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.
32 comments:
Answer to question 2- Exhibition called Golden Fantasies - first I checked the Asia Online site for the months of Apr/May of this year by typing into the search box "golden fantasies". Nothing. Then I tried Jun/Jul and nothing. I tried clicking on to past exhibitions and found it. It was held Jan. 13 - Aug.15, 2004 at the Asia Society and Museum NY headquarters. It can still be viewed online.
Answer Question 3 - Music of the Shakuhachi I searched the database Smithsonian Global sound by typing Shakuhachi in the search box, narrowing the search to album and Japanese music, clicked on that and the major performer is Yasuda Shinpu (Kotokan).
The first search I tried was the occupation artist, this datbase did not recognize the term as someone who draws, paints, prints, does fiber art nor sculpts. It listed musicians along with those artists. I tried "rock musician" next and found one name, "Sean Lennon" and 2 citations. Sean Lennon is the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. He is Japanese/American, a singer/songwriter and chose not to ride his famous father's coattails into fame. His first solo album came out in 1998 and he has not produced a second album.
I tried the occupation "ballet Dancer" next and only found one? I know there are more. The one I found is "Maniya Barredo". She is Philippine, American. She was about to become a star in the Phillipines and even though Imelda Marcos suggested she stay, she left and came to New York when she was 18 and won a scholorship to the American Ballet Center She was one of the few ballet dancers renamed by Robert Joffrey.
I chose "ice skater" next and was surprised to only find 2, Nari Nam, Naomi (American ice skater, 1985-) and
Yamaguchi, Kristi (American ice skater, 1971-). What no Michelle Kwan? Naomi Nam is listed as just American. She was expected to skate in the 2002 Olympics. She won the Golden West Championship, 1998.
Answer for Question 5 I checked the Handbook of Texas database - the development of the Texas Gulf Coast rice industry was helped by the introduction of seed imported from Japan in 1904.
Japanese rice production began at Webster in Harris County under the direction of Seito Saibara, his family, and thirty original colonists.
The Kishi Colony was one of at least three small Japanese settlements established on the Texas coastal plains during the early twentieth century. The community, was founded by Kichimatsu Kishi, a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War and a graduate of the University of Tokyo. Kishi moved to the United States in 1906 and visited California, the Carolinas, and Mississippi before deciding upon the Orange County site. Borrowing heavily, he secured a tract in 1907. The following year he and several fellow Japanese immigrants planted their first rice crops.
Answer to question 5 - Falun Gong I used the Asia Society Org site and typed in "falun gong" this lead me to several sites. I chose the first site Asia source which lead me to an article on "Waht is Falun Gong?" and "Falun Gong 101" an entry in "Odd Gods, New Religions & the Cult Controversy" written by Massimo Introvigne,, edited by James R. Lewis and published by Prometheus Books
There were 6 cititations in the "Houston Chronicle article search" database using the terms "falun gong and montrose". One of which was "China takes Falun Gong fight overseas / Local followers say consulates cracking down;" [3 STAR Edition]
EDWARD HEGSTROM. Houston Chronicle. Houston, Tex.: Nov 16, 2001. p. 37
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?
I went to the Asia Society website, and on the homepage, I scroll down until I saw on the right side of the page, “Asia Society Worldwide.” Below this was a list of countries and states were the society had organizations. I clicked on Texas, on the next screen, Asia Society Texas Center, located in Houston. The center serves as a “forum for viewpoints and discussions on Asia-related topics, offering more than 100 programs each year.” These range from lectures, art exhibits, book signings, etc.
Scrolling down to the bottom of this page, I found and clicked on, “Texas Center membership application.” The next screen explained the cost of the different types of memberships. For example, I chose a single person membership, and a new member. Click on continue, the next screen displayed the application.
Question 2: Where and when the exhibition is: GOLDEN FANTASIES: JAPANESE SCREENS FROM NEW YORK COLLECTIONS being held?
On the Asia Society website, and at the top of the homepage, are a series of tabs: Home, Calendar, Resources, Support, About, Visit, and Asiastore. When a moved my mouse over the tab for Calendar, it showed additional tabs: Exhibitions, Social Issues, Culture, Performing Arts, Policy Issues, Business, and Special Events. I clicked on exhibitions. At the left of the next page, I saw a calendar showing April – May 2008. Below this and under the heading of “Select a region, I chose “world wide,” then under the heading “select a category,” was the word, exhibitions. Under the heading of Keyword I typed golden. Clicked on go. Screen came back with, “You have selected the month view April 3rd, 2008. No Exhibitions events matching golden have been posted yet for this period. …Click on calendar arrow to advance to the next month. I clicked on the calendar until I could click no more. So, I looked to the left of the screen, and under the heading of “Archived Events,” I clicked on “past exhibitions.” Next screen I saw, “Online Exhibitions, 2004-2008.” Scrolled down the page until I saw, “Golden Fantasies: Japanese Screens from New York Collections, January 13 – August 15, 2004. Clicked on the title and was taken to the website: www.asiasociety.org/arts/japanesescreens/scr09.html to view the exhibit, “Golden Fantasies…” online.
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?
Under “find information by Category,” I clicked on Music and then Smithsonian Global Sound, which is the database that offers musical excerpts from cultures all around the world.
The first screen, “Welcome to Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries,” at the top of the screen, and under the heading of “Search for music you want to hear, “I typed, “music of the Shakuhachi” and clicked on go. Next screen the first two were a match out of 13,200 tracks that were searched. The first match, and to the right are three buttons, Play, Info, and Add. I clicked on the button that said, Info. A window opened with the recording details. The performer is Shinpu, Yasuda (Kotokan)
Question 4: Biography Resource Center
Occupations:
Mathematician: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Tosio Kato, Chia-Chao Lin, and Sing-Tung Yau
Cabinet Official: Elaine Chao, Rachelle Chong, Maria Luisa Mabilangan Haley, and Norman Y. Mineta
Astronaut: Kalpana Chawla, Leroy Chiao, Ellison S. Onizuka, Eugene H. Trinh, and Taylor Wang
A native son of China, Shing-Tung Yau arrived in America in the late sixties, receiving his PH.D. in mathematics at Berkeley, (his field is differential geometry), and presently a mathematics professor at Harvard, Shing-Tung is best known for, along with Richard Schoen, solving a long standing question in Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, which provided the tools in understanding how black holes are form.
Born 1953 in Taipei, Taiwan, then moving to the United States in the late sixties, Elaine Chao learned at a very early age the value of hard work at home and at school, earning a MBA from Harvard School of Business, going on to work for a number of major corporations, and finally becoming the first Asian American woman to serve in the United States cabinet as Secretary of Labor under President George W. Bush.
On the advice of her brother, “that she would have to fight her own battles to realize her dreams,” Kalpana Chawla, born 1961,in Kamal, India, wanted to be a aerospace engineer against the wishes of her father who wanted her to be a teacher or doctor, “a more respectable profession,” Kalpana persistent and was finally allowed to come to America to study and eventually receive her Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado, and from there to acceptance in the astronaut program in 1994, experiencing her first flight into space in 1997, and her last on the ill fated Columbia shuttle which exploded 16 minutes from landing, on February 1, 2003.
Question 5: How are rice, Japan and Texas connected and when did it all start? What is the significance of Saibara and Kishi?
Using the database, Handbook of Texas Online, I typed the word, rice, and then clicked on search. Next screen I clicked on the first choice out of ten, Handbook of Texas Online – Rice Culture. Next screen, the first paragraph described the history of how rice first came to Texas. The second paragraph describes the development of the Texas Gulf Coast rice industry with the introduction of seed imported from Japan in 1904. 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. It was under the direction of Seito Saibrar, his family and 13 original colonists that rice production began at Webster in Harris County. The Saibara family has been credited with establishing the Gulf Coast rice industry.
Back to the previous screen, I typed in Kishi and then clicked on search. The next screen showed 7 hits. I chose the second one, Handbook of Texas Online – Kishi Colony, Texas. Kishi Colony, Texas was founded by Kichimatsu Kishi, who moved to the United States from Japan in 1906, eventually settling in Orange County, Texas. In 1908, Kichimatsu along with several fellow Japanese immigrants planted their first rice crops. This colony was one of the last Japanese settlements established on the Texas Coastal Plains during the early twentieth century. Going back to the previous screen, I clicked on the third choice, Handbook of Texas Online – Terry, Texas. The Kishi colony was located near the town of Terry, Texas.
Question 6: Using an HPL Database fine a description (your choice or from this month’s list), of Falun Gong and provide the citation. Then find a news story in the Houston Chronicle database that involves the Falun Gong and Montrose area in Houston.
Falun Gong also spelled Falungong, is a 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 Chinese government viewed Falun Gong as a cult.
“Falun Gong.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Library Edition. 7 Apr. 2008
http://0-library.eb.com.catalog.houstonlibrary.org:80/eb/article-9218425.
Database Houston Chronicle, did a basic search of Falon Gong. An article appear in the Chronicle on November 16, 2001 pg. 37 about a local U of H graduate student who went to the Chinese Consulate, to renew his passport. The consulate held his passport for months and then refused to renew it. “Consular officials asked whether he was a member of Falun Gong and encouraged him to give up the practice,” the student said. Other members of the local Falun Gong have experienced the same problem. A local Falun Gong web site lists the hours of a demonstration in front of the Chinese consulate on Montrose.
Since this article appeared in the Houston Chronicle, the Chinese consulate has moved and is now located on 7600 Almeda Road. Source: AT&T White Pages, March 2007.
Question 7: How many people of Asian and native Hawaiian and Other Pacific islander live in you Zip Code area?
Online to the website, www.census.gov on the homepage, clicked on American Factfinder. Next screen under the heading of Get A Fact Sheet for your community, I typed in my library’s zip code 77079, and state, Texas. Next screen under the heading of Census 2000, (2006 data not available for this geography), Demographic Profile Highlights: I found the following: Asian 2,679, Native Hawaiian & Other Pacific Islander 6.
Answer to question #1 the application is found on the Asia Society website. On the right hand side of the website is map of the Asia Society worldwide with states listed. I clicked on the Texas link,scrolled down and the application link was there.
Answer to question#7
By looking in the American Factfinder site and entering my zip code, there are 317 Asian and 13 Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander.
1. Where can I find a membership application to the Asis Society Texas Center? Where is it and what does it do?
www.asiasociety.org
Search “Asia Society Texas Center”
Chose “Texas – Worldwide – Asia Society”
For membership, click on Texas Center membership application at the bottom on the screen.
Located in Houston, Texas. The new building will be only a few blocks away from Clayton Library.
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.
2. Where and when: Golden Fantasies: Japanese Screens from New York Collections
www.asiasociety.org
Search for “golden fantasies”
Chose “Golden Fantasies: Japanese Screens from New York Collections”
Chose “read the press release”
The exhibition will be at the Asia Society and Museum from January 13, 2004 through June 27, 2004. The screens will be rotated on April 6.
725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street), New York City.
3. Find album Music of the Shakuhachi (FW04218) and performer
Select Research
Select All the Library’s Databases
Select Smithsonian Global Sound
Search for “Music of the Shakuhachi”
Performed by Shinpu, Yasuda (Kotokan)
Smithsonian Global sound provides musical excerpts from all around the world.
4. Chose Biographical Facts
Search for actor and Asian-American ethnicity: Dean Cain AKA Dean George Tanaka
He is an actor, the son of Roger Tanaka (ethnicity not discussed), and most famous for playing Superman in the 1990 television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
Search for musician and Asian-American ethnicity: Yo-yo Ma
Yo-yo Ma was born in France of Chinese parents, started playing a small cello at 4, and is hailed as the most extraordinary cellist alive.
Search for judge and Asian-American ethnicity: Lance A. Ito
He is a judge whose ethnicity is listed as Asian American, and was judge of the O.J. Simpson case.
5. How are rice, Japan and Texas connected and when did it all start? What is the significance of Saibara and Kishi?
http://www.tshaonline.org/ (Handbook of Texas Online)
The Japanese first moved to Texas in numbers in 1902 after Texas farmers told a Japanese official on a fact-finding tour that rice farmers would be welcome in Texas. Saibara (1903) and Kishi (1907) were founders of two of the more successful sites.
6.
Falun Gong
Select “Research”
Select “Encyclopedias and Dictionaries”
Select “Wikipedia”
Search for “Falun Gong”
From Wikipedia: “Falun Gong or Falun Dafa is a spiritual practice introduced to the public in China by Li Hongzhi in 1992. It has five sets of meditation exercises and seeks to develop practitioners' hearts and character according to the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance articulated in the main books Falun Gong and Zhuan Falun . The teachings deal with issues such as "cultivation of virtue and character", "moral standards for different levels", and "salvation of all sentient beings."”
Select Newspapers from the database page
Select Houston Chronicle Article Search
Search for “falun gong” and “montrose”
Select article #2
EXERCISING LIBERTY / Members of Falun Gong can protest safely in Houston; [3 STAR Edition]
Houston Chronicle. Houston, Tex.: Jul 20, 2001. pg. 38
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.
7. How many people of Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander live in your zip code?
http://factfinder.census.gov
Chose 77057 zip code
Asian 1,850
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 60
Elizabeth Porter
1. re: Asia Society Texas Center
I went to http://www.asiasociety.org/ and scrolled down to the topic heading "Asia Society Worldwide". I clicked on Texas, which brought me to the homepage for the Texas Society. All answers are found here.
The membership application is linked at the very bottom of the page. The Texas Society is located here in Houston, at 4605 Post Oak Place, Ste. 205. The Society "serves as a forum for viewpoints and discussions on Asia-related topics" in categories like arts & culture, business & poetry, education, and health & environment.
2. re: GOLDEN FANTASIES: JAPANESE SCREENS FROM NEW YORK COLLECTIONS
The Asia Society homepage has a "Calendar" tab on the top of the page. I started by browsing through the monthly events. When I couldn't find what I was looking for, I typed "Golden Fantasies" in the search box at the top of the page (typing it in the keyword search box under the calendar only searches the month you happen to be in and not the entire website). The first hit is the page for the exhibition, which was held January 13, 2005-August 15, 2004 at 725 Park Avenue in New York City.
3. re: Music of the Shakuhachi
When you click on the link provided in the question, it brings up the recording details, including the performer, Yasuda Shinpu.
The recording is offered in the Smithsonian Global Sound database, which is found under the "Music" heading in the "Research" tab on the HPL website.
4. re: Biography
-Anthropologist
--Jim Yong Kim
--Rose Hum Lee
Kim, a physician of South Korean descent, co-founded Partners in Health, a non-profit group that uses innovative means for treating diseases like TB and HIV/AIDS.
-Chemical Engineer
--Leroy Chiao
--George T. Tsao
Chiao is a Chinese-American astronaut who conducted life and material science experiments in the Space Lab aboard the shuttle Columbia in 1994.
-Biochemist
--Choh Hao Li
--Jokichi Takemine
--James C. Wang
Takemine, a Japanese-American chemist, is best known for isolating the hormone epimephrine and playing a major role in Japan's gift of cherry trees planted in Washington D.C.
5. re: Rice & Japan & TX
I began by entering in "rice and japan" in the search field at the Handbook of Texas Online. I clicked on the second link "Rice Culture" and then went back to the first link "Japanese". Both links provided me with answers. Ultimtately, I also searched for "Kishi Colony" and "Saibara" for more information.
Texas started importing rice seed from Japan around 1904. This is significant because up until that point, rice seed had only come to Texas from Hondorus and the Carolinas. Japanese farmers arrived to advise local farmers and brought with them seed gifted from the Emperor of Japan himself.
Seiko Saibara came to Webster in 1903. He is credited with establishing the Gulf Coast rice industry. Kichimatsu Kishi began growing rice in Terry near Beaumont in 1907. Both men are considered the most successful growers of rice in Texas out of the approximately 30 attempts for the time period.
1.A membership application to the Asia Society Texas Center may be found on the http://www.asiasociety.org/ website. The Center is located 4605 Post Oak Place. Suite 205, Houston, Texas 77027. The Purpose of the Center, since 1979 has served as a forum for viewpoints and discussion on Asia related topic, offering 100 programs each year in order to improve a better understanding of the more than 30 countries that comprise Asia.
2. The GOLDEN FANTASIES; JAPANESE SCREENS FROM THE NEW YORK COLLECTIONS
remains on view at the Asia Society and Museum, 725 Park Avenue, at 70th Street, New York. This information was found in the New York Times Article dated Jan. 16, 2004 (ART REVIEW)
ebscohost Research Databases NYTimes Newspaper.
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3. You may listen to tracks from the Album Music of the Shakuhachi (FW04218)where Yasuda Shinpu (Kotokan) is the performer. The Smithsonian Global Sound For Libraries DATABASE used to locate this album.
Question #1
I searched at www.asiasociety.org/visit/texas
Address: 4605 Post Oak Place Suite #205
Houston, Tx 77027
Tel: 713-439-0051
Scrolled down to submit the Texas Center membership application
That Maria is Amelia Juresko
Thank you
aQuestion #2
Searched www.asiasociety.org
Searched for Golden Fantasis: Japanese screens from New York collection
Click on the press release
Asia Society and Museum
725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street), New York City
Phone: 212-517-ASIA
Amelia Juresko
4. The Database the Biogaphy Resource Center was used for "Biographical Facts Search"using ethnicity Asian American and different occupations. The following persons were found and they are a follows:
1st Jokichi Takemine American Chemist, born in Takakao, Japan in 1854. He declined "honorary" U.S.citizenship until the laws were changed to allow people of Japanese descent to become naturalized citizens. He isolated epinephrine (adrenaline), the first of the gland hormones to be discovered in pure form.
2nd Asian American is Robert k.Lim, American physician and physiologist who earned international reputation for his studies of gastrointestinal physiology and the central nervous system. He did studies on how aspirin works in the human body. He was born October 15, 1897Singapore. In 1955, he became U.S. Citizen.
3rd Asian American is Steven Chu, American Atomic Physicist discovered he could slow down atoms by cooling them.
He was born in St. Missouri, on February 28, 1948.
Question #3
I started by doing a search at the Smithsonian Global Sound. Searched for Music of the Shakuhachi
chose (FW04218)
Performer: Yasuda Shipu (Kotokom)
Album: Music of the Shakuhachi
Amelia Juresko
Question #4
List 5 names from each occupation
Fashion Designers:
Eugina Kim
Josie Natori
Kimora Lee Simmons
Anna Sui
Vera Wang
Medical Scientists:
Min-Chieh Chang
Vernon Chong
Deepak Chopra
David D. Ho
Philip Jaisohn
Sammy Lee
Haing Ngor
Actors:
Juzo Itami
Margaret Cho
Will Yun Lee
Pat Morita
Sab Shimono
Chose:
Vera Wang: Best known bridal designer. Chinese heritage, fashion, home designer. Daughter of one of China last feudal warlords. Designed the dress for the 92, 94 Winter Olympics for Nancy Kerrigan.
Haing Ngor: A physician who survived the Khemer Rouge reign. Portraid Cambodian journalist Dith Pran in the 1985 "The Killing Fields" and own an Oscar. Survived torture. Lost his wife and unborned child when they were trying to leave Cambodia.
Margaret Cho: Korean American comedian. First Asian American to star in her own television show "All American Girl" a sitcom about a Korean American family.
Amelia Juresko
Question #5
Used The Handbook Of Texas Online
Started with a search, rice, Japan and Texas
The rice connection in Texas began during the 1800s when his father Seito Saibara and his partner Kishi started to think about planting rice in Texas. Mr. Saibara invited his son, Kiyoaki Saibara, who was an engineering
student to come to Texas. He arrived with his family and a group of laborers and 300 pounds of rice, a present from the emperor of Japan
Amelia Juresko
5. Rice, Japan, and Texas came to be connected in history when 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. 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. 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. As the two settlements prospered they attracted other Japanese, who purchased and operated rice farms nearby. 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.
More information can be found in the Database Handbook Of Texas Online
6. Description o Falun Gong may be found in the following website:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong.
The news story in the Houston Chronicle database that involves Falun Gong and the Montrose Area in Houston is the following:
EDWARD HEGSTROM (2001, November 16). China takes Falun Gong fight overseas / Local followers say consulates cracking down :[3 STAR Edition]. Houston Chronicle,p. A.37. Retrieved April 24, 2008, from Houston Chronicle database. (Document ID: 90300900).
The story states that the Chinese Consulates office which was located in Montrose Area of Houston, Texas was refusing to renew passports of chinese students attending University of Houston. The Chinese government is trying to make them stop practicing Falun Gong.
7. in zip code of the Collier Regional located at 6200 Pinemont, Houston, Texas 77092 is:
Asian
574=NUMBER
1.5=PERCENT
3.6%=U.S.
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
12=NUMBER
0.0=PER CENT
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This information was found in following website:
http://factfinder.census.gov
eSTAR April topic- Asian Pacific American Heritage
Question 1- To find a membership application to the Asia Society Texas Center I went to www.asiasociety.org and clicked on “Texas” under “Asia Society Worldwide”. The page came up with the address of the center in Houston – 4605 Post Oak Place Ste. 205- plus phone numbers. At the bottom of the page was a link to the membership application. The page mentioned that the center is a forum for “viewpoints and discussions on Asian-related topics, offering more than 100 programs each year.” There is a link to upcoming programs and their newsletter.
Question 2- Going to www.asiasociety.org I got to the Texas page (see above) and did a search of the exhibit Golden Fantasies: Japanese Screens from NY Collections. It gave me a link to the page on this exhibit, which was in the NY Asia Society and Museum Jan. 13-Aug. 15, 2004.
Question 3- To hear tracks from the album Music of the Shakuhachi, I went to the Smithsonian Global Sound Database. I put “Music of the Shakuhachi” into “Search for music you want to hear” and it came up with many matches. The performer is shown as Yasuda Shinpu. There were several matches that will let me buy or play the selections.
Question 4- In Biography Resource Center I used the Biographical Facts Search to search for 3 occupations by Asian Americans.
ACTOR
Dean Cain- His original name was Dean George Tanaka. His father was Japanese and he was born in Michigan. He played Superman in Lois and Clark.
Margaret Cho
Michelle Kwan
Juzo Itami
Greg Louganis
ASTRONAUT
Kalpana Chawla
Leroy Chiao
Ellison S. Onizuka- Grandson of Japanese immigrants, Ellison grew up in
Hawaii and was one of the astronauts that died on the Challenger Space Shuttle.
Eugene H. Trinh
Taylor Wang
WRITER
Agha Shahid Ali- Born in New Delhi, India, he was “one of the few Indian Muslim poets writing in English and one of the few English-language poets from Kashimir.
Ai
Meena Alexander
Jose Aruego
Peter Bacho
Question 5- “How are rice, Japan and Texas connected and when did it all start? What is the significance of Saibara and Kishi?” Under Databases, I went to Handbook of Texas Online and did a search, using “rice in Texas and Japan”. Several articles came up and I clicked on the first one. It said that Japanese first moved to Texas in significant numbers in 1902. Encouraged to grow rice in the state, two sites were successful, one in Webster founded by Saibara in 1903 and one in Terry by Kishi in 1907.
Question #6
Searched Gale Virtual Reference Library
Searched for: Falun Gong
Source Citation:Ownby David "Falun Gong." Encyclopedia of Religion. ed. Lindsay Jones Vol. 5.2nded. Detroit: MacMillan Reference USA, 2005.pg2978-2981. Gale Virtual Library. Gale, Houston Public Library. 21 Apr 2008 http://0_gogalegroup.com.catalog.houstonlibrary.org: 801ps/start.do? p=GURL & u=txshrpub100185
Second part of the question:
Started by searching Houston Chronicle database (Article Search)
Searched for Falun Gong and Houston
Document details:
Subjects: Religious persecution, orphans, Demonstration & protests--Houston Texas
Companies Falun Gong-China (NAICS: 813110)
Author:Kristen Mack
Document types: News
Section: B
Publication Title: Houston Chronicle. Houston, tx.: Aug 21, 2005. pg. 3
Source Type: Newspapers
ISSN: 10747109
ProQuest document ID: 884950081
Text Word Count: 459
Document URL: http//0-proquest.umi.com.catalog.houstonlibrary.org:80/pqdweb?did=884950081&sid=&Fmt=3&cli entld=53902&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Amelia Juresko
Question #7
Started by going to American Factfinder
DP-1. Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000
Data Set: Census 2000 Sumary File 1(SF 1) 100-Percent Data
Geographic Area: 77004
Asian: 863
Asian Indian: 209
Chinese: 263
Filipino:27
Japanese: 25
Korean: 30
Vietnamese: 165
Other Asian: 144
Native Haiiwan: and other Pacific Islander:8
Native Haiiwan: 1
Other Pacific Islander: 2
Amelia Juresko
6. re: Falun Gong
I went to the Britannica Online Library Edition to find out what Falun Gong is. It's basically defined as a spiritual movement founded by Li Hongzhi in 1992 and is considered a cult by the Chinese government.
Citation: "Falun Gong." Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Library Edition. 30 Apr. 2008.
I searched for "Falun Gong and Montrose" in the Houston Chronicle Article Search database. The first article that came up, "China takes Falun Gong fight overseas/Local followers say consulates cracking down" by Edward Hegstrom from November 16, 2001, mentions daily protests occuring at the Chinese consulate in Montrose.
7. re: Asian and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander population
I went to census.gov and typed in my zip code in the search box for the population finder. According to the Census 2000 (newer data isn't available), only 2,874 Asians and 9 Native Hawaiians or Other Pacific Islanders live in my zip code.
1. Asia Society Texas Center
4605 Post Oak Place, Ste. 205
Houston, TX 77027
Tel: (713) 439-0051
Fax: (713) 439-1107
Email: txcenter@asiasoc.org
What they do:
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.
https://www.asiasociety.org/membership/texas_membership.pl - Membership information
2. http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/japanesescreens/index.html , http://www.asiasociety.org/pressroom/rel-japanese_screens.html
January 13 - August 15, 2004 January 13 – June 27, 2004, Asia Society and Museum
Asia Society and Museum
725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street), New York City.
(212) 517-ASIA, www.asiasociety.org
3. Smithsonian Global Sound – type Music of the Shakuhachi (FW04218). In search box; Yasuda Shinpu is the performer
4. Biography Resource Center – occupation/nationality search
A. 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-)
Margaret Cho is a Korean-American actor/comedian/author who starred in the 1994 sitcom All-American Girl.
B. Army Officer – only one listed
William Shao Chang Chen
William Shao Chang Chen was the first Chinese American major general in the armed forces of the United States, serving for 30 years.
C. Artist
Aruego, Jose (American illustrator, 1932-)
Barry, Lynda (American cartoonist, c. 1956-)
Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei (Chinese writer, 1947-)
Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung (American novelist, 1951-1982)
Chang, Diane (American writer, 1934-)
Lynda Barry
Barry is a Filipino-American and a cartoonist and author, known for the “Ernie Pook” comic strip.
5. 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. 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.
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.
6. Academic Search Complete - Falun Gong and the Future of China. Publishers Weekly, 3/24/2008, Vol. 255 Issue 12, p68-68, 1/5p; (AN 31567817)
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EXERCISING LIBERTY / Members of Falun Gong can protest safely in Houston; [3 STAR Edition]
Houston Chronicle. Houston, Tex.: Jul 20, 2001. p. 38
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