: The Chinese American Experience Through the Eyes of the Flying Tigers
The Museum of Chinese in America in New York hosts Chinese Americans who voluntarily enlisted in the Armed Services during WWII.
When:
September 22, 2011 6:30pm to 8:00pm
World War II was a watershed moment for Chinese Americans; the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act was finally repealed in 1943, allowing a restricted number(105) of Chinese to immigrate to the U.S. each year and granting foreign-born Chinese the right to become naturalized citizens.
During WWII, many second-generation Chinese Americans voluntarily enlisted in the Armed Services and fought for the U.S. abroad, including the 14th Air Service Group (part of General Claire Chennault’s famous Flying Tigers) and 987th Signal Company. These two groups were made up of strictly Chinese Americans, who responded to the need for men who spoke Chinese and had technical skills to serve in China during the war.
Why were Chinese American armed service groups organized? What was it like for the Chinese American soldiers to be in China, a place they only know through their parents or text books, for the first time? How did fighting for the U.S. in China shape their identities as “Chinese” or “Americans of Chinese descent”? Join MOCA for a moderated discussion with veterans of the 14th Air Service Group and 987th Signal Company on their wartime experiences.
RSVP REQUIRED to programs@mocanyc.org.
Cost:
Free and open to the public, courtesy of TARGET.
Event Website URL:
Phone Number:
(212) 619-4785
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Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 4:00pm
Join us for an in-person conversation on Thursday, November 7th at 4pm with author David M. Lampton as he discusses his new book, Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War. The book examines the history of U.S.-China relations across eight U.S. presidential administrations.