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11/15/2005
The DJ on the radio just called Nirvana Pearl Jam…all together now- AI YAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Listening to the genius work that Yoko Kanno did for the anime Cowboy Bebop and wondering the following: where have all the good anime gone? (not including of course Miyazaki- whose output and quality still surprises me…just watch Howl’s Moving Castle…) But no new anime have really caught my attention or interest…even the new Gundam (I tried watching it but the insipid animation just disgusted me…). Part of it of course, is that anime has priced itself away from me…too expensive for most of them- I really wanted to watch the rest of NOIR but couldn’t afford it…also wouldn’t mind trying Samurai 7, Samurai Champloo, Burst Angel, Mezzo and finishing FLCL…sigh…I do take donations you know…also now that I think of it- there are new anime that I’d like to watch- but the American Market is oversaturated…time to slow down dudes…
There’s Star Wars Transformers: I say this goes too far but the Darth Vader/Tie Fighter Transformer looks really kick ass! If only it was die cast…check them out at http://www.starwars.com/collecting/news/hasbro/news20051107.html
PS: They’re re-releasing the Sandman Books as Absolute editions…kinda like Criterion Special Edition DVDs…they’ll probably be $75 a piece…ai yah…remember what I said about donations?
UCLA has a bad ass Asian movie screening- Dude, go if you can, they even have a new print of Once Upon A Time In China! www.cinema.ucla.edu.
Check out the following from Kung Fu Cinema: Tony Ching Siu-tung, action director of House of Flying Daggers, has been busy cooking up his expert wirework action for a couple of international productions, including the latest video game-to-movie adaptation from modern movie shlockmeister Uwe Boll and the sequel to the Bollywood equivalent of E.T.
Ching’s working on the Dungeon Siege movie which I had no interest in seeing…until I heard Ching was involved…but dude, how funny is it that there is a Bollywood version of ET?
PS: Kudos to Louie on his new job part-time as a HSI Assistant Archivist for the Urban Archives Center.
Redirected from Angry Asian Man:
Chinese American veterans' service often gets overlooked
By MIKE BARBERSEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
The air raid siren sounded as 26-year-old Arthur Chin lay helpless in a full-body cast, trapped in China by severe burns suffered when he was shot down by a Japanese plane.
It was late 1939. Japan and China were at war. Servants were rushing Chin's wife, Eva, and the couple's two children to the safety of the cellar. Eva, however, refused to leave her husband's side.
Then it was over. With the smell of cordite, dust and smoke still in the air, servants and children made their way upstairs. Eva lay across Arthur, limp. A small piece of shrapnel had pierced her body, killing her.
"She gave her life for him," Susie Ennis, 59, Arthur Chin's daughter by a second wife, says from her home in California. "Each of us girls in the family, our middle name is Eva."
The tale of love and war that Arthur Chin lived illuminates the often-overlooked contributions of Chinese American veterans. Chin was the first American "ace" fighter pilot, but it took 50 years for that recognition.
In Seattle, 14 Chinese American veterans came home from World War II and founded the American Legion's Cathay Post 186 in Chinatown. Sixty years later, they are still some who keep their sacrifices alive.
Korean War veteran Dick Kay, 76, feels the touch of war each time he walks by Chinatown's Hing Hay Park. His brother's name, Lawrence Lew Kay, is among 10 carved on a granite block of Chinese American servicemen who never returned from World War II.
"I was 11 when my parents were notified that he went down with a troop ship in the Mediterranean Sea."
Like veterans organizations nationwide, Post 186's membership has fallen despite its long record of community service, educational scholarships and contributions. Prominent Seattleites such as the late Wing Luke, the first Chinese American city councilman, and Ark Chin, a University of Washington regent, came from its ranks.
Today, Post 186, which never owned a building and meets at Marpac construction company, numbers 130 members from all backgrounds.
"We need younger members to join, but they're not," laments Bill Chin, 80, who grew up in Chinatown and served with the 13th Armored Division in Europe during World War II.
Bill Chin, Kay and Bill Sing, 85, an aerial gunnery instructor in the Army Air Corps during World War II, joined Jimmy Chinn, 76, an Air Force veteran of Korea and Vietnam, at Hing Hay Park on Thursday to share their experiences.
Chinese Americans numbered nearly 13,500 in the armed forces in World War II.
Chinese Americans fought and died even as the Chinese Exclusion Act remained in effect, severely limiting job opportunities while encouraging ugly stereotypes.
Congress repealed the act in 1943, 61 years after it was enacted as a temporary measure to limit Chinese immigration but which was made permanent in 1902, making Chinese immigration illegal.
Chinese American veterans like those from Seattle laid the foundation for that repeal.
"The way to overcome is not by whining but by working harder and gaining a little respect, and demonstrating by example," says Sing. The group admired Arthur Chin, whose father was Cantonese and mother Peruvian, and how he and 13 young Chinese Americans went to fight Japan nearly a decade before the United States entered the war.
Concerned about Japanese aggression against China, Chin and the others took flying lessons in Portland, and in 1932, when Chin was 19, signed up for the Cantonese Provincial Air Force. Among their numbers were the late John Wong and Clifford Louie Yim-Qun, both of Seattle.
Though outnumbered and outclassed in their comparatively primitive biplanes, Chin recorded nine victories over Japanese pilots, becoming an "ace" for having at least five victories.
Chin was awaiting evacuation to the United States when his first wife was killed. He returned to China after the United States entered the war and flew supplies over the dangerous Himalayan "Hump." He retired to a quiet life as a postal worker in Beaverton, Ore., and married two more times.
A half-century after the war ended, the U.S. government recognized Chin as an American veteran by awarding him the Distinguished Flying Cross. Chin died in September 1997 and his ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean.
RELATED LINKS
To learn more about Arthur Chin, see www.airpowermuseum.org/exhibits/acahof/assets/pdf/1997/chin.pdf and surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/china_chin.htm
The DJ on the radio just called Nirvana Pearl Jam…all together now- AI YAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Listening to the genius work that Yoko Kanno did for the anime Cowboy Bebop and wondering the following: where have all the good anime gone? (not including of course Miyazaki- whose output and quality still surprises me…just watch Howl’s Moving Castle…) But no new anime have really caught my attention or interest…even the new Gundam (I tried watching it but the insipid animation just disgusted me…). Part of it of course, is that anime has priced itself away from me…too expensive for most of them- I really wanted to watch the rest of NOIR but couldn’t afford it…also wouldn’t mind trying Samurai 7, Samurai Champloo, Burst Angel, Mezzo and finishing FLCL…sigh…I do take donations you know…also now that I think of it- there are new anime that I’d like to watch- but the American Market is oversaturated…time to slow down dudes…
There’s Star Wars Transformers: I say this goes too far but the Darth Vader/Tie Fighter Transformer looks really kick ass! If only it was die cast…check them out at http://www.starwars.com/collecting/news/hasbro/news20051107.html
PS: They’re re-releasing the Sandman Books as Absolute editions…kinda like Criterion Special Edition DVDs…they’ll probably be $75 a piece…ai yah…remember what I said about donations?
UCLA has a bad ass Asian movie screening- Dude, go if you can, they even have a new print of Once Upon A Time In China! www.cinema.ucla.edu.
Check out the following from Kung Fu Cinema: Tony Ching Siu-tung, action director of House of Flying Daggers, has been busy cooking up his expert wirework action for a couple of international productions, including the latest video game-to-movie adaptation from modern movie shlockmeister Uwe Boll and the sequel to the Bollywood equivalent of E.T.
Ching’s working on the Dungeon Siege movie which I had no interest in seeing…until I heard Ching was involved…but dude, how funny is it that there is a Bollywood version of ET?
PS: Kudos to Louie on his new job part-time as a HSI Assistant Archivist for the Urban Archives Center.
Redirected from Angry Asian Man:
Chinese American veterans' service often gets overlooked
By MIKE BARBERSEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
The air raid siren sounded as 26-year-old Arthur Chin lay helpless in a full-body cast, trapped in China by severe burns suffered when he was shot down by a Japanese plane.
It was late 1939. Japan and China were at war. Servants were rushing Chin's wife, Eva, and the couple's two children to the safety of the cellar. Eva, however, refused to leave her husband's side.
Then it was over. With the smell of cordite, dust and smoke still in the air, servants and children made their way upstairs. Eva lay across Arthur, limp. A small piece of shrapnel had pierced her body, killing her.
"She gave her life for him," Susie Ennis, 59, Arthur Chin's daughter by a second wife, says from her home in California. "Each of us girls in the family, our middle name is Eva."
The tale of love and war that Arthur Chin lived illuminates the often-overlooked contributions of Chinese American veterans. Chin was the first American "ace" fighter pilot, but it took 50 years for that recognition.
In Seattle, 14 Chinese American veterans came home from World War II and founded the American Legion's Cathay Post 186 in Chinatown. Sixty years later, they are still some who keep their sacrifices alive.
Korean War veteran Dick Kay, 76, feels the touch of war each time he walks by Chinatown's Hing Hay Park. His brother's name, Lawrence Lew Kay, is among 10 carved on a granite block of Chinese American servicemen who never returned from World War II.
"I was 11 when my parents were notified that he went down with a troop ship in the Mediterranean Sea."
Like veterans organizations nationwide, Post 186's membership has fallen despite its long record of community service, educational scholarships and contributions. Prominent Seattleites such as the late Wing Luke, the first Chinese American city councilman, and Ark Chin, a University of Washington regent, came from its ranks.
Today, Post 186, which never owned a building and meets at Marpac construction company, numbers 130 members from all backgrounds.
"We need younger members to join, but they're not," laments Bill Chin, 80, who grew up in Chinatown and served with the 13th Armored Division in Europe during World War II.
Bill Chin, Kay and Bill Sing, 85, an aerial gunnery instructor in the Army Air Corps during World War II, joined Jimmy Chinn, 76, an Air Force veteran of Korea and Vietnam, at Hing Hay Park on Thursday to share their experiences.
Chinese Americans numbered nearly 13,500 in the armed forces in World War II.
Chinese Americans fought and died even as the Chinese Exclusion Act remained in effect, severely limiting job opportunities while encouraging ugly stereotypes.
Congress repealed the act in 1943, 61 years after it was enacted as a temporary measure to limit Chinese immigration but which was made permanent in 1902, making Chinese immigration illegal.
Chinese American veterans like those from Seattle laid the foundation for that repeal.
"The way to overcome is not by whining but by working harder and gaining a little respect, and demonstrating by example," says Sing. The group admired Arthur Chin, whose father was Cantonese and mother Peruvian, and how he and 13 young Chinese Americans went to fight Japan nearly a decade before the United States entered the war.
Concerned about Japanese aggression against China, Chin and the others took flying lessons in Portland, and in 1932, when Chin was 19, signed up for the Cantonese Provincial Air Force. Among their numbers were the late John Wong and Clifford Louie Yim-Qun, both of Seattle.
Though outnumbered and outclassed in their comparatively primitive biplanes, Chin recorded nine victories over Japanese pilots, becoming an "ace" for having at least five victories.
Chin was awaiting evacuation to the United States when his first wife was killed. He returned to China after the United States entered the war and flew supplies over the dangerous Himalayan "Hump." He retired to a quiet life as a postal worker in Beaverton, Ore., and married two more times.
A half-century after the war ended, the U.S. government recognized Chin as an American veteran by awarding him the Distinguished Flying Cross. Chin died in September 1997 and his ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean.
RELATED LINKS
To learn more about Arthur Chin, see www.airpowermuseum.org/exhibits/acahof/assets/pdf/1997/chin.pdf and surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/china_chin.htm
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