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Post by FayChee on Jul 15, 2013 21:58:21 GMT -5
My Chinese nephew in Tennessee really liked the book and is arranging for our first meeting in NYC. Red Envelope time! Should I pay for their hotel? I am going to treat everyone to dinner after we leave the cemetery......what is expected of the Matriarch???
Fay Chee
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Post by lachinatown on Jul 15, 2013 23:21:02 GMT -5
Fay Chee,
I don't think you need to pay for their hotel, unless you know they are very poor and can't afford to pay for their own stay. Yes, take them to dinner and to any culture places or events that they would like to go to. A tour of the city would be nice if they have not been there or have not been there for a long time. In the old days, I would walk Central Park, but now not so sure.
Have you been to LA Chinatown? The "New Chinatown" (now 75 years old, after having to move out to make way for the Union Station), had one of its founders a Peter Soo Hoo.
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Post by FayChee on Jul 16, 2013 8:46:00 GMT -5
Lachinatown, I have never been to Los Angeles.....I have only been once to San Diego to take my board exam, but didn't get out of the hotel to explore, and once to Seattle to visit a friend. I have limited travel experience.
I wonder what village Peter Soo Hoo came from? I guess that I can google his history. When my dad first came to the US in 1909, he stayed with his father(paperson father)in Chico CA, worked in his store and went to night school for two years to learn English. At least that is what he told the INS interrogators. I wonder who he bought his 'Lew' identity from....it must have been a family close to his village that his real father knew.
Fay Chee
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Post by lachinatown on Jul 16, 2013 11:55:06 GMT -5
Fay Chee, I think Peter Soo Hoo Sr. was born here. He was an engineer with LA's Dept. of Water and Power, and was valuable because he could speak English. I don't think we know where his family came from, most likely either Kaiping or Taishan. His son, Peter Soo Hoo Jr. passed away in 2011. The grandson Jon Soo HooClick on name is a famous sports photographer, almost 30 years with the LA Dodgers. He also did work for other major league sports teams. The family must have been here maybe doing the Chinese massacre of 1871Click title, which led to the Chinese Exclusion ActClick title. So there is a good chance that they came from the same area. Did you see Seattle's Chinatown? They have nice one there. Former governor of Washington Gary Locke's family came from Taishan. [update:] Peter Soo Hoo's "mother was a Chinese American who grew up in Santa Barbara. His father came to the United States as a boy of about 11 from Hoiping, China. He settled in Ventura where he worked at a cigar factory and later met his wife. Eventually, the couple moved down to Los Angeles and settled in Old Chinatown. In an area made up mostly of crowded living quarters, they lived in one of Chinatown’s few houses."
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Post by FayChee on Jul 16, 2013 21:07:00 GMT -5
Thanks for the background information on Peter Soo Hoo Jr and Sr. Lachinatown.
Yes, I did walk to the Seattle Chinatown and I thought to myself that it was so much smaller than the Chinatown in Manhattan, but I doubt that I saw all of it, as I was alone and didn't really know where to go. Fay Chee
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