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The word "settlers" evokes images of wagon trains from the East rolling over the Great Plains. But settlers also arrived from the other East--Far East. In 1870, Chinese made up ten percent of Montana's territorial population. And at the turn of the…

Tells the stories of the Asian American garment workers whose contributions and struggles made Seattle the outerwear production capital of the world for nearly a century. Includes interviews with many of the women who worked in this industry.

Examines the pain and anguish that racism has caused in the lives of North American men of Asian, European, Latin and African descent. Out of their confrontations and struggles to understand and trust each other emerges an emotional and insightful…

Using music, still photographs, and video footage, this documentary presents an historical record of the fateful day of September 11th. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and other members of his staff, such as Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik and…

The inhabitants of Seattle's International District, a unique neighborhood where Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino Americans have come together as a political and social force, tell the story of the Asian immigrants who came to America, but seldom…

The rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss--Sister Ping--and the intricate human trafficking network she created from her business in New York City's Chinatown, together with a panoramic tale about the gangland gunslingers who worked…

Throughout the late eighties and nineties, a gang of young Asian refugees cut a bloody swath through New York's Chinatown.

In 1784, passengers on the ship Empress of China became the first Americans to land in China, and the first to eat Chinese food. Today there are over 40,000 Chinese restaurants across the United States -- by far the most plentiful among all our…

"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…