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Asian of the Century was a centurial issue of the 20th century held by American AsianWeek magazine and CNN in 1999 that features and profiles Asian persons who have topped their respective fields. Those people featured are considered as "The person who contributed most to the betterment of Asia in the past 100 years'". [ 1 ]
Only Asian American naval recipient of the Medal of Honor; Eleanor Valentin – rear admiral (lower half), Medical Corps, U.S. Navy. Commander, Naval Medical Support Command [33] Francis B. Wai – captain, U.S. Army. Only Chinese American to have been awarded the Medal of Honor; Ehren Watada – first lieutenant, U.S. Army.
Firsts by Asian-Americans in various fields have historically marked footholds, often leading to more widespread cultural change. The shorthand phrase for them is "breaking the color barrier". [ 4 ] One commonly cited example is that of Wataru Misaka , who became the first person of color, [ 5 ] and the first Asian-American, to be a National ...
Huping Ling (令狐萍) – professor of History at Truman State University, author; Liu Kwang-ching (劉廣京) – Historian of late imperial China; University of California, Davis. Betty Lee Sung (宋李瑞芳) – former professor of Asian-American Studies at City College of New York; 'leading authority' on Chinese Americans [26] [27]
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The program featured the results of a survey that asked Japanese people to choose their favorite great person from history. The show featured several re-enactments of scenes from the lives of the people on the list. [2] The survey asked Japanese people to name their most-liked historical figures, not the most influential.
The Center for Asian American Media has become a big supporter of Cho’s and commissioned her to make several cookie portraits of people featured in a PBS documentary series called “Asian ...
Asians have been the recipients of all six award categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economics. The first Asian recipient, Rabindranath Tagore, was awarded the Literature Prize in 1913. In 1930, C. V. Raman became the first Asian recipient of a Nobel Prize in one of the sciences. The most Nobel Prizes ...