Browse Items (10694 total)

  • Collection: Library

Shift to Mandarin reflects changes in communities

How Cantonese used to be spoken by majority of Chinese Americans decades ago, to Mandarin being the language most Chinese Americans speak now. It's not only limited to the West Coast, but also the East Coast. It also creates divides in the Chinese…

Californians re-enact Japanese internment

Re-enactment of the internment in Watsonville, CA that include a production called Liberty Lost...Lessons in Loyalty.

Reliving WWII Internment

Discusses the Watsonville, CA re-enactment of the Japanese internment and presentation called Libery Lost... Lessons in Loyalty.

Sixty years later, Japanese Americans re-create World War II internment experience.

Article on Watsonville, CA re-enactment of Japanese internment and presentation of Liberty Lost...Lessons in Loyalty. Artist Ikemoto''s paintings are part of the program.

Grim Past of the Ellis Island of the West

An Angel Island Immigration Center Foundation project uncovers how chinese immigrants faced discrimination at Angel Island, the West Coast immigration center near San Francisco, California due to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Archaeological…

In the Mansion of Confucius' Descendants: An Oral History

The history of the house and family of China's famous sage in Qufu, China.

Confucian Wisdom for the 21st Century: a Selected Rendition

"This is a new English presentation of Confucian wisdom as contained in the Four books (Si shu) .... Confucius was not a philosopher, for his thoughts and truths were not derived by logic. Rather, his wisdom reflected good common sense and insight…

Letter to the Sansei

A reflection on the end of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, the U.S. government's historic apology to nearly 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent who were uprooted and interned during World War II.

The River of Time: Short Stories

A collection of short stories that attempts to cast a light on what it means to be Japanese American.