Afternoon, good afternoon. Welcome to the chinese historical society of america. My name is charlie chin, i m officially listed here as artistinresidence but i do double duty as a historian for a very simple reason. As most of you know, artists do not make any money whatsoever. But historians are underpaid, so it s actually a step up. [laughs] what we are going to do today is we re going to take an overview of chinese american history. And for that will be doing to different sections. One will be an inhouse docent tour. And the other will be a street tour where we will look at china town today. For your sake, of general education i should point out that we are in a building that was the old chinatown why wcs. It was built and designed in 1932 by julia morgan. A very famous female architect, who, amongst other things was a force endorsed by the why wcs for obvious reasons. The organization of the chinese historical society of america, which was founded in 1963. It s purpose was to deal
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the rise of the global power during world war i. describing japan as one of the few countries pulled into the r#lict as an because of a kcolonyial relationship. this is about 50 minutes. okay. we ll shift our focus here a little bit to east asia. professor frederick dickinson teaches japanese history at the university of pennsylvania. he has m.a. degrees from kyoto university in japan where he s lived for quite a while. also yale university where he has a ph.d. in history. he s been a visiting professor at institutions in japan, in belgium, also at waswart more, d japan, the great war, 1914 to 1939. i m sorry, 1919. and another one world war i in the triumph of a new japan 1919 to 1930. you can speak as you can see here. the great war on the great war as world war, japanese belligerence and the dawn of an asia-pacific world. welcome to professor dickinson. [ applause ] thanks very much. and thanks to all of you for sticking around for the final bash here. i m honored and
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