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Portraits of pride / Chinese Historical Society of Southern California.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Chinese Historical Society of Southern California.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Chinese Americans--California--Biography.
Chinese Americans.
Professional employees.
California.
United States.
Chinese Americans--Biography.
Scholars--United States--Biography.
Scholars.
Scientists--United States--Biography.
Scientists.
Professional employees--United States--Biography.
California--Biography.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
xv, 17-227 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 27 cm + 1 CD
Edition:
Revised.
Place of Publication:
Los Angeles : Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, 2006.
Contents:
Prologue / Wing Mar
Tribute / Diane Feinstein
About the editor
A prelude to the portraits / Edgar Wong, Frank Bupp
Comments / Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
Acknowledgements / Wing Mar
Allen Gee : hard work gets results
John B. Lee : husband, father, friend
Edgar Y. Wong : friend, mentor and noble thinker
Dora Ames Lee : "I will be a doctor"
Lois Wong Chi : award-winning professor and researcher
Tung-Hua Lin : scientist-engineer-professor
Shiu Chi (Ray) Lau : a tale of two destinies
Ko Kuei Chen : a pharmacologist's pharmacologist
Lawrence Jue : an update of "my memoirs"
Eddie Leong Way : research pharmacologist and champion terpsichorean
Kenow Lou : his life with particle accelerators
Kingdon Lou : the Navy was his second chance
K.C. Li : miner, industrialist, patriot and father
Maggie Gee : bomber pilot and atom smasher
Steve and Milly Liu : two valued and cherished gifts
Tom Woo : networker extraordinaire
Ernest K. Lum : a compete engineer
Steve and Ella Leong : our successful partnership
Gaing Wing Chan : a California family legacy
James Bok Wong : a special corporate economist
Ralph Fong : Alameda to Berkeley
William F. Chew : from railroads to aerospace and back to railroads
Vernon Chong : into the wild blue yonder
Choy G. Wy : a glimpse into an architect's 97 years
Jim Hong : go East and fly high
Ruby Kwong Lee : many paths to fulfillment
Annie Chin Siu : a first and an original
Julius F. Sue : L.A. Chinatown's medical patriarch
Choh Hao Li : the master chemist of the master gland
Keh-Ming Lin : journey to the West
Philip P. Choy : an architect's passion for design and preservation
Luther Lee, Jr. : from restaurants to aerospace in three generations
Timothy C. Chew : a man of all seasons
Paul Louie and Emma Woo Louie : something about our lives
William Fong : a medical visionary
Roots, challenges and fulfillment / Joyce Mar
Epilogue / Him Mark Lai
Appendix : historical material / Edgar Wong.
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
0930377982
9780930377984
OCLC:
75646155

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