Chinese People in the News

[lachinatown]

RIP to Dr. Bobby Fong, former president of Butler University and Collegeville of Pennsylvania, who died Monday, Sept. 8, 2014.

He was born in Oakland, California to Chinese immigrants.

He considered divinity school before accepting a full scholarship to Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude. He then went on to earn his doctorate in English Literature from UCLA, becoming an expert on Oscar Wilde.

www.wthr.com/story/26474153/2014/09/08/former-butler-university-president-bobby-fong-dies

[douglaslam]

I only heard of Butler University very recently. I guess you are not likely to find radical student activism in a very conservative community-based university.

[lachinatown]

Their basketball team played in the national Championship game twice, losing to Duke in 2010 and losing to Connecticut in 2011.
Not bad, the second best college team in the USA two times.

[lachinatown]

Casting Call:

"An Emmy-award winning TV production company is seeking an SF-Bay Area ceramicist/ceramics artist to participate in our next feature-length travel documentary to learn from a nationally recognized "Heir to Chinese Porcelain" in China. The show will be released to PBS stations nationwide.
"

sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/vol/4660941120.html

[amy]

Excerpt from an episode of the Henry Louis Gates Show "FINDING YOUR ROOTS" with Chinese American celebrity chef Ming Tsai:

[lachinatown]

Yongle Encyclopedia (Yongle dadian 永樂大典), dating from around 1562

Huntington [Library] Curators Uncover Unique Volume Comprising Two Sections of a 16th-Century Chinese Encyclopedia

huntington.org/WebAssets/Templates/content.aspx?id=17577#update

[Doug 周]

Amy's clip is a preview.

Henry Louis Gates PBS genealogy series regarding particular subjects concerning Chinese genealogy.

Season 2, episode 5 of Finding Your Roots, the full episode online. Ming Tsai's interviews are mixed within this episode shared with two other American chefs.

www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/melting-pot-full-episode/12093/
www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/ming-tsais-ancestral-homeland/12005/

This last one may expire 21 NOV 2014

video.pbs.org/video/2365345749/

Also of interest to Chinese genealogy:

Comipliation of the clips of older 2010 Finding Your Roots of Yo-Yo Ma's interview:

www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/profiles/yo-yo-ma/7/

The actual video segment where Henry Louis Gate's shares the discovery of Ma's Zupu
at 2:40 minutes into the video is the discovery of Ma's Zupu. You can download these as a .MOV file in clip #3.
www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/lessons/exploring-the-past/video-segments/41/

These websites are hard to navigate. I cannot seem to embed clips from the PBS websites