Chineseamericans who served in the u. S. Armed forces during World War ii. Welcome, everyone. Thank you for joining us this evening. Thanks for having us. I want to begin by talking to samantha. Samantha, how did your work on the stories of chineseamerican veterans begin . This actually started this stems from a documentary i did on the Mississippi Delta chinese and i needed to find the right hook to tell the story of the chineseamericans in the Mississippi Delta. Chineseamerican history is not sexy, so it took me almost 20 years to find the right way to tell the story compelling enough to bring in a full audience. And i had the good fortune of Meeting Dr. Gong, who had done a tremendous amount of research on the veterans, the service personnel from the Mississippi Delta. And from there, we discussed and talked about how to create a Threepart Series that aired on pbs on the chinese in the Mississippi Delta and that got me interested in the World War ii veterans. So Honor And Duty is re
I want to begin by talking to samantha. How did your work on these stories of chinese american veterans begin . This actually stems from a documentary i did on the Mississippi Delta chinese. And i needed to find the right hook to tell the story of the chinese americans in the Mississippi Delta. Chinese american history is not sexy, so it took me almost 20 years to find the right way to tell this story, compelling enough to bring it a full audience. And i had the good fortune of Meeting Doctor Gwendolyn gong who did a tremendous amount of research on the veterans, service personnel from Mississippi Delta. And from there, we discussed and talked about how to create a three Part Series that aired on pbs on the chinese and Mississippi Delta, and that got me interested in the World War ii veterans. So, Honor And Duty is really a compendium that all 22,000 plus chinese americans that served in World War ii, is that correct . Thats correct. This research was conducted over three years time. A
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