To celebrate the annual Autumn Moon Festival, the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center at 1288 W. River Road will offer a full day of Chinese-American history from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 25.
The program will begin with a symposium, "Watching the Same Moon," that will explore the immigration of Chinese to the Tucson area from California and Mexico.
Speakers will include professor Evelyn Hu-Hart of Brown University, professor Grace Peña Delgado of Pennsylvania State University, Li Yang of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, author Sylvia Sun Minnick of Stockton, Calif., local archaeologist Homer Thiel, and Lincoln Chin, a well-known member of the Tucson Chinese community.
The symposium is free to students and members of the Tucson Chinese Association. It's $5 for others.
The symposium will be followed by a book signing with Christopher Corbett, author of "The Poker Bride," which concerns Chinese-Americans in the Old West.
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Students will report on their interviews of seniors in the Tucson Chinese Center's Pilot Oral History Program, followed by the grand opening of an exhibition of Chinese American historic archives 1870-1945, in partnership with the Arizona Historical Society, as well as photos and memorabilia of local Chinese World War II veterans.
A dim sum lunch may be purchased for $10. To register, call the Chinese Cultural Center at 292-6900.
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