Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is celebrated in May to commemorate the contributions and heritage of people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent in the
Resources
http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/research/category/BIO_page.html
Search for biographical information and articles on notable Asian Americans by name or keyword, or use the Category Browse feature.
http://www.tshaonline.org/
Source includes articles on Asian ethnic groups in
http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/research/category/NEWS_page.html
Keep up with the latest news from around the world and in several languages online from major newspapers. English-language newspapers with an Asian outlook are also included.
http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/research/category/ALL_page.html#S
These online music collections are searchable by cultural group (e.g., Punjabi, Hawaiian, Japanese-American) or language (Cantonese, Indonesian, Hindi).
http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/research/category/WLC_page.html
Dragonsource (Chinese language only) Dragonsource Group is a Chinese content provider and a digital media corporation based in
Rosetta Stone - Online lessons for learning Chinese and Vietnamese, as well as for those learning English.
Web sites:
http://www.apaha.org/
Web site of the Houston-based organization that promotes awareness and appreciation of Asian cultural and ethnic groups. Includes news bulletins and archives as well as announcements of local events.
http://www.asiasociety.org/
Comprehensive Web site of the international pan-Asian organization that works to promote understanding and among the people of the
http://www.askasia.org/
An educational Web site produced by the Asia Society and aimed at students, children, and teachers interested in learning more about Asian cultures, history, and civilizations.
http://www.dol.gov/oasam/library/bib/asia.htm
A selected electronic bibliography Compiled by the Wirtz Labor Library Staff; U.S. Department of Labor
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race/api.html
Provides links to figures, tables, and reports on Asian and Pacific Islander populations in the
Related Source: American Factfinder - http://factfinder.census.gov
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/libtmpl.asp?url=/content/libraries/weblinks/asian.asp
Find links to - Overviews | Timelines | Statistics | Biographies | Cambodian Americans | Chinese Americans | East Indian Americans | Filipino Americans | Japanese Americans | Korean Americans | Vietnamese Americans
QUESTIONS
Where can I find a membership application to the
Where and when the exhibition is: GOLDEN FANTASIES: JAPANESE SCREENS FROM
I want to hear tracks from the album, Music of the Shakuhachi (FW04218). Who is the performer? What HPL database offers this and musical excerpts from cultures all around the world?
In
- Search Occupation combined with Ethnicity: Asian American (Do not select a Nationality).
- Do the search for three different occupations of your choice; (i.e.: Chemist and Asian American - If no results, try another one).
- List 5 names (if fewer than five, then list what you have) from each of your three occupation searches.
- Select one name from each list and provide a one sentence description of this person, including ethnic origin, occupation and one other significant piece of information of your choice (You should have three names total for this part of the exercise)
How are rice,
Using an HPL Database (Your choice and does not have to be one in this month’s list) find a description of Falun Gong and provide the citation. Then find a news story in the Houston Chronicle database that involves the Falun Gong and the Montrose area in
How many people of Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander live in your Zip Code area?
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For questions 1 & 2 I found the answers from Asia Society. The Asia Society Texas Center is located at 4505 Post Oak Place, Suite 205 Houston, Texas 77027. A person may apply for membership there and on line. The society has programs involving arts and culture, business and policy, education, health and environment. It is the passport to better understanding of the more than 30 countries that comprise Asia.
As for the Golden Fantasies, this exhibition was held at Asia Society and Museum at 725 Park Avenue at 70th St. in New York City from January 13, 2004 to August 15, 2004.
3. For Music of the Shakuhachi FW04218 I found 2 entries in the Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, both have the performer Yasuda Shinpu (Kotokan)(Ajikan) and (ChA/shi). Perhaps someone can guide me to the HPL database because all I found was Smithsonian etc. again.
3. I may be wrong, but we are receiving alot of music in different languages (world language collection), and we could be getting this cd.
Following directions for question 4, I chose Diana Chang as an educator. Diana is a poet, writer, and painter and best known for her 6 novels written between 1956 and 1978. THE FRONTIERS OF LOVE deals in oblique terms with the rift between Chinese and Euro-Chinese. She was born in New York City.
The second person I chose was Jennifer Lee as a teacher. I did not find anything for high school teacher. But Jennifer was born in Seoul, Korea and became a naturalized citizen. Her writings include Civility in the City and a work in progress is Asian American Youth. She is currently an associate professor of socioloy at the University of California at Palo Alto, Ca.
The 3rd person I chose was Eugene Huu-Chau Trinh-physicist, astronaut. Eugene was born in Saigon, Viet Nam, educated in Paris and then came to the US to attend Columbia University. He became the payload specialist aboard NASA's first long duration space shuttle flight in June 1992.
5. In the HANDBOOK OF TEXAS ONLINE under Japanese I found the article concerning rice, Japan, and Texas along with the most successful sights founded by Seito Saibara in Webster (Harris County) 1903, and Kichimatsu Kishi at Terry (Orange County) near Beaumont.
6. I searched several places for this and finally looked up Falun gong in the Encyclopedia Britanica on line. There I found that the Chinese government considers this a cult. Falun gong seems to be a Chinese spiritual movement founded by Li Hongzhi in 1992 and its teachings draw from the Asian religious traditions of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese folklore as welll as those of Western New Age movments.
Looking into the Houston Chroncle database I found an article dated July 20, 2001 "Exercising Liberty/Members of Falun Gong can protest safely in Houston; (3 star edition). I guess I should have remembered that, since I do live in Montrose and I do remember there was a demonstration at the Chinese Consulate which was then situtated on Montrose.
7. In the US Census Bureau American Factfinder under my zip code (77006) Asian (800) Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander (7).
[QUESTION 1:]
Where can I find a membership application to the Asia Society Texas Center? Where in Texas is the center located, and what does the center do?
I went to the Asia Society website (www.asiasociety.org) and clicked on “Membership” and then clicked on “Become a Member” (at the bottom of the page, in red). Next, I clicked on “Texas” for membership information, and the application is right there on the webpage. To find the Texas Center, return to the Asia Society homepage, and click on “Texas” (bottom right-hand side) to find the center in our state. The center is located here in Houston on 4605 Post Oak Place, Ste. 205, Houston, TX 77027. According to the website, the Texas Center “has been conceived as a place to showcase ‘all things Asian’ and will include meeting and educational rooms, a multi-use theatre, exhibition gallery, gardens, reception spaces, and a tea room.
[QUESTION 2:]
Where and when the exhibition is: GOLDEN FANTASIES: JAPANESE SCREENS FROM NEW YORK COLLECTIONS being held?
Since I did not know which resource to use initially, I performed a google search for “Golden Fantasies,” which directed me to the Asia Society website. On that site, I clicked on the press release to view more information on the exhibition, which had a showing at the Asia Society and Museum in New York City from January 13, 2004 – June 27, 2004. (If I could turn back time…)
[QUESTION 3:]
I want to hear tracks from the album, Music of the Shakuhachi (FW04218). Who is the performer? What HPL database offers this and musical excerpts from cultures all around the world?
From the HPL database list, select Music under “Find Information by Category” and select Smithsonian Global Sound, an HPL database that includes musical excerpts from cultures around the world. There, you can search for the album, whose performer is Yasuda Shinpu (Kotokan)
[QUESTION 4:]
In Biography Resource Center, use the “Biographical Facts Search” option:
• Search Occupation combined with Ethnicity: Asian American (Do not select a Nationality).
• Do the search for three different occupations of your choice; (i.e.: Chemist and Asian American - If no results, try another one).
• List 5 names (if fewer than five, then list what you have) from each of your three occupation searches.
Select one name from each list and provide a one sentence description of this person, including ethnic origin, occupation and one other significant piece of information of your choice (You should have three names total for this part of the exercise)
Search results for Asian-American and Singer:
Carrere, Tia (American movie actor, 1967-)
Fu, Haijing (American opera singer, 1957-)
Itami, Juzo (Japanese film director, 1933-1997)
Lennon, Sean (American rock musician, 1975-)
Ono, Yoko (American artist, 1933-)
Musician Sean Lennon was born in New York City and was only five years old when Mark David Chapman murdered his father, John Lennon, outside their Dakota apartment off Central Park.
Search results for Asian-American and Director:
Chiang, Doug (American movie art director, 1962-)
Choy, Christine (American filmmaker, 1954-)
Itami, Juzo (Japanese film director, 1933-1997)
Lee, Ang (American film director, 1954-)
Mako (American actor, 1933-2006)
Ang Lee is the Taiwanese-born director whose films include Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Eat Drink Man Woman; Sense and Sensibility; The Ice Storm, and Brokeback Mountain.
Search results for Asian-American and Comedian:
Cho, Margaret (American comedian, 1968-)
Morita, Pat (American actor, 1932-2005)
Margaret Cho is a San Francisco-born Comedian, author, actor, and producer whose parents “although very conservative Koreans, really trusted gays and lesbians to hold the key to culture," according to Cho, and she adds that "since they could not afford charm school, they sent me to drag queens."
[QUESTION 5:]
How are rice, Japan and Texas connected and when did it all start? What is the significance of Saibara and Kishi? (Suggested source: Handbook of Texas Online)
An important event in the development of the Texas Gulf Coast rice industry was the introduction of seed imported from Japan in 1904.
Japanese rice production began at Webster in Harris County under the direction of Seito Saibara, his family, and thirty original colonists. The Saibara family has been credited with establishing the Gulf Coast rice industry.
The two most successful sites that grew rice in Texas in the early 1900s were at Webster (Harris County), near Houston, founded by Seito Saibara in 1903 and at Terry (Orange County), near Beaumont, established by Kichimatsu Kishi in 1907 (see KISHI COLONY, TEXAS, and RICE CULTURE).
[QUESTION 6:]
Using an HPL Database (Your choice and does not have to be one in this month’s list) find a description of Falun Gong and provide the citation. Then find a news story in the Houston Chronicle database that involves the Falun Gong and the Montrose area in Houston.
Again, I did not know which site to begin searching for information, so I googled “Falun Gong” and found that it is a spiritual practice (Wikipedia). Next, I did a Houston Chronicle search for Falun Gong and Montrose and came across the article, “EXERCISING LIBERTY / Members of Falun Gong can protest safely in Houston” (Jul 20, 2001, pg. 38). To find a description of Falun Gong from our databases (not Wikipedia), I used Academic Search Complete and found the following article: Falun Gong: 1992 - 2005. By: Shizhong Chen. Chinascope, Jul2005, p9-27, 19p; (AN 18536098).
[QUESTION 7:]
How many people of Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander live in your Zip Code area?
I went to www.census.gov and entered my zip code (77006) under Population Finder. Next, I clicked on Fact Sheet to view detailed data for this particular zip code. According to the 2000 Census, there were 800 people of Asian ancestry and 7 people of Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander descent in my zip code.
6. On CNN.com/Asia on=line there is an article (4/9/09) entitled "Commentary-Bashing China is not the answer" written by Ling-chi Wang (professor emeritus of Asian American & Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley) in which Wang mentioned Falun Gong. He stated simply and I quote "that the Olympic torch had attracted well-financed, organized protests representing various single-issue groups that normally do not even work togehter." The next paragraph names several groups and among them Falun Gong.
1. I first went to the website
http//www.asiasociety.org/
Then I scrolled down to "Asia Society Worldwide". From there I selected "Texas". I scrolled to the bottom of the page where it revealed "Texas Center membership application".
3. First I clicked on "Music of the Shakuhachi". I noticed the performer's name at the top of the page, Yasuda Shinpu. I went back to the database list and found that the "Smithsonian Global Sound" database offers musical excerpts from cultures around the world.
5. First I went to the website
http://www.tshaonline.org/
Then I selected the "Education" tab. At the top of the page, I selected "Texas Handbook Online" and in the space provided I typed in "rice, Japan, Texas". From there I selected the second article titled "Handbook of Texas Online - Japanese" where the answer was revealed.
7. I went to http://factfinder.census.gov
Then I went to the section labeled "Fast Access to Information" and typed in my zip code, "77080". The answer is 2,332.
On question #1 I got on www.asiasociety.org/visit/texas and I found the application at the bottom of the front page. The organization is located at 4605 post oak place. It serves as a forum to discuss issues related to Asia. On question #3 the performer is Yasuada Shinpu and I found it in the website named Smithsonian global sound.On question #4 I found info on the following 3 individuals. Paul W.Chu currently a professor at the University of Houston,he has been a pioneer experimenter in the field of solid state physics. The second individual is Gary Locke born in Seattle Washington, he became a 2 term governor of the state of Washington from 1996-2004. The next person was Tia Carrere born in Hawaii in 1967, she has acted in several in several movies beginning in the early
90's. Question #5 According to the Handbook of Texas Online in 1904 rice seed was imported from Japan to Texas. The 2 most successful rice colonies were run in 1904 in Webster by Seito Saibara,and in Beaumont in 1907 by Kichimatsu Kishi. On question #7 I used a web site called zipskinny to find that the population of my zip code was 18,875. According to this site, 4.2% of this pop was asian. That figure then comes out to 792 people.
Question 1: I found the answer by accessing the Asia Society website. The link to locations is on the lower right hand side of the page. Clicking on the link labeled Texas brought up information regarding the Asia Society's Center in Texas. It happens to be located in Houston. This same page contained information about the center's purpose, as well as link to the membership application.
Question 2: I made a false start looking thru the Dept. of Labor's website. I finally went back to the Asia Society's website and began looking thru the calendar link. I searched the exhibits page for the term "Golden Fantasies" and found nothing. I then began looking thru the link for future exhibitions and again found nothing. When I began examining past exhibitions, I finally ran across the exhibit which was held from January 13, 2004 to August 15, 2004.
Question 3: I checked the "Smithsonian Global Sound" database. I entered the the term "Shakuhachi" in the advanced search toolbar at the top of the web page. The first search result returned was the album. The artist is listed as being Yasuda Shinpu.
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