Asian Diaspora Images

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Explore Time Asia's multimedia site (with interactive maps and testimonies by authors we are studying such as Gish Jen's "Does Nature or Nurture Decide Who We Are?") and learn more about the Asian Diaspora--a significant cultural and economic force in our globalized world.
	Chinese workers toll in California mines. (Photo credit: California State Library). Click on the photo to view the timeline of Asian America 1800-1850.
	Valley line construction between Bakersfield and Los Angeles. (Photo Credit: California State Railroad Museum) Click on the photo to view the timeline of Asian America 1851-1900 and view documentary video clips depicting the Snake River Massacre, the Chinese building the railroad, and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
	Immigration service officers interrogate an arrival from China at San Francisco's Angel Island Immigration Station. (Photo Credit: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration) Click on the photo to view the timeline of Asian America 1901-1950 and view documentary video clips depicting various parts of that history, including how Congress repeals all Chinese exclusion laws in 1943.
	Jerry Yang came to America from Taiwan. Later he founded Yahoo!, one of the most successful Internet companies in the country. (Photo Credit: AP/Wide World Photos) Click on the photo to view video clips depicting Immigration Reform Act and Asian Americans' stories. Read an interview with the writer Gish Jen.
	M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang, directed by Farley Richmond, staged in the Stony Brook Theatre, New York (1992). Scenic Designer: Dunsi Dai.
	Born in Los Angeles, the Asian-American playwright David Henry Hwang is the son of immigrant Chinese American parents. Educated at Stanford University (B.A. in English, 1979), he became interested in theater after attending plays at the American Conservatory in San Francisco. Hwang attended the Yale University School of Drama from 1980 to 1981. Click here for a chronology and a brief biography of Hwang (Credit: The Meyer Literature Site by Bedford/St. Martin's .
	(Left) Asian-American author Gish Jen (Right) Jen visited Hong Kong (March 10-13, 2004) and participated in the Hong Kong Literary Festival, sponsored by the U.S. Consulate. Jen signs her book for a young Hong Kong fan after her speech. Click on the photo to enlarge it.



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