Branching out the banyan tree
Subtitle: a changing Chinese America : conference proceedings = Rong hua feng mao : Meiguo Hua ren fa zhan yan tao hu lun wen ji.
Contributors: Chinese Historical Society of America.; San Francisco State University. Asian American Studies Dept.
Series: Chinese America, history and perspectives
Publisher: Chinese Historical Society of America
Published: 2007
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781885864307
Subjects: Chinese Americans -- History -- Congresses.; Chinese -- Foreign countries -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Rong hua feng mao :; Meiguo Hua ren fa zhan yan tao hu lun wen ji
Notes: Proceedings from the Seventh Chinese American Conference, held October 6 to 9, 2005, in San Francisco, sponsored by the Asian American Studies Department of San Francisco State University.

Published as the Special 20th Anniversary issue of Chinese America, history and perspectives.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chiefly in English, with some Chinese.
Table of contents: title: Twenty years of Chinese America: history and perspectives / Him Mark Lai; title: Branching out the banyan tree: a changing Chinese America / Lorraine Dong; title: Making history: conference banquet tribute to Philip P. Choy and Him Mark Lai [English and Chinese] / Marlon K. Hom; title: Conference honorees: Chinese America's grand historians / Philip P. Choy, Him Mark Lai; title: Luncheon keynote speeches / Charles B. Reed, Henry Der; title: Banquet keynote speaker / Gary Locke.; title: CONFERENCE PAPERS AND SUMMARIES. GENDER & FAMILY. Similarities in given names of Chinese and Anglo-Saxon origins / Emma Woo Louie; title: Black Chinese: history, hybridity, and home / Wendy Marie Thompson; title: My race, too, is queer: queer mixed heritage Chinese Americans fight for marriage equality / Wei Ming Dariotis; title: Marriage rights in the media / Stuart Gaffney; title: The emergence of Chinese American women; title: Contested childhoods: the Pacific Society for the Suppression of Vice vs. the WHMS Methodist Oriental Home, 1900-1903 / Jeffrey L. Staley; title: Oral history workshop / Judy Yung; title: HEALTH. The Chinese health agenda: proposed strategies for improving Chinese American health and wellness / Layla R. Hall and Kent Woo; title: Accomodating care of Type 2 diabetes for the Chinese American family / Christine M.L. Kwan, Kevin M. Chun, and Catherine A. Chesla; title: The use of complementary and alternative medicine among Chinese women with breast cancer / Evaon Wong-Kim; title: The development of a commmunity-based integrated health care system for the San Francisco Chinese Community / Edward A. Chow, Bernard Lau, L. Eric Leung, Richard Loos, and Brenda Yee; title: Accessing cultural competent health education programs in the twenty-first century / Angela Sun, Sarah Stearman, and Edward A. Chow; title: IMMIGRATION & SETTLEMENT. Overview and examples of NARA San Francisco historical resources then and now, 1975-2005 / Daniel Nealand; title: Beyond Black and White: race, class, and Chinese Americans in multiracial Chicago / ShanShan Lan; title: Old rituals in new lands / Roberta S. Greenwood; title: The Alien files or A files: the missing link; title: Rooted in the Americanization zeal: the San Francisco International Institute, race and settlement work, 1918-1939 / Andrew Urban; title: Detention at Angel Island: first empirical evidence / Robert Blade and Gustavo Bobonis; title: POLITICAL ACTIVISM. On Chinese American political participation since the post-war period: critical studies from Mainland China [Chinese] / Zhang Yinglong.; title: REGIONAL HISTORY. Reclaimed stories: Chinatown, Oakland, California / William Wong; title: Driven out: roundups and resistance of the Chinese in rural California / Jean Pfaelzer; title: Return of the "Heathen Chinee": stereotypes in Chinese American archaeology / Kelly Fong; title: Activating legal protections for archaeological remains of historic Chinatown sites: lessons learned from Oakland, California / Anna Naruta; title: Finding home again: the story of the Chinese Historical and Cultural Project and its efforts to reclaim the forgotten historic Chinatowns of San Jose, California / Rodney M. Lum; title: Forging a Chinese identity when everyone else is either Black or White / John Jung; title: A snapshot of the Asian community in 1930s San Diego / Murray K. Lee; title: The development of Chinese ethnic communities in Greater Boston / Shauna Lo; title: RELIGION. The history of two Taoist temples: the Baiyunguan in Shanghai, China and the Bok Kai in Marysville, California / Joan Mann; title: REPRESENTATION: MEDIA, LITERATURE & THE ARTS. Two critical points on Chinese language literature overseas [Chinese] / Frank Cheng; title: Chinese language literature in America: a historical development [Chinese] / Maurice Chuck; title: Dear Mother, I am tryng my best to come to you [Chinese] / Ray Lau; title: The Association of Overseas Chinese Language Literature: a brief introduction [Chinese] / Ziyi Liu; title: Perspectives on cultural attributes and identities in overseas Chinese [Chinese] / Lu Hong; title: On literary vitality [Chinese] / Zhao Sihong; title: Chinese language literature and the Chinese in America: a shared historical destiny [Chinese] / Zong Ying; title: What is Chinese American art?; title: The visual dialectics of golf, leisure, and beauty in Eva Fong Chan's painting / Di Yin Lu; title: On the term "Chinese language" (a preliminary manuscript) [Chinese] / Leung Puichee; title: Mirrors and windows: Chinese American filmmakers; title: Sing Tao Daily's overseas edition and the globalization of Chinese language newspapers [Chinese] / Joseph Leung; title: The development of Chinese language television in Northern California [Chinese] / Franklin Wu; title: More to the Chinese side: the ruminations of a fifth-generation Chinese American filmmaker / William Gow; title: TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES. The 1905 anti-American boycott as a transnational Chinese movement / Jane Leung Larson; title: Branching out: Chinese American literary studies in Taiwan / Te-hsing Shan; title: Motherland and Chinese diaspora / Da Zheng; title: Chinese crossing borders: a roundtable comparing Chinese in Canada and the United States; title: The new Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia / Edgar Wickberg; title: The Canadian Chinese Exclusion Act and the veterans who overcame it / Larry Wong; title: Homeland origins and political identities among Chinese Americans / Pei-te Lien; title: Adaption and organization: the history and heritage of the Chinese in the Riverina and Western New South Wales, Australia / Barry McGowan; title: Exile between two continents: Ettie Chin's war experiences in China (1937-1944) / Jim Feng; title: YOUTH & EDUCATION. Youth empowerment: employing opportunities; title: Youth empowerment: language, barriers, and opportunities; title: Mainstreaming and professionalizing Chinese-language education: a new mission for a new century / Stella Kwoh; title: An overview of the Chinese language schools in San Francisco [Chinese] / Catherine Leung; title: More than ninety years of Bay Area history: group homes for Chinese children.; title: CONFERENCE SESSIONS, SUPPORTERS, AND PARTICIPANT. Conference sessions; title: Special sessions; title: Chinese American Historical Society, Museum, and organization caucus; title: Conference sponsors, donors, supporters, and volunteers; title: Index of conference participants; title: Guidelines for manuscript submission; title: Membership form.