What a fortnight! Southern hospitality in the land of cotton, the blues, and Chinese grocery stores. I got to visit several stores and see many of the small towns that I knew well by name. I had a sense of deja vu from all the research I had done for writing Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton, but it was still worthwhile to actually be there and see the remnants of the past as vividly sensed by seeing the empty shells of formerly active and vibrant grocery stores now deserted and crumbling.
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Chinese American History with a focus on immigrant family life experiences
1/7/11
1/5/11
Marin Chinese Cultural Group, June 2008
I had the opportunity to speak about Southern Fried Rice in 2008 to the Marin Chinese Culture group at a potluck dinner held in the lovely home of a member just north of San Rafael.
1/4/11
Chinese American Museum of Chicago, April 2008
I was in town to attend the Asian American Studies Conference the day prior to my presentation on Chinese Laundries at the Chinatown Museum. I met several of the Board members at the conference and they took me to a wonderful dinner in Chinatown that evening; the next morning I was treated to a delicious dim sum lunch. All this hospitality, and I hadn't even given my talk yet!
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Chinese Professional Club, Houston, April 2008
Philip Sun, brother of Sylvia Sun Minnick, invited me to speak in Houston. A large turnout of about 140 people showed up, the largest of all my audiences, at the dinner talk, including one of my former star students at Long Beach who was on the faculty at the University of Houston.
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1/3/11
Desert Jade Women's Group, Phoenix, March 8, 2008
What started out disasterously ended well. The talk had to be delayed a week due to a death, and then on the new date, we had to delay 30 mins. in the wake of a second funeral that day. But the talk went very well and a large audience showed up. I also got to speak to students in an Asian American studies class at Arizona State University.
1/2/11
Lake Havasu City Writers Group, Az
My friend, and contributor to the Chinese laundry book, Lucy Leonard, arranged for me to come speak to her Writers Group. I spoke about Southern Fried Rice and also gave a workshop on software tools for writers and the process of publishing on demand.
12/27/10
Chi-Am Circle, Cupertino, Aug. 21, 2007
I had the opportunity to give a dinner talk about Southern Fried Rice to an appreciative audience of about 60 members and guests of the Chi-Am Circle, at a Chinese restaurant in Cupertino in 2007, which included my two sisters and several long-time friends from college days.
Here are some excerpts of the talk
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