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Connie Young Yu (born June 19, 1941) (Chinese: 虞容儀芳; pinyin: Yú Róng Yífāng) is a Chinese American writer, activist, historian, and lecturer.. She has written and contributed to many articles and books, notably including Profiles in Excellence: Peninsula Chinese Americans, Chinatown San Jose, U.S.A., and Voices from the Railroad: Stories by Descendants of Chinese Railroad Workers.
The vast majority of Chinese in California were from various districts on the west side of the Pearl River Delta, in Guangdong province. Thus, the first huiguan, or ui-kun, as it was locally known [12] in Cantonese San Francisco, the Sam Yap (Chinese: 三邑; pinyin: sānyì; Jyutping: sam1 jap1; lit. 'Three counties') Company, emerged in 1851.
Look Tin Eli (陸潤卿) – co-founder of the Canton Bank of San Francisco (1907-1926) and one of the prime movers in the rebuilding of Chinatown after the 1906 quake; Li Lu (李录) – hedge fund manager and founder and chairman of Himalaya Capital; Dominic Ng (吴建民) – CEO and president of East West Bank (1992– )
Yung, Judy and the Chinese Historical Society San Francisco's Chinatown Images of America, Chinese Historical Society, 2006. ISBN 978-07385-3130-4; Ki Longfellow, China Blues, Eio Books 2012, ISBN 0-9759255-7-1; Barbassa, Juliana. "SF Chinatown Still Home to Young and Old." Associated Press at The Washington Post. Friday November 17, 2006.
The Chinese Historical Society of America, since 1963, is a non-profit, and the first organization established in the US to preserve, promote and present the history, heritage, culture and legacy of Chinese in America through exhibitions, education, and research; the Museum is located in San Francisco's original Chinatown on Clay Street.
Membership in the male-only, private Bohemian Club takes a variety of forms, with membership regularly offered to new university presidents and to military commanders stationed in the San Francisco Bay Area. Regular, full members are usually wealthy and influential men who pay full membership fees and dues, and who must often wait 15 years for ...
San Francisco, California has the highest per capita concentration of Chinese Americans of any major city in the United States, at an estimated 21.4%, or 172,181 people, and contains the second-largest total number of Chinese Americans of any U.S. city. San Francisco's Chinatown was established in the 1840s, making it the oldest Chinatown in ...
After her husband died in 2018, Yung moved back to her hometown San Francisco. [4] Yung appears in the 2021 documentary The Six, in which she explains the significance of a Chinese poem written by RMS Titanic survivor Fong Wing Sun, and Chinese poetry written by Chinese immigrants while being held at Angel Island in the 1920s and 1930s.