Introduction
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is celebrated in May to commemorate the contributions and heritage of people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent in the
Resources
http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/research/category/BIO_page.html
Search for biographical information and articles on notable Asian Americans by name or keyword, or use the Category Browse feature.
http://www.tshaonline.org/
Source includes articles on Asian ethnic groups in
http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/research/category/NEWS_page.html
Keep up with the latest news from around the world and in several languages online from major newspapers. English-language newspapers with an Asian outlook are also included.
http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/research/category/ALL_page.html#S
These online music collections are searchable by cultural group (e.g., Punjabi, Hawaiian, Japanese-American) or language (Cantonese, Indonesian, Hindi).
http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/research/category/WLC_page.html
Dragonsource (Chinese language only) Dragonsource Group is a Chinese content provider and a digital media corporation based in
Rosetta Stone - Online lessons for learning Chinese and Vietnamese, as well as for those learning English.
Web sites:
http://www.apaha.org/
Web site of the Houston-based organization that promotes awareness and appreciation of Asian cultural and ethnic groups. Includes news bulletins and archives as well as announcements of local events.
http://www.asiasociety.org/
Comprehensive Web site of the international pan-Asian organization that works to promote understanding and among the people of the
http://www.askasia.org/
An educational Web site produced by the Asia Society and aimed at students, children, and teachers interested in learning more about Asian cultures, history, and civilizations.
http://www.dol.gov/oasam/library/bib/asia.htm
A selected electronic bibliography Compiled by the Wirtz Labor Library Staff; U.S. Department of Labor
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race/api.html
Provides links to figures, tables, and reports on Asian and Pacific Islander populations in the
Related Source: American Factfinder - http://factfinder.census.gov
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/libtmpl.asp?url=/content/libraries/weblinks/asian.asp
Find links to - Overviews | Timelines | Statistics | Biographies | Cambodian Americans | Chinese Americans | East Indian Americans | Filipino Americans | Japanese Americans | Korean Americans | Vietnamese Americans
QUESTIONS
Where can I find a membership application to the
Where and when the exhibition is: GOLDEN FANTASIES: JAPANESE SCREENS FROM
I want to hear tracks from the album, Music of the Shakuhachi (FW04218). Who is the performer? What HPL database offers this and musical excerpts from cultures all around the world?
In
- Search Occupation combined with Ethnicity: Asian American (Do not select a Nationality).
- Do the search for three different occupations of your choice; (i.e.: Chemist and Asian American - If no results, try another one).
- List 5 names (if fewer than five, then list what you have) from each of your three occupation searches.
- Select one name from each list and provide a one sentence description of this person, including ethnic origin, occupation and one other significant piece of information of your choice (You should have three names total for this part of the exercise)
How are rice,
Using an HPL Database (Your choice and does not have to be one in this month’s list) find a description of Falun Gong and provide the citation. Then find a news story in the Houston Chronicle database that involves the Falun Gong and the Montrose area in
How many people of Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander live in your Zip Code area?
To post your answers, just click on the "comment" link at the bottom of this message.
13 comments:
The number of Asian, Native Hawaiian, other Pacific Islanders in my zip code--77018-is 236 alone
You find a membership application to the Asia Society Texas Center on the website of the Asia Society--www.asiasociety.org. The center in TX is located at 4605 Post Oak Place, Suite 205, Houston, Tx 77027-the center offers educational programs on Asia related programs yearly. It's a forum for viewpoints and and discussions on the topics of Asia related topics.
#1.To find membership info for the asia society Texas, go to the society’s website : www.asiasociety.org
Click on link for membership:
https://www.asiasociety.org/membership/texas_membership.pl
It is located at 4605 Post Oak Place, Ste. 205, Houston, TX
It has served as a forum for viewpoints and discussions on Asia-related topics, offering more than 100 programs each year.
#2.
The screen exhibition was originally on display from January 13, 2004 – August 15, 2004 at the Asia Society and Museum NYC location. Now the exhibition is available for viewing online at http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/japanesescreens/scr09.html
#3.
To find these musical tracks, click on the database Smithsonian Global Sound. Choose album search and enter the name of the album. The performer is Yasuda Shinpu
#4. Using Biography Resource Center-
Artists:
1)Jose Aruego-A children’s book author and illustrator born in the Philippines is known for his imaginative and witty illustrations.
2) Lynda Barry-A cartoonist born in Wisconsin to a Filipino mother and a Norwegian-Irish father. Her moving graphic novel, One Hundred Demons is based on her childhood experiences.
3) Dong Kingman-An artist born in California in 1911, but raised in Hong Kong and died in 2000, in New York City. His watercolors are included in such museums as the Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
# 5. Using The Handbook of Texas Online- An important event in the development of the Texas Gulf Coast rice industry was the introduction of seed imported from Japan in 1904…Japanese rice production began at Webster in Harris County under the direction of Seito Saibara
#6. Used Proquest database to find an article in the Houston Chronicle on Nov. 16, 2001, titled China takes Falun Gong fight overseas / Local followers say consulates cracking down on page 37.
7. At www.census.gov , look to the right side of the page, the Datafinder section, and enter zipcode. From these results, click on Fact Sheet. The results for the zip code 77023 are:
477 Asian (3.6 %) and 9 Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander (0.1%).
q#1. www.apaha.org
click on link: Asia Society Texas Center. Location: 4605 Post Oak Place, Suite 205 Houston, TX 77027
What does the center do? Read home page. Click on link: Texas Center membership aplication.
q#2. Searched on www.asiasociety.org
Calendar>Exhibitions: not found. Searched on google: January 13, 2004 - August 15, 2004 at Asia Society and Museum. Headquarters: 725 Park Ave (at 70th Street) NYC
q#3. HPL DB Smithsonian Global Sound: On Search type: Music of the Shakuhashi. Result: 5 entries. Performers: Yasuda Shinpu (Kotokan) (FW04218)
q#4. HPL-DB Biographical Facts Search: 1. Sociologist - Asian American: 2 entries.
- Lee, Jennifer (1968-): Born in Seoul, Korea; naturalized US citizen. PhD. Works at U. of California-Irvine. Writings: Civility in the City, 2002; and Asian American Youth, 2004.
-Lee, Rose Hum (American sociologist, 1904-1964)
2. Martial artists - Asian American: 5 entries.
-Hirabayashi, Keith Cooke (American actor, 1959-): Born in Seattle, WA. Married, one son. Since 1988 thru 2003 has 13 film appearances. Most popular characters: Reptile in "Mortal Kombat", 1995; and as Sub-Zero in "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation", 1997.
-Hu, Kelly (American actor, 1967?-)
-Lee, Bruce (American martial artist, 1940-1973)
-Reyes, Ernie, Jr. (American actor, 1972-)
-Rhee, Jhoon (American martial artist, 1932-)
3.Meteorologist - Asian American: 4 entries on Fujita, Tetsuya (1920-1998) Current 2007. Born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan. Died in Chicago, IL. A master of observation, Fujita is considered one of the best meteorological detectives. Began investigating the rubble at Hiroshima and Nagasaki; developed the concept of "thundernose", and the concept of "Mesoanalysis." Created the F-Scale for tornado damage discovering "downbursts and microbursts." The National Weather Association named their research award the T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement Award.
q#5.www.tshaonline.org
Search: rice Japan Texas. Result: 37 entries/articles. Rice Culture:"An important event in the development of the Texas Gulf Coast rice industry was the introduction of seed imported from Japan in 1904. Seed rice had previously come from Honduras or the Carolinas..." Significance of Saibara (in the same article): "Japanese rice production began at Webster in Harris County under the direction of Seito Saibara, his family, and thirty original colonists. The Saibara family has been credited with establishing the Gulf Coast rice industry". Search: Kishi Saibara. Result: article Japanese: "The two most successful sites were at Webster (Harris County), near Houston, founded by Seito Saibara in 1903 and at Terry (Orange County), near Beaumont, established by Kishimatsu Kishi in 1907 (see: Kishi Colony, Texas and rice culture)".
q#6. On HPL-DB Fast Facts>Encyclopedias> Britannica Online School Edition>Search: Falun Gong (2008).
On Houston Chronicle DB: Search under: Falun Gong Montrose. Results: 4 entries/articles. Entry #2: "Exercising liberty / members of Falun Gong can protest safely in Houston" Houston Chronicle. July 20, 2001, p.38: "...Chinese consulate on Montrose Blvd...".
q#7: On www.census.gov
Search by zip code: 77006. Click on Fact Sheet link: Result: Asian: 800 (4.2%); Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander: 7 (0.0%).
To find info on Golden Fantasies exhibition, go to the Asia Society webpage. You need to click on Past Exhibitions to find it, and it ran in NYC from Jan 13-Aug. 15, 2004.
There is still an online display you can view on the Asia Society webpage.
To listen to soundtracks of Music of the Shakuhachi, go to our Research link, find the category Music, click on it, find Smithsonian Global Sound, enter the album name, and the performer here was Yasuda Shinpu. This database offers a link to music excerpts from around the world.
The Handbook of Texas online has a fine article on the link between Japan and Texas. By using the term "Japanese" I found the article which told about Mr. Saibara and Mr. Kishi. They both launched rice growing sites in TX
in 1903 and later in 1907. Each of these men brought families and tenants to build rice farms.
Assignment Due April 30
Asian Pacific American Heritage
Question 1:
Where can I find a membership application to the Asia Society Texas Center?
Where in Texas is the center located, and what does the center do?
www.asiasociety.org/ click on “memberships” membership Texas
I got a more satisfactory answer when I googled Asia + Society + Texas which took me to www.asiasociety.org/visit/texas/.
Question 2:
Where and when is the exhibition “Golden Fantasies: Japanese Screens From New York Collections” being held?
Press Display (HPL databases newspapers) type title as keywords into the search box
Question 3:
I want to hear tracks from the album Music of the Shakuhachi (FW04218). Who is the performer? What HPL database offers this and musical excerpts from cultures all around the world?
HPL website Research Smithsonian Global Sound enter title under “Search for music you want to hear”.
Question 4:
Biography Resource Center “Biographical Facts Search” search Occupation combined with Ethnicity (not Nationality).
I. Occupation = Agriculturist (one result)
A. Lon S. Hatamiya
Ethnic Origin = Asian American
Successful careers in public business and private service. Appointed administrator
of Agricultural Marketing Service of the United States Department of Agriculture
by President Bill Clinton in 1993.
II. Occupation = Musician (multiple results)
A. Tashiko Kiyoshi
B. Tia Carrere
C. Myung-Whun Chung
D. Jahja Ling
E. Yo-Yo Ma
Ethnic Origin = Asian American
Renowned cellist. Has been playing since age four. First public recital at University of Paris at age five.
III. Occupation = Writer (multiple results)
A. Miena Alexander
B. Lynda Barry
C. Joan Chen
D. Connie Chung
E. Amy Tan
Ethnic Origin = Asian American
Popular novelist who wrote The Joy Luck Club (1989) which was the winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award.
Question 5:
How are rice, Japan and Texas connected and when did it all start? What is the significance of Saibara and Kishi? (Suggested source: Handbook of Texas Online)
Rice seed was imported to Texas from Japan in 1904. The Saibara family is credited with establishing the Gulf Coast rice industry; they began farming at Webster in Harris County. Kishi, also, established a site near Beaumont in 1907.
Question 6:
Using an HPL Database (does not have to be one on this month’s list) find a description of Falun Gong and provide the citation. Then find a news story in the Houston Chronicle database that involves the Falun Gong and the Montrose area in Houston.
Part 1: Went to History Databases Not in Handbook of Texas Online Found and article in Military and Intelligence Database In World History Collection, found articles titles about Falun Gong Wikipedia provided definition, background, and origins.
Part 2:
Houston Chronicle – Historical text search on Falun AND Gong AND Montrose The Chinese Consulate is on Montrose Blvd. RE: Chinese persecution of spiritual movement, Falun Gong.
Question 7:
How many people of Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander decent live in your Zip Code area?
Went to: Census Bureau failed to find answer
Asia Society Texas
failed to find answer
American Community Survey: Census ACS Main Access Data >Data Tables Data Profiles 2003 Texas got lost clicked on American FactFinder type in zip code select state
More direct route: www.census.gov/ Fact Finder enter zip code select state
Asian Pacific American Heritage Questions:
1. Where can I find a membership application for the Asia Society of Texas? Where in Texas is the center located and what does the center do?
Went to www.asiasociety.org (The Asia Society Website); clicked on Texas under “Asia Society Worldwide”; the address for the Texas Center was on the Texas page:
Asia Society Texas Center 4605 Post Oak Place, Ste. 205
Houston, TX 77027
At the bottom right hand corner is a link that says “Become a member.”
When this page came up I selected “Texas,” and the resulting pages walks you through to apply for a membership.
What does the Asia Center of Texas do? The following statement appears on the Asia Center of Texas website:
Since 1979, Asia Society Texas Center has served as a forum for viewpoints and discussions on Asia-related topics, offering more than 100 programs each year. These range from the topical and newsworthy—Asian economic forums, a post-tsunami first-hand USAID report, discussions of world health issues, or lectures on Asian border struggle—to the cultural and just plain fun – art exhibits and salons, "tastes of Asia" dinners, book signings and readings, dragon boat racing, and the annual Tiger Ball. Programming is provided each year in part by grants from generous foundations, the business community and individuals, largely through the Annual Fund campaign.
Our Programs include:
Arts and Culture | Business and Policy | Education | Health and Environment
For more information on our upcoming programs, click here.
Read Ambassador J. Thomas Schieffer's Remarks to the Asia Society Texas Center (Oct. 5, 2007)
To view our latest Newsletter, click here.
For a map to our office, click here
As one of ten Asia Society regional centers dotting the globe from New York to Mumbai, the Texas Center is located in Houston, Texas—one of America's fastest-growing international port cities and headquarters to an increasing number of corporations with business interests in Asia. Financially self-supporting, Asia Society Texas Center currently is in the midst of a $40 million building campaign that will create a world-class headquarters, destination and education space to be located in the Museum District (click here for map of location). Groundbreaking will take place in 2008, with formal dedication projected in 2010. Designed by internationally known architect Yoshio Taniguchi, this Texas Center has been conceived as a place to showcase "all things Asian" and will include meeting and educational rooms, a multi-use theatre, exhibition gallery, gardens, reception spaces, and a tea room. Membership in Asia Society Texas Center is for both the specialist and the simply curious. Each program provides a chance for members to enhance their knowledge, exchange views and network with others who share that interest in Asia, whether in business, public education, film, politics, history, travel or other areas. As a member of Asia Society Texas Center, you also can enjoy reciprocal privileges throughout Asia Society's international network.
2. When and where is the following exhibition: Golden Fantasies: Japanese Screens from New York Collections: I Went to Asian/Pacific American Heritage website (www.apaha.org) , but could not find anything related to the Japanese Screens exhibition. I then went to the Asia Society website (www.asiasociety.org) and input Golden Screens in the search field. The first hit generated was about the Screen exhibition.
When: January 13 - August 15, 2004. Where: Asia Society and Museum
725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street), New York City.
3. How to hear tracks from the album: Music of the Shakuhachi: Database with musical excerpts from cultures around the world: Smithsonian Global Sound. I went to this database on the HPL website; I input “Music of the Shakuhachi in the field entitled “Search for music you want to hear.” The following hit was elicited:
Performers: Yasuda Shinpu (Kotokan)
Album: Music of the Shakuhachi (FW04218)
Question 4. Biographical searches: Asian American and 3 occupations.
Asian American and Actor:
Cain, Dean (American actor, 1966-)
Carrere, Tia (American movie actor, 1967-)
Chao, Rosalind (American actor, 1949-)
Chen, Joan (American actor, 1961-)
Cho, Margaret (American comedian, 1968-)
Dean Cain: Actor, Asian American:
Best known for his role as Superman in the popular 1990s television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Dean Cain has built a solid acting career primarily working in television. One of his more prominent and praised film parts was as bad guy Chris Harrison in Out of Time (2003) opposite Denzel Washington.
Asian American and Singer:
Carrere, Tia (American movie actor, 1967-)
Fu, Haijing (American opera singer, 1957-)
Itami, Juzo (Japanese film director, 1933-1997)
Lennon, Sean (American rock musician, 1975-)
Ono, Yoko (American artist, 1933-)
Tia Carrere: Singer and Asian American
In 1992, Tia Carrere scored major roles in two Hollywood productions, and she hasn't paused for a break since. In the box-office success Wayne's World, she played Cassandra, a heavy-metal rock and roller and girlfriend of the main character, played by Mike Myers. In Rising Sun, a thriller based on the best-selling novel by Michael Crichton, she played a computer hacker and love interest of star Sean Connery.
Writer and Asian American:
Abdu'l-Baha (Iranian religious leader, 1844-1921)
Agha, Shahid Ali (American poet, 1949-2001)
Ai (American writer, 1947-)
Aki, Keiiti (American scientist, 1930-2005)
Alexander, Meena (Indian writer, 1951-)
Meena Alexander: Writer and Asian American
Poet, novelist, teacher, scholar, and memoirist Meena Alexander draws from her international experiences growing up in India and the Sudan, being educated in England, and finally moving to the United States. As a result, her work exhibits the influences of a multilingual and multicultural background. Alexander's memoir Fault Lines drew great critical acclaim when it was published. The author once told CA: "In Fault Lines, I move back and forth between India, the Sudan, and New York City. I have lived in the city since 1979 and it provides the framework within which I remember, within which I write, fabricate, make fictive worlds." As a result, as Lisa Nussbaum noted in Library Journal, the book crosses over the "fault lines" that are created by "the shifting ground of loyalties and identities" that develop from living on different continents and in different cultures.
5. Question on Rice, Japan and Texas, and Saibara and Kishi: I went to the Handbook of Texas Online, and input “Rice, Japan and Texas” in the search field. The following entry was elicited:
An important event in the development of the Texas Gulf Coast rice industry was the introduction of seed imported from Japan in 1904. Seed rice had previously come from Honduras or the Carolinas. At the invitation of the Houston Chamber of Commerce and the Southern Pacific Railroad, Japanese farmers were brought to Texas to advise local farmers on rice production, bringing with them seed as a gift from the emperor of Japan. The first three years' harvest, which produced an average of thirty-four barrels an acre compared with an average of eighteen to twenty barrels from native rice seed, was sold as seed to Louisiana and Texas farmers. C. J. Knapp, founder of the United States agricultural agent system, helped to overcome government regulation to bring seed rice into the country. Japanese rice production began at Webster in Harris County under the direction of Seito Saibara,qv his family, and thirty original colonists. The Saibara family has been credited with establishing the Gulf Coast rice industry.
I then returned to the web page with the search field and input “Kishi.” This rendered the following hit:
JAPANESE. The Japanese first moved to Texas in significant numbers after a fact-finding tour of the Gulf Coast by a consular official, Sadatsuchi Uchida, in 1902. Local officials and businessmen told Uchida that rice farmers from Japan would be especially welcome in Texas. Soon thereafter, various Japanese made at least thirty separate attempts to grow rice in different parts of the state. The two most successful sites were at Webster (Harris County), near Houston, founded by Seito Saibara in 1903 and at Terry (Orange County), near Beaumont, established by Kichimatsu Kishi in 1907 (see KISHI COLONY, TEXAS, and RICE CULTURE). By 1910 the Japanese population in Texas numbered 340, in contrast to thirteen in 1900. Saibara and Kishi, each of whom had been quite well off in Japan, traveled to Texas to settle. Saibara, a lawyer and a party politician, had been president of Doshisha University in Kyoto before immigrating to the United States; Kishi attended Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. Both brought families and tenants to help work the land; the tenants in time sent for their wives or, if single, arranged for "picture brides" to join them in Texas. As the two settlements prospered they attracted other Japanese, who purchased and operated rice farms nearby. After World War I,qv however, the rice market collapsed, nearly ruining the Japanese along the Gulf Coast. Some, like Kishi, switched to truck farming; others operated plot nurseries; still others left Texas. Meanwhile, in the second two decades of the twentieth century, another group of Japanese had come to Texas. Many were fleeing from the anti-Japanese agitation in California. They too farmed, but they generally settled in Cameron and Hidalgo counties, in the lower Rio Grande valley, and grew citrus fruit and vegetables
6. Provide a description of Falun Gong and a citation: I went to the Ask Asia website and entered falun gong into the search field, and received no hits. I then went to the Asia Society webpage, but could find no promising links or search fields. I then went to HPL’s database entitled Britannica Online Research Center, Public Library Edition, and entered Falun gong, eliciting the following article:
, also spelled Falungong , also called Falundafa controversial Chinese spiritual movement founded by Li Hongzhi in 1992; its adherents exercise ritually to obtain mental and spiritual renewal. The teachings of Falun Gong draw from the Asian religious traditions of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Chinese folklore as well as those of Western New Age movements. The movement's sudden emergence in the 1990s was a great concern to the Chinese government, which viewed Falun Gong as a cult.
The origins of the movement are found both in long-standing Chinese practices and in recent events. Qi Gong (Chinese: “Energy Working”), the use of meditation techniques and physical exercise to achieve both good health and peace of mind, has a long history in Chinese culture and religion; however, practitioners in modern China present these techniques as purely secular in an effort to escape official restrictions against independent religious activity. Nevertheless, in the late 20th century new masters appeared who taught forms of Qi Gong more clearly rooted in religion. The most influential of these, Li Hongzhi (born in 1951, according to followers, or in 1952, according to critics, who contend that Li “adjusted” his birthdate to lend it Buddhist spiritual significance), worked in law enforcement and corporate security before becoming the full-time spiritual leader of Falun Gong in 1992.
While in traditional Chinese Buddhism falun means the “wheel of law” or “wheel of dharma,” Li uses the word to indicate the centre of spiritual energy, which he locates in the lower abdomen and believes can be awakened through a set of exercises called Xiu Lian (“Cultivating and Practicing”). Unlike other Qi Gong groups, Falun Gong insists that its founder is the only authoritative source for determining the correct exercises and that a spiritual discipline, the “cultivation of the Xinxing” (“Mind-Nature”), is essential to the success of the exercises. On a more esoteric level, Li also teaches that demonic space aliens seek to destroy humanity and, since their arrival in 1900, have manipulated scientists and world leaders. Critics of the movement not only ridicule such claims but regard its reliance on Xiu Lian as an alternative to official medicine as hazardous to the members' health. Indeed, the Chinese government claims that 1,400 Falun Gong devotees have died as a result of this alleged rejection of modern medicine.
After gathering a large following in China (100 million, according to Falun Gong, or between 2 and 3 million, according to the Chinese government), Li took his movement abroad in the mid-1990s, settling permanently in New York City in 1998. The next year, a massive campaign was launched by the medical establishment (including both practitioners and academics) and the Chinese government to denounce Falun Gong as a xiejiao (“teaching of falsehood,” or “cult”). Unlike other Chinese organizations, Falun Gong responded strongly, staging an unauthorized demonstration of more than 10,000 followers in Beijing on April 25, 1999, which prompted an even greater government response. In October the enforcement of a new anticult law led to the arrest of 100 Falun Gong leaders (joining 1,000 members who had been arrested earlier). Public trials began in November and continued into the 21st century, with many defendants receiving prison sentences of up to 12 years. While the Chinese government gained the cooperation of some Western “anticult” groups in its domestic and international campaign to expose Falun Gong as a “cult,” it was also criticized by human rights organizations who denounced inter alia the suspicious deaths, allegedly by accident, of some Falun Gong members detained in Chinese jails.
The government's actions, rooted in concerns about the recent revival of independent religious activities in China and fears of the revolutionary nature of religious movements in Chinese history (e.g, the Taiping Rebellion), may drive Falun Gong underground, but its beliefs and practices will probably survive in a variety of forms.
Massimo Introvigne
religion
To cite this page:
MLA style:
"Falun Gong." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Library Edition. 30 Apr. 2008
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Part 2 of Question 6: An article in the Houston Chronicle dealing with Falun Gong and Montrose.
I went to the Houston Chronicle Article Database in the research section of the HPL website and entered Falun Gong and Montrose area and elicited no response. I then entered Falun Gong and just Montrose and got the following article:
EXERCISING LIBERTY / Members of Falun Gong can protest safely in Houston; [3 STAR Edition]
Houston Chronicle. Houston, Tex.: Jul 20, 2001. pg. 38
Full Text (227 words)
Copyright Houston Chronicle Publishing Company Division, The Hearst Corporation (the "Houston Chronicle") Jul 20, 2001
Houstonians who drive past the Chinese consulate on Montrose Boulevard likely will see a platoon of people in yellow T-shirts. Exercising or meditating, the people are calmly drawing attention to the Chinese government's persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual movement.
When similar assemblies take place in China, the participants risk imprisonment, torture and death. In recent years the Chinese government has sent thousands of Falun Gong followers to prison or labor camps, where many have met their deaths. The government says some of them committed suicide, but it can offer no plausible reason for why it imprisoned the Falun Gong members in the first place.
China's rulers in Beijing can claim not to discriminate. Along with the Falun Gong, the government persecutes Catholics loyal to Rome, Buddhists and followers of other beliefs that attempt to exercise any degree of religious freedom, no matter how unthreatening. Winning the 2008 Summer Olympics for Beijing might not lead to improved human rights in China, but it has served to draw attention to China's unrelieved human rights abuses.
President Bush describes China as a strategic competitor, but competition - whether economic or military - does not account for the chronic friction in U.S.-China relations. As long as the United States nourishes liberty and China's rulers war against it, relations between the two nations will not and cannot be smooth.
Credit: Staff
7. How many people of Asian and Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander live in your zip code?
My zip code (77043)
I went to the “Asian and Pacific Islander Population Information from the U. S. Census” website (www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race/api.html , and looked for a long time and could not locate demographics by zip code. I then just googled :Asian” and “zip code,” which rendered a page on the www.city-data.com website for zip code 77043, which included the following entries:
Asian population: 1,945
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander population: 22.
I then went to factfinder.census.gov and entered the zip code, and the following entry was included:
Asian 1,945 7.9 3.6% map
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Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 22 0.1 0.1% map
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Using Academic Search Complete, I found an article in Time Magazine decribing the Falung Gong.
The citation is: Time, 8/9/99, vol. 154, no. 6, p. 48.
The Houston Chronicle database did give me articles on the Falun Gong. I didn't find articles linking them to activities in the Montrose area.
Using Biography Resource Center, I did the occupation searches for Asian Americans. The three people I examined were: Lisa Ling, Anthony Sun, and Claire Chow.
Lisa Ling is Chinese American, works as a television reporter and journalist, and she began her career as a teenager on Channel One.
Anthony Sun is of Thai descent, and he is an investment banker. He has two engineering degrees from MIT. He was selected to be the managing partner of Venrock Associates a major venture capital firm.
Claire Chow is Chinese American, and she works as a family therapist and a writer. She mixes both of these careers, and she is currently exploring interracial marriage as a topic for a future book.
1. website: www.asiasociety.org; 4605 Post Oak Pl, #205, Houston 77027; offers educational programs; more than 100 yearly.
2. in Houston 1/13/04-8/15/04 at Asia Society, NYC; online now at http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/japanesecressns/scr0.
3. use Smithsonian Global Sound; album search, enter album name; performed by Yasuda Shinpu.
4. a. Dong Kingman - CA watercolorist born in Hong Kong.
b. Amy Tan - novelist; author of Joy Luck Club.
c. Yo-Yo Ma - cellist; many recordings; appeared in Houston.
5. Seed imported from Japan in 1904; Japanese rice production in Webster under Seito Saibara and Terry under Kishimatsu Kishi.
6. Falun Gong - Wikipedia description and other information;
Houston Chronicle (Historical) 4 entires including address of Chinese Consulate.
7. www.census.gov - search by zip code 77381 for 2000 census info: Asian 913, Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander 15
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