Yuan Tseh Lee is a Taiwanese chemist. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California,Berkeley. He was the first Taiwanese Nobel Prize laureate who,along with the Hungarian-Canadian John C. Polanyi and American Dudley R. Herschbach,won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 "for their contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes".
Wang Dan is a leader of the Chinese democracy movement and was one of the most visible student leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. He holds a PhD in history from Harvard University,and from August 2009 to February 2010,Wang taught cross-strait history at Taiwan's National Chengchi University as a visiting scholar. He then taught at National Tsing Hua University until 2015.
Asian American Studies is an academic field originating in the 1960s,which critically examines the history,issues,sociology,religion,experiences,culture,and policies relevant to Asian Americans. It is closely related to other Ethnic Studies fields,such as African American Studies,Latino Studies,and Native American Studies.
Henry Liu,often known by his pen name Chiang Nan,was a Taiwanese-American writer and journalist. He was a vocal critic of the Kuomintang,then the single ruling party of the Republic of China in Taiwan,and was most famous for writing an unauthorized biography of Chiang Ching-kuo,then president of the Republic of China. He later became a naturalized citizen of the United States,and resided in Daly City,California,where he was assassinated by Bamboo Union members who had been reportedly trained by the Kuomintang's military intelligence division.
Jerome Alan Cohen is a professor of law at New York University School of Law,an expert in Chinese law,a adjunct senior fellow for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations,and serves as "of counsel" at the international law firm Paul,Weiss,Rifkind,Wharton &Garrison LLP.
Renee Tajima-Peña is an American filmmaker whose work focuses on immigrant communities,race,gender and social justice. Her directing and producing credits include the documentaries Who Killed Vincent Chin?,No Más Bebés,My America...or Honk if You Love Buddha,Calavera Highway,Skate Manzanar,Labor Women and the 5-part docuseries Asian Americans.
The history of the University of California,Berkeley begins on October 13,1849,with the adoption of the Constitution of California,which provided for the creation of a public university. On Charter Day,March 23,1868,the signing of the Organic Act established the University of California,with the new institution inheriting the land and facilities of the private College of California and the federal funding eligibility of a public agricultural,mining,and mechanical arts college.
Feminism in China refers to the collection of historical movements and ideologies in time aimed at redefining the role and status. women in China. Feminism in China began in the 20th century in tandem with the Chinese Revolution. Feminism in modern China is closely linked with socialism and class issues. Some commentators believe that this close association is damaging to Chinese feminism and argue that the interests of the party are placed before those of women.
Carolyn Leilani Yu Zhen Lau (aka Carolyn Lau) (born 1946 Honolulu,Hawaii) is an American poet.
Chen Ziming and Wang Juntao were arrested in late 1989 for their involvement in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. Chinese authorities alleged they were the "black hands" behind the movement. Both Chen and Wang rejected the allegations made against them. They were put on trial in 1990 and sentenced to 13 years in prison.
Nayan Shah is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History at University of Southern California. He received his doctoral degree in history at the University of Chicago and previously worked as a professor of history at University of California,San Diego and Binghamton University.
Liu Gang is a Chinese-born American aerospace engineer,computer scientist,optical physicist,political activist,and writer. He founded the Beijing Students' Autonomous Federation. He was a prominent student leader at the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Liu holds a M.A. in physics from Peking University and a M.A. in computer science from Columbia University. After his exile to the United States in 1996,Liu studied technology and physics at Bell Labs in New Jersey. Liu was employed at Morgan Stanley as a Wall Street IT analyst.
The Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) rose in 1968 as a coalition of ethnic student groups on college campuses in California in response to the Eurocentric education and lack of diversity at San Francisco State College and University of California,Berkeley. The TWLF was instrumental in creating and establishing Ethnic Studies and other identity studies as majors in their respective schools and universities across the United States.
The Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution is celebrated on January 30 in California and a growing number of additional states to commemorate the birthday of Fred Korematsu,a Japanese-American civil rights activist best known for resisting the internment of Japanese Americans. It also recognizes American civil liberties and rights under the Constitution of the United States. It is the first day in U.S. history named after an Asian American.
Asian American activism broadly refers to the political movements and social justice activities involving Asian Americans. Since the first wave of Asian immigration to the United States,Asians have been actively engaged in social and political organizing. The early Asian American activism was mainly organized in response to the anti-Asian racism and Asian exclusion laws in the late-nineteenth century,but during this period,there was no sense of collective Asian American identity. Different ethnic groups organized in their own ways to address the discrimination and exclusion laws separately. It was not until the 1960s when the collective identity was developed from the civil rights movements and different Asian ethnic groups started to come together to fight against anti-Asian racism as a whole.
Yue Xin is a Chinese student activist and graduate from Peking University who disappeared on 23 August 2018,following her participation in the Jasic labour dispute. A Marxist and feminist,she was known for her advocacy of labour and women's rights prior to her disappearance.
