#b. 1943 chinese

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Chen Huimin 陳慧敏 ／b. 1943 chinese

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Yu Youhan (Chinese, b. 1943), Towards Prosperity, 1994. Acrylic, paper collage on canvas, 104.7 x 144.8 cm

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Zhang Hongtu (Chinese, b. 1943)

Mi Youren - Monet, 1999

oil on canvas

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Chinese Ethnic Minority Literature

I just finished taking an incredibly eye-opening class about Chinese ethnic minority literature. China has a thriving minority literature scene, and it's absolutely fascinating and full of interesting works, so I wanted to share some of the authors that I learned about this semester! This is, obviously, an incomplete list-- it's pretty heavily biased towards what we read about in class, and there's probably a lot I've missed!

For any authors with full works that have been translated into English, I've listed it under their names. Some other authors may also have poems or short stories published in translation online or in anthologies.

Hani 哈尼

Mo Du 莫獨 (b. 1963) - poems

Hui 回族

Huo Da 霍達 (b. 1945) - novels

The Jade King: History of a Chinese Muslim Family (1992)

Zhang Chengzhi 張承志 (b. 1948) -novels, short stories

The Black Steed (1990)

Korean 朝鮮族

Jin Renshun 金仁順 (b. 1970) - novels, short stories

Jin Wenxue 金文學 (b. 1962) - novels

Manchu 滿族

Duanmu Hongliang 端木蕻良 (1912-1996)

Lao She 老舍 (1899-1966) - novels, short stories, plays

Rickshaw Boy (1945, 2010)

Miao (Hmong) 苗族

He Xiaozhu 何小竹 (b. 1963) - poems, novels

Shen Congwen* 沈從文 (1902-1988) - novels, short stories

Imperfect Paradise (1995)

Border Town (2009)

Mongolian 蒙古族

Altai 阿爾泰 (b. 1949) - poems

Bao Liying 包麗英 (b. 1968) - novels

Baoyinhexige 寶音賀希格 - poems

Chen Ganglong 陳崗龍 (b. 1970) - poems

Guo Xuebo 郭雪波 (b. 1948) - novels, short stories

The Desert Wolf (1996)

Malaqinfu 瑪拉沁夫 (b. 1930)- novels

Naxi 納西族

Sha Li 沙蠡 (1953-2008) - novels

Yang Zhengwen 楊正文 (b. 1943) - novels

Qiang 羌族

Qiang Renliu 羌人六 (b. 1987) - poems

Yangzi/Yang Guoqing 羊子/楊國慶 - poems

Tibetan 藏族

Alai 阿來 (b. 1959) - novels, short stories

Red Poppies (2003)

The Song of King Gesar (2013)

Tashi Dawa 扎西達娃 (b. 1959) - novels, short stories

A Soul in Bondage: Stories from Tibet (1992)

Yangdron 央珍 (b. 1963) - novels

Uyghur 維吾爾族

Alat Asem 阿拉提·阿斯木 (b. 1958) - novels, short stories

Confessions of a Jade Lord (2019)

Wa/Va 佤族

Burao Yilu 布饒依露 - poems

Yi 彝族

Aku Wuwu 阿庫烏霧 (b. 1964) - poems, essays

Tiger Traces: Selected Nuosu and Chinese Poetry of Aku Wuwu (2006)

Coyote Traces: Aku Wuwu's Poetic Sojourn in America (2015)

Bamo Qubumo 巴莫曲佈嫫 (b. 1964) - poems, academic articles

Eni Mushasijia 俄尼·牧莎斯加 (b. 1970) - poems

Jidi Majia 吉狄馬加 (b. 1961) - poems

I, Snow Leopard (2016)

Words from the Fire: Poems by Jidi Majia (2018)

Jimu Langge 吉木狼格 (b. 1963) - poems

Lu Juan 魯娟 (b. 1982) - poems

Ma Deqing 馬德清 (1952-2013) - poems, novels

Na Zhangyuan 納張元 (b. 1966) - essays

*Shen has both Miao and Tujia ancestry, as well as Han. However, I see him listed most frequently as Miao.

More Resources on Ethnic Minority Literature:

Altaic Storytelling: The blog of translator Bruce Humes (translator of Confessions of a Jade Lord, among other works). Has a fairly broad focus, but he's written a lot about ethnic minorities.

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Ethnic Literature: China has a thriving infrastructure to support the writing of and research into ethnic minority literature, and this is one of the larger institutions. I believe their research focuses more on oral traditions, but they have some information about contemporary writers as well.

Chinese Women Writers on the Environment: An anthology of eco-fiction by female ethnic minority writers.

Golden Horse Award 駿馬獎: This is an annual award for ethnic minority literature. The wikipedia link lists all the previous winners.

The Leeds Center for New Chinese Writing: Again not specific to ethnic minorities, but features several ethnic minority authors.

Paper Republic: This organization is devoted to translated Chinese writing and isn't specific to ethnic minority literature but has information about and translations of some of the writers on this list.

Poetry International: This website isn't specific to ethnic minorities or even to China, but many of the poets on this list have pages there with a few poems translated into English.

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Yu Youhan 余友涵 (Chinese, b. 1943) - Untitled 無題, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 50 cm (2017)

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Joan Crawford - The Hollywood Glamor Girl

Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas on March 23, 1906) was an American actress remembered today as the quintessential "Hollywood Glamor Girl."

Of French-Huguenot and English ancestry, she joined several dance contests, one of which landed her in a chorus line. Before long, she was in Broadway.

By 1925, she was on her way to Hollywood for a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Her first role came soon after - as the body double for Norma Shearer, MGM's most popular female star. The studio saw her potential, but disliked her name, so they ran a contest, "Name the Star," in Movie Weekly.

Crawford made several silent films and had continued success in talkies after working very hard to remove her Southern accent. Even though she remained a respected and profitable actress at MGM, her popularity declined in the 1940s. In 1943, she requested to be released from MGM and immediately signed with Warner Brothers.

Warner Brothers gave her a chance to show her range and revived her career with movies like Mildred Pierce (1945), which won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. Like before, she asked to be released from her contract in 1952.

She continued to work freelance and became actively involved with Pepsi-Cola Co. through her marriage tot he company's president. Her career came to a lull again mostly because of the lack of roles for older women in Hollywood. By the 1960s, she again had a transformation and became her own PR machine, with a new script, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962). It was a hit and led to a string of roles until she retired in 1970.

At 69, she died from a heart attack in her apartment in Lenox Hill. Manhattan. Shortly after, it was revealed she paid for the medical care of hundreds of people, many of whom were from the film industry. She never publicized these nor wanted the public or patients to know.

Legacy:

Won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Mildred Pierce (1945) and nominated twice more: Possessed (1948) and Sudden Fear (1953)

Won the National Board Review Best Actress for Mildred Pierce (1945)

Nominated for a Golden Globe Best Actress for Sudden Fear (1953)

Nominated for the 1964 BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress

Named as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926

Won the Photoplay Awards - Best Performance of the Month in August and September 1928, the 1951 and 1953 Most Popular Female Star

Honored with a block in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in 1929

Listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America’s top-10 box office draws from 1930 to 1936

Was the vice president of the Motion Picture Relief Fund in the 1930s

Proclaimed the first "Queen of the Movies" by Life in 1937

Donated her entire salary from donated her entire $112,500 salary from They All Kissed The Bride (1942) to charities in memory of Carole Lombard

Won the Golden Apple Award twice as Most Cooperative Actress in 1945 and 1946

Won the Golden Laurel for Top Female Performance for Sudden Fear (1953) and Torch Song (1954)

Received the first Golden Shutter Award in 1955 from the LA Press Photographers Association

Served in the Board of Directors of Pepsi-Cola Co. from 1959 to 1973

Given the Variety Club of Philadelphia's Variety Club Award in 1960

Co-wrote two autobiographies, A Portrait of Joan (1962) and My Way of Life (1971)

Honored with City of Hope Award in 1963 and the Heart of the World Award in 1965 by City of Hope Hospital

Named by the United Service Organizations as the first "Woman of The Year" in 1965

Sponsored the Joan Crawford Dance Studio in 1965 and the Joan Crawford Awards Collection in 1966 at Brandeis University

Became a Brandeis University Fellow in 1967

Presented with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 1970 Golden Globe Awards

Was the national chairwoman of the American Cancer Society in 1972

Appeared in the "Legendary Ladies" series at The Town Hall in 1973

inducted in the Photoplay Awards Hall of Fame in 1977

Depicted in her daughter's memoir, Mommie Dearest (1978), which was turned to a film in 1981

Is the namesake of a 1981 song by Blue Öyster Cult

Featured in the 1989 book Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud, the basis for the 2017 show Feud: Bette and Joan

Named the 10th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema in 1999 by the American Film Institute

Inducted in the Online Film and Television Association Hall of Fame in 2005

Ranked #93 in Premiere magazine’s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time in 2006 for Mildred Pierce (1945)

Ranked 84 in Playboy's "100 Sexiest Women of the 20th Century" in 2012

Honored as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month for January 2014

Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1752 Vine Street for motion picture

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Chen Huimin. Chinese, (b. 1943). Red Lotus.

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(left to right) "Walter," Phyllis Soohoo, and Kenny Kai-Kee outside Sather Gate on the campus of the University of California Berkeley, c. 1940. Photographer unknown (from the collection of Doug Chan).

War and Mother's Remembrance

In an old photograph, a smiling Chinese coed strolls out of the University of California Berkeley’s Sather Gate, circa 1940. Observing this image, one cannot help but infer that my future mother didn’t lack for male companionship eight decades ago. However, beyond the personal anecdote, the photograph of the trio encapsulates a broader narrative about the adventurous spirit of Chinese American youth who began entering college in significant numbers on the cusp of the Second World War.

The Chinese students who enrolled at Cal in the late 1930’s represented a subset of the second or third generation offspring of the Chinese settlers in California. Despite being a minority, these students embodied the inaugural All-American generation of the Chinese diaspora in the US.

Chinese collegians dine at the Persian Room in the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, June 12, 1942. Hollywood Nite Club Photos (from the collection of Doug Chan). Phyllis Soohoo appears second from right.

The confluence of access to higher education and the backdrop of WWII proved to be a watershed moment for Chinese American youth. The war coincided with the formation and facilitated the ascent of the first Chinese American middle class.

With the outbreak of war, my mother took breaks to work for Shell Oil Co.'s laboratories, where she contributed to the development and testing of waterproofing treatments for equipment such as tents. Alongside other Chinese American men and women on the homefront, she undertook real jobs for the first time outside of the segregated Chinatowns. Her generation garnered newfound respect from their compatriots and the larger society amidst an era scarred by exclusion.

Time and the passing of her generation have dimmed the sacrifices made by many of my mother's contemporaries and, most poignantly, the memories of young men who had served and fallen in combat.

UC Berkeley classmates Kenny Kai-Kee and Phyllis Soohoo at Lake Lagunitas, March 21, 1940. Photographer unknown (from the collection of Doug Chan).

Kenny Kai-Kee was the classmate and a friend seen at the right in my mother's photograph outside of Sather Gate. Remembered as a jovial and talented athlete who secured a spot on Cal's varsity basketball team, Kenny would earn a lieutenant's commission, joining the US Army Air Force in October 1943 and qualifying as a bomber pilot. As recounted in my earlier writing here, this year marks the 80th anniversary of the downing of Kenny’s B-17 to enemy fire over Austria in late July 1944.

My mother, Phyllis Soohoo, was a compulsive archivist. She kept all of the half-dozen photos of her and her former boyfriend, Kenny. She would continue to refer to grief-stricken parents, Lock and Rita, as “Mom” and “Pop,” and send them a Christmas card every year after that terrible summer of 1944. Years later, when her own family went out for dinner in Oakland, she would meet and greet Kenny’s parents on the sidewalks of Chinatown as the old-time families usually encountered each other going to or from dinners at the old Silver Dragon.

Kenny’s remains had been interred initially in a distant plot. The German records recorded a burial first on July 27, 1944, in the cemetery of St. Jakob i. Walde, Austria. More than five years later, Lock and Rita were notified that Kenny’s remains were coming “home” to be re-interred at the Jefferson National Cemetery Barracks. His parents traveled back to St. Louis, Missouri, to witness the re-interment, which occurred on May 15, 1950.

No one can recall if Lock and Rita Kai-Kee ever revisited their son’s lonely grave in St. Louis, so far from family, friends and loved ones. If my mother knew of the location of Kenny’s grave when a cross-country motor trip with her family drove her through St. Louis in the summer of 1964, she never mentioned it. On the two or three times when I had asked her about Kenny, I recall her fleeting, faraway look when she mentioned his name. She and millions of other Americans knew first-hand not only the young men who never returned from the great global conflagration of the 1940s, but the loss, grief, and the waste of war. Like many other Americans who were left behind in sorrow, my mother emerged from the war years with not only her pharmacist's license but also specific, painful reasons to detest the horrors of the global conflict and its waste of life.

Another decade would pass before Mom crossed paths with my father. He had shared none of the transformational experiences of my mother's college cohort. His family had struggled during the years of the Great Depression in San Francisco Chinatown, and he lacked the means, and perhaps the inclination, to pursue university education before enlisting in the US Coast Guard.

Rita Kai-Kee would carry the bitterness of Kenny's loss and the cruelty of war’s cost until her death in August 1983. Lock died seven months later.

After my mother's passing in 2001, my then-grieving father had dispassionately set all of her personal effects, records, and old photos for disposal. I reclaimed a portion of her captured memories from a grim jumble of items he had discarded for the dump. Among the carefully compiled sets of letters and photos about her side of the family, were the small snapshots of her with Kenny. My mother’s archive provided glimpses into a personal life in which Dad had played no part, separated by a ferry ride and later a new Bay Bridge. As such, her mementos formed a sentimental narrative, ending on the eve of her encountering my father in San Francisco Chinatown’s Powell Garage in 1953.

I was brought into the world about a year later. Decades later I would find among a pile of baby gift cards from family and friends the small card sent to my mother by “Mom” and “Pop” Kai-Kee. Their names had been included on the baby announcement list.

The war coincided with the making, and spurred the rise, of the first Chinese American middle class. As the image and condition of the Chinese in America changed, so did its economic opportunities. By 1943 -- the year the Exclusion Act was repealed -- 15 percent of the shipyard workers on San Francisco Bay were Chinese. During the war, Chinese American men and women were working real jobs for the first time in the world’s only industrial behemoth and gaining new respect from their fellow citizens.

The loss of Kenny Kai-Kee, the only son of a pioneering family, was doubly bitter because he exemplified the first All-American generation of Chinese. Death deprived him of the realization that the Second World War proved to be a watershed event for Chinese American youth. The young men and boys who flew in the B-17s of the 8th and 15th Air Forces came home to a Chinese America not quite free of the strictures of white racism, but well on its way to equal rights for Chinese Americans, freed from the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Back in Oakland, Kenny would have heard the laughter of unprecedented numbers of children in the Nation’s Chinatowns. He would have seen his buddies buying houses in gradually desegregating neighborhoods, resuming college careers on the G.I. Bill, and wading into the social and cultural mainstream of postwar America.

We will never know what Kenny could have accomplished had he lived. Had he stayed in Oakland, he probably would have married the love of his short life, raised a family, and grown old. We would have seen him as just another 80-year-old senior citizen, serving up decades' worth of easy banter along with the stacks of pancakes at the Wa Sung Club’s annual Easter breakfast. As a member of one of Chinese America’s greatest generations, he would have made his own contribution.

Instead, we are left only with the perplexing example of the wrenching deaths of Kenny and the thousands of other young men who never made it back home. Such selflessness demands that we ponder the meaning of his brief life and how in our time, beyond the words and through our own deeds, we as Americans can make his death meaningful and us worthy of such a sacrifice.

If the task of reclaiming the history of Chinese America must begin anew with each generation, then the stories not only of gallantry but also of sacrifice should be told again. Each retelling represents a call for new generations, native and immigrant, to engage in a singular act of faith in the future and reaffirmation of hope that the mere utterance of the names will sustain the memories of the lives, the valor, and the sacrifices of the Chinese Americans who marched, sailed or flew in harm's way. Such is the heavy burden on ethnic historians and storytellers to remember the community’s forgotten men in unforgettable ways.

[2024-7-30]

[makingenemies]

𝑶𝑭 𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑹𝑰𝑩𝑳𝑬 𝑪𝑶𝑵𝑭𝑬𝑺𝑺𝑰𝑶𝑵𝑺 ...

𝘪𝘵'𝘴　　𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯　　𝘮𝘦　　𝘴𝘰　　𝘧𝘢𝘳　　𝘣𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥　　𝘵𝘩𝘦　　𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵　　𝘰𝘧　　𝘯𝘰　　𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯

𝐓 𝐇 𝐄  𝐄 𝐗 𝐓 𝐑 𝐀  .  .  .

name ( s )  :  viktor drake ( undisclosed government name )   .   alias  :  viktor drake ,  vik , viky ( careful with that one )   .   d . o . b .  december  4  ,  1943   .   in  :  san francisco  ,  california   .   he  holds  citizenship  in  the  united states of america   .    he  speaks  :  english  , moreno version of italian   .   religious  beliefs  :  raised by non-practicing roman catholics — returned upon moreno family undercover op   .   educational  achievements  :  bachelors degree in criminal justice   .   current  occupation  :  underboss for the moreno family   .   former  occupation  :  fbi agent until '78   .   eye  colour  :  dark brown   .   hair  colour  :  black varies from shoulder length to shorter , namely shorter in the 70's and 80's   .   height  :  6′1″ , 186 cm   .   distinguishing  characteristic  :  aroma of tobacco lingering , catholic crucifix tattoo between his shoulder blades with latin writing   .

current  theory  :   possible waning confidence on the state of the moreno's after lev's death   .   frequent locations  :  the halcyon , hotel  calgarie when necessary , the one chinese restaurant off fifth ave   .   habits  :  spending holidays alone at restaurants , smoking excessively   .  prized  possession  :  engraved zippo lighter gifted to him by the late lev ' lucky ' moreno   .

inspo  ;    𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘰 ( 1997 ) , 𝘫𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵 ( 𝘹-𝘮𝘦𝘯 ) , 𝘫𝘰𝘩𝘯𝘯𝘺 𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘩 ( 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬 ) , 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘯𝘦'𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳

𝐓 𝐇 𝐄  𝐒 𝐓 𝐎 𝐑 𝐘  .  .  .

the day one is born, one is nearly taken. a life for a life, living on borrowed time and death comes like a debt collector one cold december night. a place he hasn't been, but new york whispers its promises, where twinkling lights illuminate the city and the rush of the metro past the vacant platform tightens a boy's grip on his mother's hand. darkness never shrouds them but the light flickering overhead gives way to the cold barrel of a gun pointing at her, the woman whose hand he holds. and it's always the same; the pearls around her neck, the purse over her shoulder. . . 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳, and because of this she must let go. and upon returning, san francisco is colder somehow, the fog is heavier and the cherry red cable cars rolling up and down familiar streets remain his only constant. his father sits in the corner of the living room with silent regret louder than words can ever be. he should have gone with them. and she's still there too, his mother, in debt to death more than most, but left with a reminder. 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥. and that reminder is a push of fate, his fate. next to his father's morning coffee, the newspaper headlining the fbi's most wanted and a mugshot searing into his memory, one of them. 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺. his twenties are serviced to a double life. a throw away special agent, one foot in and one out. he's expendable enough, but he's ' got what it takes ' they tell him. he's the one who can end it all. and he thinks so too. pompous might and the expense of youth, the fbi craves it. but so does another. at the hands of a fresh faced attorney he finds his way in. she is the first to bind him, and soon wire tapped conversations and acceptance from crooks feels a little less like a means to an fbi weekly check in. mannerisms cannot be turned off, speech patterns bleed into outside conversations, and relationships. . . 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘳. years in. he marries, for his cover. he fathers children, for his cover. he kills, for his cover and he's disowned, for his cover. . . 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦. and lev moreno knows this, it's a waiting game. a test and viktor makes his decision the day he blows the fbi's sting operation. his pledge of allegiance, but his penance is serving at the bottom, until again, he makes a sacrifice at the alter of lev moreno. his blood ties are chosen and it's all he has left. 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥. the climb to the top is not without sacrifice, and when he can give no more he finds the title he's come to earn to be no less a personal hell than the one he's paid for since the day he chose.

𝐓 𝐇 𝐄  𝐂 𝐎 𝐍 𝐍 𝐄 𝐂 𝐓 𝐈 𝐎 𝐍 𝐒  .  .  .

the agent , the partner he had when part of the fbi in the '70s, the one that he checked in with during his undercover op who he blindsided after turning on the fbi for the moreno family

the ex wife ( 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘩 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘯 ) , she was his initial ' in ' with the moreno family back in the 70's and the mother of his child, divorcing in '81.

trust issues , neither seem to be too fond of each other, reasons neither can seem to articulate. call it a hunch, a feeling. in the moreno group and would not be aware, like most are not of the fbi past

keeping the bed warm , it's as heartless as it sounds, and both know it.

( 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘪 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸 )

[dear-indies]

hi there & happy new year! can you please suggest some fcs like Chloe Zhao, Isabel Sandoval, Hong Chau? I'm particularly drawn to them because a) they have personality b) characteristics (which I also have) like Chloe's wide nose, Hong's thin eyes, the non-pale-as-a-sheet skin they all have—qualities that I feel are sometimes erased/downplayed with makeup, photoshop, or surgery due to media issues/racism/colorism. not to be too soppy about it but i find their beauty affirming. thank you <3

Wai Ching Ho (1943) Hongkonger.

Marie Jamora (1978) Filipino.

Kimee Balmilero (1979) Filipino.

Rila Fukushima (1980) Japanese,

Tominaga Ai (1982) Japanese.

Nanfu Wang (1985) Chinese.

Chai Fonacier (1986) Bisaya Filipino.

Anne Watanabe (1986) Japanese.

Domee Shi (1989) Chinese.

Kelly Marie Tran (1989) Vietnamese.

Darny Chau (1989) Cambodian.

Jona Xiao (1989) Chinese.

Jenny Yang (1990) Taiwanese.

Stephanie Hsu (1990) Taiwanese.

Michelle Pokopac (1992) Korean.

Naomi Wang (1992) Chinese.

Leah Lewis (1996) Chinese.

Hana Sugisaki (1997) Japanese.

Tiffany Espensen (1999) Chinese.

Si Chen (?) Chinese - uses she/they and is queer.

Jully Lee (?) Korean.

Annie To (?) Chinese-Vietnamese.

Anna Tran (?) Vietnamese.

Iya Baclagan (?) Filipino.

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楊明義 Yang Mingyi (Chinese, b. 1943)

A Hundred Bridges

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Events 1.18 (before 1970)

474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later. 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail. 1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong. 1486 – King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, uniting the House of Lancaster and the House of York. 1562 – Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session. 1586 – The magnitude 7.9 Tenshō earthquake strikes Honshu, Japan, killing 8,000 people and triggering a tsunami. 1670 – Henry Morgan captures Panama. 1701 – Frederick I crowns himself King in Prussia in Königsberg. 1778 – James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands". 1788 – The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrive at Botany Bay. 1806 – Jan Willem Janssens surrenders the Dutch Cape Colony to the British. 1866 – Wesley College is established in Melbourne, Australia. 1871 – Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Wilhelm already had the title of German Emperor since the constitution of 1 January 1871, but he had hesitated to accept the title. 1886 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. 1896 – An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith. 1911 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship. 1913 – First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece. 1915 – Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia. 1919 – World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France. 1919 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland. 1941 – World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa. 1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. 1945 – World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army. 1958 – Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins. 1960 – Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years. 1967 – Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment. 1969 – United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.

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Master Sergeant William Jones (July 15, 1918 - December 3, 2009) one of the last Buffalo Soldiers, was an Army Master Sergeant, Prisoner of War in Korea, and successful entrepreneur. He was born in Tamo, Arkansas to farmers Joseph and Elizabeth Jones, the youngest of seven children.

He grew up in Kansas and attended the “colored school” in Coffeyville, Kansas. On March 5, 1941, he enlisted in the Army at Fort Leavenworth. He was assigned to the 10th Calvary in Fort Riley, becoming part of the last generation of buffalo soldiers.

In 1943, the 9th and 10th Calvary were integrated into the Army Air Corps with the mission of building airstrips in North Africa and Italy for B-17 bombers. Beginning in March 1944, He was assigned to Casablanca, Morocco, and later Naples, Italy.

He was deployed to Manila, where he built airstrips for B-17 bombers to fly deep strikes into Japan. Before his unit became fully operational, atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan ending WWII.

He was assigned to Fort Lawton and his all-Black unit was designated the 503rd Field Artillery with the 2nd Infantry Division. The unit deployed to Pusan, Korea on August 3, 1950, after the start of the Korean conflict. They were overrun by Communist Chinese forces and he was captured and held in the Pyok-Dong POW camp. For three years he survived horrendous conditions that saw eight to ten captives die each night. He was released on September 5, 1953, at the end of the Conflict, and returned to Tacoma as a hero.

He was assigned to the 546th Field Artillery Battalion at Fort Lewis. After 20 years of military service, he retired as a Master Sergeant in El Paso. He was a truck driver, artillery mechanic, supply clerk, and marksman/ sharpshooter.

He started a thriving recycling and vintage antique business in Tacoma. To keep the memory of pioneering Black soldiers alive, he opened the Ninth and Tenth (Horse) Cavalry Museum in Tacoma.

He lived in Tacoma for 55 years, with his wife Hannah, who died in 1972. He was survived by his four children. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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"Hits Nurse With Hammer, Goes to 'Pen' For 4 Years," Toronto Star. June 7, 1943. Page 2. ---- "Might Have Killed This Woman," Magistrate Tells Gordon Brown ---- "BRUTAL ASSAULT" ---- "A" Police Court at the City Hall, Magistrate Browne. This was a very brutal assault. You might have killed this woman," declared Magistrate Browne to Gordon Brown, alias Robertson 26, who pleaded guilty of robbing Madelon Sperian, a nurse, with violence.

"You will go to Kingston penitentiary for four years," ruled his worship. Accused has a record.

Detective Sgt. J. Ewing testified that about 8.40 a.m., May 28, Miss Sperian left her apartment on Sherbourne St. for a few minutes. "She returned and found Brown in her bedroom with her purse." said witness." She attempted to take it from him. He pulled a nammer from his pocket and struck her three severe blows over the head. Sne struggled, got away and shouted for help. Neighbors arrived and the police were called. Accused was held until they arrived.

Miss Speraan received a deep cut on the head that required 10 stitches. She is all convalescent.

Brown stated that he was in the army and discharged. "I am subject to fits and every time I got a job I lost it. I was desperate as I could not get work," he asserted.

On charge of having a still suitable for the manufacture of spirits, George Arbe, who pleaded not guilty, ws convicted, and fined $200 or three months.

Constables Roy Perry and Herbert White said that they went to accused home on Walton St., May 29, and found a small still. "He had a tin of mash, with a worm attached," said PC. Perry. "Accused had two bottles of flavoring and told us he was experimenting."

Arbre told court this was the first time he ever tried it. "I did not know much about it and I guess I was not making a very good job," he said. "I did not realize it was a serious matter.:

As a result of a raid by Constables Cole and Simmons of the Morality squad, on a house on Bleecker St, 11 men were charged with gambling on the Lord's Day. They pleaded guilty.

"They were playing poker - we seized $23.35," said P.C. Cole.

Magistrate Browne assessed each of them $10 or five days and turned the seized money over to a war charity.

Raiding premises on Elizabeth St., Constables Herb White and Roy Perry arrested 10 Chinese on a charge of gambling on the Lord's Day. They each pleaded guilty and were fined $2 on two days each and $11.40 seized by the officers was given to the Chinese War Relief Fund.

BEAT WIFE AGED 78 ---- "C" Police Court, at City Hall, Magistrate Prentice. Charged with beating his 78-year-old wife, Robert McDougall, 66, was sentenced to 30 days in jail. He pleaded not guilty.

Assisted by two officers to the stand, her right cheek swollen and discolored, Mrs. McDougall told the court that on the afternoon of May 29 her husband gave her a severe beating. "I was sitting in a chair. He started pounding my face with his fists. I got up and went into the bedroom. He pounded me as I lay on the bed. He broke one of my ribs. Then he left and said he would be back to attend to me later."

Accused denied assaulting his wife, saying he was in Owen Sound at the time. "I didn't know she had got hurt till I saw her in court to-day," said McDougall.

"This is a real case of an aggravated assault," commented the magistrate.

OBSTRUCTED POLICE ---- Magistrate Woodliffe, Police Court "B", at City Hall Convicted of common assault on John Campbell in a landlord-tenant altercation, Carl Lebecki was fined $15 or 10 days.

Pte. Walter Wm. Forma charged with obstructing Plainclothesman Robt. Masters, was fined $10 or five days. "When he saw us he whistled and shouted 'lake out, and a crap game in a lane broke up." Masters said.

"I didn't know they were police-men - they were not in uniform," said the accused, "When they ran toward me. I ran too."

"From what you called out you must have known the officers," commented F. I. Malone, crown counsel, who stated that the accused's furlough from Manitoba expired last night. "I was going to wire for an extension," said Forma.

HIT POLICE OFFICER ---- County Police Court. Country Buildings, Magistrate Keith. Frank Wirth of Downsview pleaded guilty of assaulting a police officer on Oakwood Ave.

"I was called to a hotel on Oakwood," said Constable J. Van Allen of York township. "Accused caught up with a motorcycle and threw the machine with two riders over on the road. Accused grappled with one. Then he struck me several times in the face, kicked me and did $10 damage to my uniform."

"I had a few drinks." said accused. "The first thing I knew, someone had me by the side. I didn't know he was an officer."

Wirth was fined $15 and costs or 15 days.

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On this day in Wikipedia: Friday, 29th March

Welcome, vitajte, ongi etorri, ողջու՜յն (voġčuyn) 🤗 What does @Wikipedia say about 29th March through the years 🏛️📜🗓️?

29th March 2023 🗓️ : Death - Vivan Sundaram Vivan Sundaram, Indian contemporary artist (b. 1943) "Vivan Sundaram (28 May 1943 – 29 March 2023) was an Indian contemporary artist. He worked in many different medias, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, installation, and video art, and his work was politically conscious and highly intertextual in nature. His work constantly..."

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29th March 2019 🗓️ : Death - Agnès Varda Agnès Varda, French film director (b. 1928) "Agnès Varda (French: [aɲɛs vaʁda] ; born Arlette Varda; 30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born film director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist with French and Greek origins. Varda's work employed location shooting in an era when the limitations of sound technology made it easier and..."

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29th March 2014 🗓️ : Event - Same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales took place following the passage of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013. "Same-sex marriage is legal in all parts of the United Kingdom. As marriage is a devolved legislative matter, different parts of the United Kingdom legalised at different times; it has been recognised and performed in England and Wales since March 2014, in Scotland since December 2014, and in..."

29th March 1974 🗓️ : Event - Shaanxi A group of farmers in the Chinese province of Shaanxi discovered a vast collection of terracotta statues (pictured) depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. "Shaanxi is a landlocked province of China. Officially part of Northwest China, it borders the province-level divisions of Shanxi (NE, E), Henan (E), Hubei (SE), Chongqing (S), Sichuan (SW), Gansu (W), Ningxia (NW) and Inner Mongolia (N). Shaanxi covers an area of over 205,000 km2 (79,151 sq mi) with..."

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29th March 1924 🗓️ : Death - Charles Villiers Stanford Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer and conductor (b. 1852) "Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (30 September 1852 – 29 March 1924) was an Anglo-Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Romantic era. Born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin, Stanford was educated at the University of Cambridge before studying music in Leipzig and..."

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29th March 1824 🗓️ : Birth - Ludwig Büchner Ludwig Büchner, German physiologist, physician, and philosopher (d. 1899) "Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig Büchner (29 March 1824 – 30 April 1899) was a German philosopher, physiologist and physician who became one of the exponents of 19th-century scientific materialism...."

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29th March 🗓️ : Holiday - Boganda Day (Central African Republic) "This is a list of public holidays in the Central African Republic..."

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History

November 22, 1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco Da Gama, leading a fleet of four ships, became the first to sail round the Cape of Good Hope, while searching for a sea route to India.

November 22, 1718 - Blackbeard the pirate (Edward Teach) was killed off the coast of North Carolina after a long and prosperous career. Lt. Govenor Alexander Spotswood of Virginia had sent two sloops to put an end to him. The sailors encountered Blackbeard and Lt. Robert Maynard killed him in the fight that followed.

November 22, 1935 - Trans-Pacific airmail service began as the China Clipper, a Pan American flying boat, took off from San Francisco, reaching the Philippines 59 hours later. The following year, commercial passenger service began.

November 22, 1943 - The Cairo Conference occurred as President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, met to discuss the war in the Pacific against Japan.

November 22, 1963 - At 12:30 p.m., on Elm Street in downtown Dallas, President John F. Kennedy's motorcade slowly approached a triple underpass. Shots rang out. The President was struck in the back, then in the head. He was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital where fifteen doctors tried to save him. At 1 p.m., John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, was pronounced dead. On board Air Force One, at 2:38 p.m., Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President.

November 22, 1975 - Juan Carlos was sworn in as King of Spain, following the death of General Franscisco Franco who had ruled as dictator since 1939.

November 22, 1990 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced she would resign after 11 years in office, the longest term of any British Prime Minister in the 20th century.

Birthday - Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970) was born in Lille, France. He led the Free French against the Nazis during World War II and later became President of France, serving from 1958-69.

Birthday - Barnstorming aviator Wiley Post (1898-1935) was born in Grand Plain, Texas. He was a self-taught pilot who became an international celebrity in the 1930s and co-authored Around the World in Eight Days. In 1935, Post and his friend Will Rogers began a flight to the Orient, however, the plane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska, killing both of them.

Birthday - British composer Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England. Best known for his operas including Peter Grimes and his choral works A Ceremony of Carols and War Requiem.