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.
The China Society of Southern California's 80th Anniversary Luncheon
To celebrate its 80th Anniversary, The Society has a program featuring Clayton Dube, Executive Director of USC US-China Institute.
When:
November 21, 2015 1:45pm to 5:00pm
Where
Dr. William F. Hummel, Lecturer in Oriental History at USC and son of a missionary in China, and other Old China Hands who settled in Los Angeles realized that there was widespread ignorance about China. The roots of this ignorance ran deep in the conscience of the rank and file. Dr. Hummel felt there was a need to dispel bias and misinformation about China in America.
Peter SooHoo, Dr. Hummel and then Vice-Consul T.S. Kiang, represented the Chinese Americans, Old China Hands and the Chinese government respectively formed a coalition. Together with the intellectuals from USC and other universities formed The China Society of Southern California in 1935 in Los Angeles Chinatown.
To celebrate its 80th Anniversary, The Society has a program featuring Clayton Dube, Executive Director of USC US-China Institute. This Institute investigates the coalition that Peter Soo Hoo and Dr. Hummel formed and its relationship to Los Angeles, China, and the changing times of the last eighty years.
Please join us for a delicious 10-course lunch. Spread the word to your friends and associates, ask them to join you or invite them as your guests. There will also be music and an exhibition of memorabilia dating back to 1935.
President’s Message
Peter Soo Hoo is the co-founder of New Chinatown in Los Angeles. While the old Chinatown was being torn down to make way for Union Station, he was building the foundation for a Chinatown owned by Chinese-Americans.
Peter Soo Hoo is also the co-founder of The China Society of Southern California. Just as he built a coalition of diverse groups to build New Chinatown, he built a coalition of leading Chinese-Americans, representatives of the Chinese government, "Old China Hands", and intellectuals from USC and other schools of higher learning to form The China Society of Southern California in 1935. Past presidents of the Society have included Peter Soo Hoo, educator Theodore Chen, merchant Albert T. Quon, actor Richard Loo, agent Bessie Loo, actress Beulah Kwoh, banker Wilber Woo, and fan dancer, Noel Toy.
The China Society of Southern California archive is gifted to USC East Asian Library. The Collection is now part of USC Digital Library that is accessible to the public.
Bob Lee, President
Cost:
$50 per person ($20 are tax deductible)
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