4/10: CAPASUS Webinar Series #3 內容精彩!爆滿!成功!

吸睛的眼球秘史—從名人八卦談你不能不知道的眼科疾病
The Secret History of Eyes: From Historical Figures to the Eye Diseases That You Must Know

講者: Wei-Li Chen, MD., Ph.D 陳偉勵 (陳映瞳)教授/醫師, National Taiwan University and National Taiwan University Hospital
時間: April 10 (Saturday) at 10:00 AM (Eastern Time, US and Canada)
地點: Webinar via Zoom, The webinar will be in Chinese and there will not be recordings of this event (研討會將全程中文進行且無錄影)

Dr. Wei-Li Chen is a winner of the Taipei Literature Award and the Taiwan Literature Award. A prolific writer, Dr. Chen applies her expertise and insightful analysis to write for Tianxia magazine and The Mandarin Daily Newspaper particularly on students’ learning experiences and child-rearing. In this webinar, Dr. Chen will bring her expertise and cultural interest together to generate our audience’s interest in medical history.

陳偉勵(陳映瞳)教授是台大醫學院的教授與台大醫院眼科醫師,更是台北文學獎與台灣文學獎得主。身為一位多產的作家,陳教授出書並為天下雜誌以及國語日報撰稿,其細膩的文筆處處展現著她在醫學上敏銳觀察能力,針對學生的學習能力與親子關係提出風趣幽默的溫暖建言。陳教授將結合她的醫學專長與對歷史文化的興趣,介紹醫學史中的眼科疾病。

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What You Should Know About Asian Americans…

What You Should Know About Asian Americans…

 

by Catherine Chang
President of CAPASUS, 2021-2022

Asian Americans are Americans. Constituting 5.6% of the American population in 2019, Asian Americans work hard, study hard, and live hard to contribute to the United States and to be recognized. The stereotypes and misconceptions about Asian Americans, which are abundant in American society since the 19th century, continue to divide people living on this free land. The American Dream that all Asian Americans hold up is the guarantee of the unalienable rights of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” revealed in the Declaration of Independence. To realize this dream, it is a must for all Americans, including Asian Americans, to know the life experiences of Asian Americans and the roots of anti-Asian violence in American history.

Therefore, we collect some information below for your information. We appreciate very much the contribution and assistance of our CAPASUS members to put together this list: They are Jimmy Chao, Esther Chiu, Mac Liu, Oliver Tu, and Ray Wang (in the alphabetical order of the last names). The first few parts – websites, articles, videos, and articles – are brief. If you are interested in learning more, welcome to move on to the section of books in the 2nd half of this document. While there are much more articles, links, videos, and books out there, we hope this list will help you to build the foundation.

As William Wordsworth said, “To begin, begin.”

Websites of Museums and History

  1. Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (https://smithsonianapa.org/)
  2. National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (https://www.ncapaonline.org/dayofaction/)
  3. Media Action Network for Asian Americans (https://manaa.org/)
  4. Bystander Resources (https://www.ihollaback.org/bystander-resources/)
  5. “Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882.” History Channel, Sep 13, 2019 [Aug 24, 2018] (https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/chinese-exclusion-act-1882)
  6. “The Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act).” Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute, United States Department of State (https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/immigration-act)
  7. “Japanese Internment Camps.” History Channel, February 21, 2020 [October 29, 2009] (https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation)
  8. The Chinese American Museum (https://camla.org/)
  9. Chinese American Museum of Chicago (https://ccamuseum.org/)

Other Organizations

  1. Asian Americans Advancing Justice (https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/)
  2. Asian Mental Health Collective (https://www.asianmhc.org/)
  3. Stop AAPI Hate (https://stopaapihate.org/)
  4. Stand Against Hatred (https://www.standagainsthatred.org/)
  5. National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association (https://www.naapimha.org/)

The AAPI Community Fund (https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-aapi-community-fund)

Videos

  1. Asian Americans. Episode 1: Breaking Ground.” PBS. https://youtu.be/SkIjSx2Ax0U
  2. Asian Americans. Episode 2: Question of Loyalty.” PBS. https://youtu.be/BBk9gbKsT6I
  3. Asian Americans. Episode 3: Good Americans.” PBS. https://youtu.e/2n7xgho1glo
  4. Asian Americans. Episode 4: Generation Rising.” PBS. https://youtu.be/ykXkit5hvJ8
  5. Asian Americans. Episode 5: Breaking Through.” PBS. https://youtu.be/BloTRK7sPk8
  6. “Rise in Anti-Asian Violence with actors Daniel Dae Kim and Daniel Wu – Race in America.” Washington Post March 3, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT1mDgDjJ5g
  7. “Historian Erika Lee & Activist Helen Zia on Rise in Anti-Asian Violence,” Washington Post March 8, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoQdpA6VMdw
  8. “Asian American/Pacific Islander Affairs Advisory Committee Meeting.” SC Commission for Minority Affairs. March 25, 2021. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmxQa9PCG_Y&list=PLm8uu2booPIENdA26lfHlK3xSFthktPX3)
  9. “The Chinese Exclusion Act.” A Special Presentation of American Experience. Directed by Ric Burns and Li-Shin Yu. PBS, 2017. 160 minutes. (available in DVD for sale)
  10. “Income and Education Levels Divide Asian American Community.” CBS News. March 23, 2021. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFiu2iSZJ9w)

Articles

Race vs. Ethnicity: Are Asians a race or ethnicity? In general, race and ethnicity are two different concepts. However, both are social constructs as their meanings are reshaped all the time.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/race-ethnicity?loggedin=true

Hate Crimes against Asian Americans
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7790522/

Voices from the AAPI Groups in South Carolina
‘Enough Is Enough’: Fighting Racism against the Asian Community in South Carolina.” News 19, March 26, 2021. (https://www.wltx.com/article/news/local/combatting-asian-hate-midlands/101-0eaf524d-2f43-4e2b-a13e-af2ff7696e68)

If you want more detailed and academic books on Chinese Americans and Asian Americans in general, here they are.

Books

Cassel, Susie Lan ed. The Chinese in America: A History from Gold Mountain to the New Millennium. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press, 2002.

Hsu, Madeline Y. The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.

Kurashige, Lon ed. Pacific America: Histories of Transoceanic Crossings. University of Hawaii Press, 2017.

Kwong, Peter, and Dušanka Miščević. Chinese American: The Untold Story of America’s Oldest New Community. New York: The New Press, 2005.

Ling, Huping. Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and Their Lives. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.

Liu, Haiming. The Transnational History of a Chinese Family: Immigrant Letters, Family Business, and Reverse Migration. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005.

Loewen, James W. The Mississippi Chinese between Black and White. Second Edition. Long Grove: Waveland Press, Inc., 1988 [1971].

Ma, Laurence J. C. and Carolyn Cartier eds. The Chinese Diaspora: Space, Place, Mobility, and Identity. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003.

Masuoka, Natalie, and Jane Junn. The Politics of Belonging: Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

McKeown, Adam M. Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.

Pan, Lynn. Sons of the Yellow Emperor: A History of the Chinese Diaspora. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1990.

Tchen, John Kuo Wei, and Dylan Yeats eds. Yellow Peril! An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear. London: Verso, 2014.

Wong, Janelle S., S. Karthick Ramakrishman, Taeku Lee, and Jane Junn. Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and their Political Identifies. Russell Sage Foundation, 2011.

Yung, Judy. Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

[Many more books, book chapters, and journal articles about transnational migration, including labor migration and marriage migration, are not listed here.]

JOINT STATEMENT FROM THE TAIWANESE COMMUNITIES

JOINT STATEMENT FROM THE TAIWANESE COMMUNITIES

We, the representatives of Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce of Gainesville Georgia (TCCGG), Global Federation of Chinese Business Women of Atlanta (GFCBWA-ATL), the Chinese-American Academic and Professional Association in Southeastern United States (CAPASUS), Monte Jade Science & Technology Association of Southeastern Region (MJSTA), and Asian Pacific American Advocates Georgia (OCA) express strong condemnation of shootings of March 16, 2021, when several Asian women were killed. We also strongly encourage the local officials to fully investigate this crime, to protect the life and property rights of all people, and to consider the century-long racial bias against Asian Americans that has unconsciously imprinted in the minds of some people but has never been well addressed in society and in education.

We want to express our deepest condolences to the loss of the victims’ families. These victims were not rich and stayed in the bottom of US social hierarchy, but they worked hard to earn a living in this land of liberty, hoping to fulfill their American Dreams. They did not deserve to die this way. They died because the Asian massage or spa businesses were the easy targets. They died because the society did not know the fear hidden behind the silence and in everyday life of many Asian Americans. Injustice is here.

This tragedy brings chills to the Asian community; however, we the American people cannot allow such injustice to happen again. Regardless of the shooter’s motive, the police need to be vigilant in their investigations and uncover his motive and put our Asian community at ease as soon as possible. Asians have long been seen as a “model” minority because we do not “create” problems and because we seemly accept whatever treatment from the government or the society. This has to stop. We demand the government officials conduct a proper investigation

before declaring this case solved. We also urge the government to provide proper assurance to the Asian community that this type of violence is not tolerated now and will never be tolerated in the future.

– Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce of Gainesville Georgia (www.tccgg.org)
– Global Federation of Chinese Business Women of Atlanta (www.gfcbwatlanta.org)
– The Chinese-American Academic and Professional Association in Southeastern United States (www.capasus.org)
– Monte Jade Science & Technology Association of Southeastern Region (www.montejadese.org)
– OCA-Georgia – Asian Pacific American Advocates Georgia (www.facebook.com/OCAGEORGIA1983)

3/13 Webinar Series #2 – Engaging Topic and Discussions!

Types of Criminal Activities during the Covid-19 Pandemic
新冠疫情下的網路犯罪型態

March 13 (Saturday) at 10:00 AM  by Dr. Edward Huang 黃建中教授, George Mason University

Dr. Edward Huang’s research focuses on supply chain analysis, and he has participated in projects funded by NSF, AFOSR, IARPA, CICMHE, and POSTECH. Dr. Huang will focus on the operations of illicit actors in the cyberworld, in both the open web and dark web, and the supply chains and payment systems for online drug sales, counterfeit pharmaceuticals, and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). These illicit supply chains of vital medical products pose an unprecedented risk to public health (and security).
黃建中教授任教於George Mason 大學,並與不同美國聯邦組織如國家科學基金會、空軍科學研究室等機構合作從事各類數據分析的研究。黃教授將在這個專題座談中,運用數據分析指出新冠疫情中假藥、劣質醫療產品與疫苗等如何充斥線上銷售市場,並危及公衛安全。

 

科技部公告修正「外國特定專業人才具有科技領域特殊專長」

為爭取國際科技人才,科技部修正「外國特定專業人才具有科技領域特殊專長」規定,新增具海外新創成功上市經驗、購併經驗與投資海外新創有實績3條件,同時草案鬆綁部分資格的準備文件,例如由「博士學位證書」鬆綁為「國內外學歷證書」即可,業於2020年底正式生效。藉由台灣防疫得宜,借重國際創業大師所具備的專業、人脈甚至資金等資源,補足台灣新創以前比較欠缺的國際鏈結經驗,幫助台灣團隊開拓國際市場、對接更大規模的海外創投,爭取全世界商機。 

修正重點如次:

1. 海外新創公司成功上市經驗的高階主管或研發團隊核心技術人員。在國外證券交易所成功上市,需檢附公司上市的相關新聞或佐證文件。 

2. 具海外新創公司成功被其他上市公司購併經驗的高階主管或研發團隊核心技術人員。申請者需檢附公司被其他公司購併交易金額達500萬美元以上的相關新聞或佐證文件。

3. 具投資海外新創或科技部相關計畫的新創有實績的創投公司或基金的高階主管。相關文件包含,投資國外新創或事業達500萬美元以上的創投公司或基金高階主管或投資科技部相關計畫的新創達100萬美元的創投公司或基金的高階主管,兩者可擇一附上。

規定及表格詳附件

公告附件_英文版

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外國特定專業人才具有『科技領域』特殊專長」之資格條件及應備文件(檢核表)-英文版

外國特定專業人才具有『科技領域』特殊專長」之資格條件及應備文件(檢核表)-中文版

Welcome to 2021! 新年度,新展望

親愛的美東南區學人協會的大家庭,

2020,是個磨練我們所有人意志與能力的一年,大家都辛苦了。但疫苗既出,曙光在望。2021,則是證明我們的毅力與努力成果的一年, 我們期待盡快回復正常生活,走到戶外,彼此握手擁抱,一同體驗協會大家庭的溫暖,積極展開新計畫、新生活。

我在美東南區中華學人協會的會長任期於2021年1月1日開始,預計為大家服務到2022年的暑期年會為止。首先,我要特別感謝朱子宇會長。您作為學人協會過去這一年的領頭羊,大家都非常感謝您的投入。面對過去一年一系列的劇變,朱會長一肩擔下許多的壓力,而十月底的線上座談更是成功,邀請了在資訊科技領域的三位頂尖學者—張繼昆教授、蔡宜長教授,以及黃金澤教授—為協會、也為整個僑界探討資訊科技的演進。這次活動是對外開放的,也有華府僑界人士參加。朱會長在變局中化危機為轉機,為協會開啟了一個新頁。

美東南區學人協會自1977年1月25日成立至今,將近44年。是歷任會長與幹部的心血投注,讓學人協會與許多青年學人在美東南區紮根茁壯;期間台灣歷經種種風雨,學人協會也積極協助政府,加深美台友誼與合作。在2021-2022年,我將儘力延續這些成果。

為了協會所有成員的健康考量,2020年9月的幹部會議決議,2021年8月將不舉辦面對面的年會,但仍按原計畫在2022年舉辦年會。在2021年,我計畫舉辦一些線上演講與活動,加強協會會員的聯繫,並透過與不同社團合作,對更多公眾開放,以服務廣大僑界與青年學人,深入本土社區活動。目前已經初步計畫幾個線上演講與活動,還有一些正在討論中,也將與亞城其他社團、經文處、科技組、僑教中心等合作推動更多的線上活動。疫情結束後,我們也將辦理戶外活動,以更積極認識美東南地區的不同社會面向。稍後我會向協會全體做進一步的細節報告。希望大家多多支持學人協會,更請大家不吝向我、副會長陳美蘭Anna Chen、秘書魏鳳珠Alice Stanley,以及其他幹部提出建議。

讓我們延續所有前任會長的努力成果,一起邁向美好的明天。敬祝大家與朱子宇會長在未來的一年平安健康、喜樂圓滿、事業有成。

Catherine Chang 張嘉蘭

2021 美東南區學人協會會長