Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
David Cheng: In our study, we studied what we need to do in terms of assessing the needs of Asian and Asian American students in CUNY. And this is a very selective colloquium; all of you here have been invited, so you are sort of the chosen few that we feel you can contribute to … Read more
Betty Lee Sung : Most of them had jobs after school and they work, sometimes twenty to thirty hours a week. So this was a big problem… nobody knows what was happening with them. Some of the other problems with the students are, that they don’t take part in any activities outside of school. The … Read more
Thomas Tam: This is the final summary session. Before I ask Professor Irene Chung to come up and let us know about what their group had talked about, I just want to remind you that we do have an evaluation form here, so we will appreciate it if you can fill it out and really … Read more
This lecture is based on a book that Dr. Lee has recently published ‘The Bible and the Gun: Christianity in South China, 1860-1900’ (2003). Drawing on unpublished Chinese archival materials and ethnographic data collected by him at several Christian villages in Guangdong Province, he argues that Christianity became far more indigenous in China than has … Read more
The familiar debate over language and thought rears its head again with the publication of William C. Hannas’s controversial book, “The Writing on the Wall: How Asian Orthography Curbs Creativity” (University of Pennsylvania Press). In brief, Hannas contends that the writing systems of China, Japan, and Korea are inherently deterrent to abstract construction and those … Read more