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Chinese American Politicians. Elaine Chao, Ed Jew, Steven Chu, Harry Lee,
Leland Yee, David Wu, Gary Locke, Daniel Akaka, Judy Chu
(ISBN: 9781155697628)
ISBN 10: 1155697626
ISBN 13: 9781155697628
竟然搜到了一本书，买来看看
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发帖数: 2741 | 2 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial
membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than
a million books without charge. Chapters: Elaine Chao, Ed Jew, Steven Chu,
Harry Lee, Leland Yee, David Wu, Gary Locke, Daniel Akaka, Judy Chu,
Margaret Chin, John Liu, Shien Biau Woo, Eric Mar, Fiona Ma, William Tong,
Hiram Fong, John Chiang, James Kealoha, Mae Yih, Jan C. Ting, Wilma Chan,
Ted Lieu, David Chiu, Matt Fong, Wing Luke, Peter Koo, March Fong Eu, Carmen
Chu, Susan C. Lee, Evan Low, David S. C. Chu, Carol Liu, Kansen Chu,
Michael Woo, Edmund C. Moy, Clayton Hee, Mike Eng, Otto Lee, Charlie Chong,
Ruby Chow, Paul Fong, Grace Meng, Jimmy Meng, Gordon Lau, Ellen Young.
Excerpt: Carmen Chu Carmen Chu (Chinese : ; pinyin : Zh Ji wén, born 1978
in Los Angeles, California ) is a member of the San Francisco Board of
Supervisors representing District 4 . In 2000, she earned a bachelor's
degree in public policy from Occidental College , and in 2003, earned a
master's degree in public policy from UC Berkeley . While in school, she
worked in the Board of Supervisors' Office of the Legislative Analyst.
Political career In 2004, she worked as a budget analyst in the Mayor's
Budget Office. More recently, she served as the deputy director in the Mayor
's Budget Office and has overseen Healthy San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom
's health care program. On September 25, 2007, she was appointed to replace
the embattled San Francisco Supervisor Ed Jew , who was then suspended. On
January 11, 2008, her interim appointment expired upon Jew's resignation.
The District 4 seat remained vacant for five and a half hours until Mayor
Newsom appointed her to succeed Jew for the remainder of Jew's term. Chu ran
for election after Jew's term expired, and on November 4, 2008 she was
elected by the voters as Supervisor of District 4 for the term January 2009
to January 2011. References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) Political
offices A ... | p*********y
发帖数: 2741 | 3 http://newamericamedia.org/2012/11/chinese-american-politics-in
New America Media, News Report, Peter Schurmann, Posted: Nov 08, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO – Barack Obama’s victory, the numbers show, is in large
measure thanks to the support he received from, among others, Hispanics,
Blacks, and women voters.
Less credited, however, are Asian Americans, who voted 72 percent in favor
of the president. While their numbers remain small, at just 5.8 percent of
the population, they are one of the fastest growing segments of American
society, according to a recent Pew study, having surpassed Hispanics as the
largest group of new immigrants. They are also highly educated, with nealry
50 percent of those 25 and older holding at least a bachelor's degree.
Such statistics help explain the steady rise in political leaders of Asian
descent in states like California, home to sizable Asian American
populations. And perhaps nowhere is that more clear than in the Chinese
community, where rapidly growing civic engagement also coincides with the
growing strength of the world’s number two superpower.
Last Sunday, the Chinese-language World Journal ran a full page spread
profiling 35 Chinese American candidates running for either local or
national office in the state. Names included Otto Lee and Jennifer Ong, both
of whom eventually lost in their bids for Congress and the State Assembly,
respectively.
But Tuesday’s results also showed a number of wins -- 15 in total --
including State Assemblyman Paul Fong and Grace Mah, elected to a seat on
the Santa Clara County Board of Education.
In San Francisco, where the Asian American population hovers around 36
percent, and where the first-ever Chinese American mayor was recently
elected, 10 Chinese American candidates vied for seats on just about every
branch of city government, from the Board of Supervisors to the Board of
Education and the community college Board of Trustees.
That unprecedented turnout, says Harvey Dong, who teaches Asian American and
Ethnic Studies at U.C. Berkeley, signals an awareness of the changing
demographics in both the state and nationwide, which in turn is fueling a “
rising confidence” among Asians, and particularly Chinese.
But it also comes following a hotly contested presidential race in which the
candidates strove to outdo one another in lambasting China, which was
portrayed by both as a major threat to America’s continued prosperity.
“On day one of my presidency,” promised Republican nominee Mitt Romney, “
I will label China a currency manipulator.” Though he now won’t get that
chance, Obama was no less strident in his denouncement of China where, as
one of his campaign ads warned, “cheaters” threaten American jobs.
China bashing, says Dong, poses a particular challenge for Chinese American
political hopefuls. "As Asian American candidates, whether they like it or
not, they are looked at a certain way," he notes, pointing out long-held
stereotypes of Asians as not entirely American. “Their loyalty would
definitely be questioned and challenged as they go higher up."
As an example, Dong points to the case of former U.C. Berkeley Chancellor
Chang-Lin Tien, who in 1996 was tapped and then later passed up by then
President Bill Clinton to become the nation’s first Asian American energy
secretary. Tien died in 2002. Steven Chu, Obama’s current energy secretary,
became the first Chinese American to serve in this post.
Recently released FBI documents show Tien became embroiled in what the Daily
Californian, which last month reported on the release of the documents,
called a “fear of China that consumed the United States in the latter half
of the 20th century.”
Judging from the recent campaign, that fear seems to be alive and well even
in the 21st.
A 2010 ad put out by the lobbying group Citizens Against Government Waste,
which ran again this past election, depicts a lecture hall 20 years into the
future. A speaker addresses a room of students, explaining in Mandarin how
it came to be that America now works for China. The camera pans across a
room full of chuckling Asian faces.
Dong says such ads, coupled with vitriolic campaign rhetoric, only help to
reaffirm the belief among non-Asians that Chinese and other Asians in the
United States are “perpetual foreigners.”
And it’s that attitude, says retired business consultant George Koo, which
continues to motivate Chinese Americans to enter the political arena.
Pointing to the 1999 federal indictment of nuclear physicist Wen Ho Lee –
who was widely seen as the victim of a racially motivated witch hunt -- Koo
says the event served as an “awakening” for aspiring political leaders
within the Chinese American community.
Lee, originally charged with passing state secrets to China, was eventually
found guilty of mishandling documents.
Koo, a member of the Committee of 100, which works to improve the political
stature of Asian Americans and U.S. relations with China, agrees with Dong
that political attacks on China could pose problems for Chinese American
politicians seeking higher office, especially in the country’s heartland.
“It may not be as much of a problem in California,” he explains, where the
Chinese community has deep roots and where voters are more exposed to
dealings with China. Nor in New York, which just elected its first-ever
Asian American congressperson in Grace Meng. “But in the south, and the
Midwest … if opponents play the China card, it could work.”
As for this past election, Koo says the level of antagonism against China
was worse than in previous races. “Candidates felt obliged to cater to
popular misconceptions,” he notes.
But with election results pointing to the growing clout of minority voters,
and with an emerging cohort of elected Chinese officials, Koo questions the
effectiveness of such a strategy in the long run. “We are going forward
toward a more pluralistic society,” he says. “The China bashing, the
ethnic bashing … it won’t pay off.”
Additional reporting by Summer Chiang and Vivian Po. | p*********y
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: http://newamericamedia.org/2012/11/chinese-american-politics-in
: New America Media, News Report, Peter Schurmann, Posted: Nov 08, 2012
: SAN FRANCISCO – Barack Obama’s victory, the numbers show, is in large
: measure thanks to the support he received from, among others, Hispanics,
: Blacks, and women voters.
: Less credited, however, are Asian Americans, who voted 72 percent in favor
: of the president. While their numbers remain small, at just 5.8 percent of
: the population, they are one of the fastest growing segments of American
: society, according to a recent Pew study, having surpassed Hispanics as the
: largest group of new immigrants. They are also highly educated, with nealry
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发帖数: 18403 | 5 Great! Please include judges and other elected officials:
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联邦第二巡回上诉法院法官的名字,Denny Chin，引起了俺的注意。马上查了一下，发
现他是第一个在第九联邦巡回上诉法院以外被任命为联邦上诉法院法官的亚裔，主持了
不少著名的案件。如果大家有孩子以后准备攻法律，他应该是个好榜样。
新闻链接：
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57612336-93/judge-dismisses-au
Denny Chin (陳卓光)的简介：
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny_Chin
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发帖数: 2741 | 6 Elaine Lan Chao (Chinese: 趙小蘭;[1] born March 26, 1953) served as the 24th
United States Secretary of Labor in the Cabinet of President George W. Bush
from 2001 to 2009. She was the first Asian Pacific American woman and first
Chinese American to be appointed to a President's cabinet in American
history.[2] Chao was the only cabinet member to serve under George W. Bush
for his entire administration.[3] She is married to U.S. Sen. Mitch
McConnell (R-Kentucky), the current U.S. Senate Minority Leader.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Chao
Elaine Lan Chao
served as the 24th United States Secretary of Labor in the Cabinet of
President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009. Wikipedia
Born: March 26, 1953 (age 60), Taipei
Spouse: Mitch McConnell (m. 1993)
Party: Republican Party
Previous office: United States Secretary of Labor (2001–2009)
Parents: Ruth Mulan Chu Chao, James S.C. Chao
Education: Harvard Business School, More | p*********y
发帖数: 2741 | 7 Edmund "Ed" Jew (simplified Chinese: 赵悦明; traditional Chinese: 趙悦明;
Mandarin Pinyin: Zhào Yuèmíng; Jyutping: ziu6 jyut6 ming4, born 1960 in
San Francisco, California) is an incarcerated former Chinese American
politician based in San Francisco. He graduated from San Francisco State
University with a degree in economics and later earned a masters degree in
business administration at Golden Gate University. After spending several
years as a businessman managing his family enterprises, he entered politics
in 1980s and went on to serve in various community organizations. In 1996,
he was the volunteer liaison for then District 4 supervisor Leland Yee. In
2002, Yee successfully ran for a seat in the California Assembly, and Jew
ran for Yee's seat on the Board of Supervisors in the 2002 election, but was
defeated. When Yee's successor Fiona Ma in 2006 ran for state assembly, Jew
again ran for supervisor in District 4, which comprises most of the Sunset
District. After winning a highly competitive election decided by instant-
runoff voting, he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Jew | p*********y
发帖数: 2741 | 8 Steven Chu (Chinese: 朱棣文; pinyin: Zhū Dìwén,[3][4][5][6][7] born
February 28, 1948[8]) is an American physicist who became the 12th United
States Secretary of Energy in 2009. Chu is known for his research at Bell
Labs in cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, which won him the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, along with his scientific colleagues Claude
Cohen-Tannoudji and William Daniel Phillips.[9] At the time of his
appointment as Energy Secretary, he was a professor of physics and molecular
and cellular biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the
director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where his research
was concerned primarily with the study of biological systems at the single
molecule level.[10] Previously, he had been a professor of physics at
Stanford University. He is a vocal advocate for more research into renewable
energy and nuclear power, arguing that a shift away from fossil fuels is
essential to combating climate change.[11][12][13] For example, he has
conceived of a global "glucose economy", a form of a low-carbon economy, in
which glucose from tropical plants is shipped around like oil is today.[14]
On February 1, 2013, he announced he would not serve for the President's
second term and resigned on April 22, 2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Chu | p*********y
发帖数: 2741 | 9 Harry Lee (August 27, 1932 – October 8, 2007) was the long-time sheriff of
Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. He was first elected in 1979, as the 30th
Sheriff,[1] and was re-elected six times, serving twenty eight years and six
months.[2] He is the older brother of Playboy magazine's first Asian-
American centerfold, China Lee.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Lee_%28sheriff%29 | p*********y
发帖数: 2741 | 10 Leland Yee (Chinese: 余胤良; pinyin: Yú Yìnliáng, born November 20, 1948)
is a California State Senator for District 8, which represents a large
portion of east central California. Before redistricting in 2011, Yee
represented District 8 in San Francisco.[1] Prior to becoming state senator,
Yee was a California State Assemblyman, Supervisor of San Francisco's
Sunset District, and was a member and President of the San Francisco School
Board. In 2004 Yee became the first Asian American to be appointed Speaker
pro Tempore, making him the second highest ranking Democrat of the
California State Assembly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Yee | | | p*********y
发帖数: 2741 | 11 David Wu (traditional Chinese: 吳振偉; simplified Chinese: 吴振伟; pinyin: W
ú Zhènwěi; born April 8, 1955) is an American politician who served as
the U.S. representative for Oregon's 1st congressional district from 1999 to
2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
As a child of immigrants from Taiwan, Wu was the first Chinese American[1]
and Taiwanese-American to serve in the House of Representatives. In the wake
of accusations that he made unwanted sexual advances on the teenage
daughter of a campaign donor and friend, Wu announced that he would resign
from office following resolution of the debt ceiling crisis; he submitted
his resignation on August 3, 2011.[2][3] A special election was held on
January 31, 2012, to fill the vacancy in advance of the regular 2012
election.[4] Democrat Suzanne Bonamici defeated Republican challenger Rob
Cornilles to win this special election.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wu | p*********y
发帖数: 2741 | 12 Gary Faye Locke (born January 21, 1950) is an American politician who has
been the United States Ambassador to China since 2011. He was the 21st
Governor of Washington from 1997 to 2005 and served in the Obama
administration as United States Secretary of Commerce from 2009 to 2011. He
was appointed as Ambassador to China on August 1, 2011.
He was the first Governor of a state in the Continental United States of
Asian descent, and is the only Chinese American ever to serve as a Governor,
and the first Chinese American to serve as U.S. Ambassador to China.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Locke | p*********y
发帖数: 2741 | 13 Daniel Kahikina Akaka (/əˈkɑːkə/;[3] born September 11,
1924) is an American politician who was a United States Senator from Hawaii
from 1990 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Akaka is the first U.S
. Senator of Native Hawaiian ancestry.[4]
Born in Honolulu, he served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World
War II. He attended the University of Hawaii, where he received his
bachelor's and master's degrees. Originally a high school teacher, he went
on to serve as a principal for six years. In 1969, he was hired by the
Department of Education as a chief program planner. In the 1970s, he served
in various governmental positions. He was first elected to the United States
House of Representatives in 1976 to represent Hawaii's Second Congressional
District, and he served for 13 years. In 1990, he was appointed to the U.S.
Senate to succeed the deceased Spark Matsunaga. Akaka would later be re-
elected to three full terms. In March 2011, he announced that he would not
run for re-election in 2012.[5] After fellow senator Daniel Inouye died on
December 17, 2012, Akaka became the state's senior senator, and remained so
briefly until he left office on January 3, 2013.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Akaka | p*********y
发帖数: 2741 | 14 Judy May Chu (Chinese: 趙美心, born July 7, 1953)[2] is the U.S.
Representative for California's 27th congressional district, serving in
Congress since 2009. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Chu was previously Chair of the California Board of Equalization,
representing the 4th District.[3] She had also served on the Garvey Unified
School District Board of Education, the Monterey Park City Council (with
five terms as mayor) and the California State Assembly.
Chu ran in the 32nd congressional district special election for the seat
that was vacated by Hilda Solis after she was confirmed as Barack Obama's U.
S. Secretary of Labor in 2009.[4] She defeated Republican candidate Betty
Tom Chu and Libertarian candidate Christopher Agrella in a runoff election
on July 14, 2009.[5] She is the first Chinese American woman ever elected to
the U.S. Congress.[6] Chu was redistricted to the 27th District in 2012,
but was still re-elected to a third term, defeating Republican challenger
Jack Orswell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Chu | p*********y
发帖数: 2741 | 15 Margaret Chin (Chinese: 陳倩雯) is a New York City-based American politician
. A Democrat, she was elected to the New York City Council on November 3,
2009, to represent District 1 in Lower Manhattan,[1] which includes, amongst
other neighborhoods and sites, Chinatown, the Financial District, City Hall
, and the site of the World Trade Center. Chin immigrated to the United
States when she was nine years old and was raised in Chinatown.[3] She is
the first Asian American and the first Chinese American elected to represent
New York City's Chinatown in the city council, and the first Asian American
woman elected to the city council.[4] She and Queens Council member Peter
Koo comprise the Asian American delegation of the city council. Current New
York City Comptroller John Liu also served in the city council from 2002 to
2009 as its sole Asian American member.[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Chin | p*********y
发帖数: 2741 | 16 John Chun Liu (born January 8, 1967) is a New York City elected official,
serving as New York City Comptroller. He was also a candidate in the 2013
New York City mayoral election. Liu had served on the New York City Council
representing District 20, and was elected to the City Council in 2001 to
represent northeast Queens, then was re-elected in 2003 and 2005.
Liu entered the New York City Comptroller election in 2009 and won the race
on November 3, 2009, becoming the first Asian American to be elected to a
city-wide office in New York City.[1][2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Liu | p*********y
发帖数: 2741 | 17 Shien Biau "S.B." Woo (born 1937) is an American professor and politician
from Newark, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the
Democratic Party and served as the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Delaware.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shien_Biau_Woo | p*********y
发帖数: 2741 | 18 Eric Lee Mar (Chinese: 馬兆光; pinyin: Mǎ Zhàoguāng, born August 15, 1962
) is a California politician. He served on the San Francisco Board of
Education and San Francisco County Democratic Central Committee. In 2008, he
was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He represents
District 1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Mar | p*********y
发帖数: 2741 | 19 Fiona Ma (simplified Chinese: 马世云; traditional Chinese: 馬世雲; pinyin: M
ǎ Shìyún; born March 4, 1966) is an American politician and a former
member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, California State Assembly
and is currently the spokesperson for the San Francisco Hep B Free campaign.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Ma | p*********y
发帖数: 2741 | 20 William Morten Tong Chinese: 湯偉麟(born c. 1973[1]) serves as a member of
the Connecticut House of Representatives. First elected in November 2006, he
represents the 147th district, which includes parts of Stamford and New
Canaan. Geographically the 147th is the largest district in Stamford, and
includes Westover, North Stamford, Scofieldtown, as well as the western side
of New Canaan.
Tong is the first Asian American to serve in the Connecticut General
Assembly, and the first Asian American to be elected at the state level in
Connecticut's history. He is the Vice-Chairman of the Energy and Technology
committee[2] and serves on the General Law and Judiciary committees.
Tong was the first Connecticut legislator to endorse then-Senator Barack
Obama for President.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tong | | | p*********y
发帖数: 2741 | 21 Hiram Leong Fong (Chinese: 鄺友良; pinyin: Kuàng Yǒuliáng; Cantonese Yale
, 2004), was an American businessman and politician from Hawaii. He is most
notable for his service as Republican United States Senator from 1959 to
1977, and for being the first Asian American and Chinese American to be
elected as such. In 1964, Fong became the first Asian American to run for
his party's nomination for President of the United States. As of 2012, he is
the only Republican to ever hold a Senate seat from Hawaii and the only
Asian American to actively seek the Presidential nomination of the
Republican Party. He would be followed by Patsy Mink, also from Hawaii, who
sought the nomination of the Democratic Party in 1972.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Fong | p*********y
发帖数: 2741 | 22 John Chiang (Chinese: 江俊輝; pinyin: Jiāng Jùnhuī; born July 31, 1962 in
New York City) is a Democratic politician and has been California State
Controller since January 8, 2007. He previously served as Chair of the
California Board of Equalization and represented the Fourth District,
primarily serving southern Los Angeles County. Chiang is unable to run for a
third term in 2014 due to term limits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chiang_%28California_politici | p*********y
发帖数: 2741 | 23 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Meng
Grace Meng (born October 1, 1975[1])(Chinese: 孟昭文; pinyin: Mèng Zhāowé
n) is an American lawyer and a Democratic member of the United States House
of Representatives, representing New York's 6th congressional district in
the New York City borough of Queens, which includes neighborhoods like
Bayside, Flushing, Forest Hills, Rego Park, Fresh Meadows, Glendale, Kew
Gardens and Maspeth. Previously, she served as a member of the New York
State Assembly, representing the 22nd assembly district in Flushing, Queens,
New York. | o**********e
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