Chinese American: 2007 Archives

Today I went to a lunch thing, a Roots program reunion in honor of Him Mark. Him Mark is basically THE guy who got the field of Chinese American history going. My contact with him is through setting up the Roots village database:

http://www.c-c-c.org/villagedb/search.cgi

He's actually very inspiring. He knows pretty much everything, and he's been collecting materials on Chinese America for most of his life. He's donating his collection to the Ethnic Studies Library here at UC Berkeley.

I found an interview with him from 2003, published in The Public Historian. It's autobiographical, and a fascinating read:

We talked a little bit today about migration history. He said it would be interesting to map out where all the clans were, just to see the geographic distribution. This shouldn't be too hard, if we fiddle with the database, since the map locations are all in there...