The Chinese-American Vote in California amid Extreme Partisanship and Anti-Asian Hostility
-- with Tom Campbell
On July 1, 2021, we held a webinar to examine the role that Chinese Americans have played and can play in our political system. Tom Campbell, former US Congressman and UC Berkeley dean, joined us for an in-depth discussion on the current status of California politics, whether there is a need for a new political party to challenge the seeming monopoly that the Democratic Party has on the state, and the role that Chinese-Americans and Asian-Americans play in state politics in this period of extreme partisanship and anti-Asian hostility.
Watch Recorded Video HERE
About Tom Campbell:
Tom Campbell served as Dean of the Fowler School of Law at Chapman University from 2011 to 2016. He came to Chapman in January 2009 as a visiting Presidential Fellow and Fletcher Jones Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law. Prior to joining Chapman, he was the Bank of America Dean and Professor of Business from 2002 to 2008 at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Tom was a Professor of Law at Stanford University from 1987-2002; Associate Professor at Stanford, 1983-1987; a member of the United States Congress from 1989-1993 and 1995-2001; a member of the California State Senate from 1993-1995; and the director of the California Department of Finance from 2004-2005. He has a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago, and a JD, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he also served as a member of the board of editors of the Harvard Law Review. He was a law clerk to United States Supreme Court Justice Byron White, and to US Court of Appeals Judge George E. MacKinnon; a White House Fellow; executive assistant to the Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice; and, director of the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission.
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Stream Chinatown Rising Documentary for FREE
Chinatown Rising captures the story of San Francisco's Chinatown and the Asian American activists who fought for the identity of the neighborhood across three decades.
The Cal Alumni Association Chinese Chapter is offering the chance to stream this revelatory documentary FREE during the 48 hour period from Friday, May 21st, 8:00pm PT to Sunday, May 23rd, 8 pm PT.
Synopsis of Chinatown Rising
Against the backdrop of the Civil Rights movement of the mid-1960s, a young San Francisco Chinatown resident armed with a 16mm camera and leftover film scraps from a local TV station, turned his lens onto his community. Totaling more than 20,000 feet of film (10 hours), Harry Chuck's exquisite unreleased footage has captured a divided community's struggles for self-determination. Chinatown Rising is a documentary film about the Asian-American movement from the perspective of the young residents on the front lines of their historic neighborhood in transition. Through publicly challenging the conservative views of their elders, their demonstrations and protests of the 1960s-1980s rattled the once quiet streets during the community's shift in power. Forty-five years later, in intimate interviews these activists recall their roles and experiences in response to the need for social change.
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Fireside Chat with Berkeley-Haas Dean Ann E. Harrison
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Time: 5:30 - 6:30 PM PDT
Location: Zoom
Moderator Ann Hsu (Chinese Chapter Board Member) and Dean Harrison chatted about the dean's personal background, her Berkeley experience as a student, professor and now dean, and a number of current issues facing Haas and Berkeley, including COVID-19, the Black Lives Matter movement, eroding relations with the EU and China, possible passage of ACA 5 which would reinstate affirmative action in admissions (effectively a repeal of Prop 209 which prohibits considering race, sex or ethnicity in admissions), and the Bamboo Ceiling that Asian Americans face in corporate America.
About Dean Ann Harrison:
Ann E. Harrison, the 15th dean of the Berkeley-Haas School of Business, is a renowned economist. One of the most highly-cited scholars globally on foreign investment and multinational firms, she is the author of dozens of journal articles, the editor of three books, and a winner of the prestigious Sun Yefang Prize by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2017 for co-authoring The Factory-Free Economy: Outsourcing, Servitization, and the Future of Industry. Harrison has deep Berkeley roots; she earned her bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley with a double major in economics and history as well as serving as a professor of Berkeley’s Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics from 2001 to 2011. Harrison returned to UC Berkeley from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School where she was a professor of multinational management and business economics and public policy. Prior to Wharton, she was the director of development policy at the World Bank, where she co-managed a team of 300 researchers and staff. Harrison has also held positions at Columbia Business School, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and the University of Paris. Harrison earned her PhD in economics from Princeton University. She also holds a DEUG (diplômed’étudesuniversitairesgénérales) from the University of Paris. Born in France, she is a dual citizen of the U.S. and France.
Are Chinese Americans Stuck In the Middle of US-China Conflict?
Watch the Recorded YouTube Event
Hear from Notable Chinese-American Civil Rights Expert, Frank Wu
Thursday, June 25, 2020
5:00 - 6:00 p.m. PDT
Watch the Recorded YouTube Event
As we enter a new era of heightened social, cultural, economic, and political tension between the United States and China of which the COVID-19 pandemic blame game and on-going trade war are but symptoms of a much broader conflict, are Chinese-Americans going to be, if not already, caught in the middle? Join us for enlightening online discussion with distinguished law professor and prominent Chinese-American civil rights expert as he draws upon his wealth of knowledge on this complex issue to tackle this question.
About the Speaker:
Frank H. Wu is President-designee of Queens College, City University of New York. He is a distinguished law professor who served as the William L. Prosser Distinguished Professor, the highest rank accorded a faculty member, at University of California Hastings College of Law. He previously served as Chancellor & Dean at the school. In April 2016, Professor Wu was elected as the Chair of Committee of 100, a non-partisan leadership organization of prominent Chinese-Americans in business, government, academia, and the arts. He held that office for two years prior to being named the group’s first-ever President. Professor Wu is the author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White. He received a B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University and a J.D. with honors from the University of Michigan.
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Chinatown Rising: A Documentary in Progress
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Harry Chuck (Director & Producer) and Josh Chuck (Co-Producer & Assistant Editor) shared their experience making the documentary, Chinatown Rising (www.chinatownrising.com), showed selected scenes, and answered questions from the audience. A buffet lunch was served.
When: Sunday, November 11, 2018, 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Where: Alumni House, UC Berkeley
Cost: $10 general; $5 current students (at the door)
Synopsis of Chinatown Rising
Against the backdrop of the Civil Rights movement of the mid-1960s, a young San Francisco Chinatown resident armed with a 16mm camera and leftover film scraps from a local TV station, turned his lens onto his community. Totaling more than 20,000 feet of film (10 hours), Harry Chuck's exquisite unreleased footage has captured a divided community's struggles for self-determination. Chinatown Rising is a documentary film about the Asian-American movement from the perspective of the young residents on the front lines of their historic neighborhood in transition. Through publicly challenging the conservative views of their elders, their demonstrations and protests of the 1960s-1980s rattled the once quiet streets during the community¡¯s shift in power. Forty-five years later, in intimate interviews these activists recall their roles and experiences in response to the need for social change.
Private Tour & Lunch at the C.V. Starr East Asian Library & Chang-Lin Tien Center for East Asian Studies
When: Sunday, May 20, 2018, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Where: C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Berkeley, CA
China's Bold Ambition: The Belt and Road Initiative
When: Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 6:30-8:30 PM
Where: Peony Seafood Restaurant, 388 9th Street #288, Oakland, CA
Speaker: Roger S. Dong, Lt Colonel, USAF (retired)
CAA Chinese Chapter 2017 Spring Banquet
When: Sunday, April 30, 2017, 6:00-9:00 PM
Where: Peony Seafood Restaurant, 388 9th Street #288, Oakland, CA