Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
The genealogies have long been used by historians, archaeologists, sociologists, ethnologists, and demographers in their investigation of past human behavior on social and historical evidences relating to a lineage organization or a clan. Chinese genealogical records, also called pudie 譜牒, zongpu 宗譜, zupu 族譜, jiapu 家譜, zipu 支譜, or jiacheng 家乗, has been used for … Read more
In 1996 Sir Geoffrey Lloyd published a comparative study of ancient science east and west: Adversaries and Authorities. Investigations into Ancient Greek and Chinese Science. In this book he argues that Greek science was successful by virtue of its adversarial nature, whereas Chinese science was better described as authoritarian in character. But to what extent … Read more
Prof. Kwong will focus his presentation on the current issues affecting Asian American studies, and the need for a new civil rights agenda in the United States. Here is the definitive portrait of Chinese America, charting 150 years of American history from the Chinese frontiersmen of the Wild West to the high-tech transnationals of today’s … Read more
Finding the most effective ways to teach and learn Chinese characters is a challenge faced by beginning-level instructors and students. Training to become fluent in character recognition is the first step students must take if they want to read Chinese texts and to achieve an advanced level of literacy in Chinese. To help students overcome … Read more
A wave of costume drama serials began to dominate dramatic programming in Chinese primetime television in the mid 1990s. Such drama serials featured historical figures and events of glorious bygone dynasties. The trend climaxed in the late 1990s and the early 2000s with the saturation of palace drama set in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), what … Read more
En Route To Lhasa – In 2000, a group of Chinese American Buddhists participated in a pilgrimage to Nepal and Tibet. They crossed the Himalaya and visited many rarely seen temples and caves where famous Buddhist practitioners stayed. The video is a montage of this memorable journey, to a place where his holiness, the Dalai … Read more