Alice Fong Yu (2 March 1905 - 19 December 2000) was the first Chinese American public school teacher in California, founder of the Square and Circle Club, and a prominent leader in the San Francisco Chinatown community.
Chih Ree Sun (May 6, 1923 – January 5, 2007) was a Chinese American physicist most noted with breaking new ground in modern physics as a professor at the State University of New York in Albany, he danced his way through life and spent time writing Chinese poetry after he retired.
The school is particularly notable for its high concentration of Chinese American and Indian American students, the highest percentage of a student body found in the Houston area.
Craig Beardsley was born in New York City, New York in 1960, the son of an American father, Russell Beardsley, and a Chinese American immigrant mother, Jeanne Loh.
Frederic Chiu (born 20 October 1964) is a Chinese American classical concert pianist.
Lee Tung Foo (also known as Frank Lee) was a Chinese American Vaudeville performer born in California who performed in English, German, and Latin.
Robert Isaac Lee (August 16, 1956 – October 20, 2004) was a Chinese American film and television actor.
Spencer Chan (March 28, 1892 – January 9, 1988) was a Chinese American film, television, and stage actor.
A promotional track, Chinatown featuring fellow Chinese American rapper L.S. was thought to be the first single.
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When a Silicon Valley Chinese American executive goes back to his homeland of China for the first time in 30 years, he and his family encounter many culture clashes between the lives that they lead in the United States and the lives of their relatives in China.
Raymond Ding, a middle-aged Chinese American college professor, and Aurora Crane, his younger Hapa (half-Asian) girlfriend, have just split, but continue to drift in and out of each other's lives.
As of 2002 Ethnic Chinese and Chinese American people are second largest Asian-origin ethnic group in the Wayne-Macomb-Oakland tri-county area.
As of 2002 Ethnic Chinese and Chinese American people are second largest Asian-origin ethnic group in the Wayne-Macomb-Oakland tri-county area in Metro Detroit.
He was consequently re-elected in 1996 and 2000, appealing mostly to Chinese American, Filipino American and Japanese American communities.
Kam Tong (December 18, 1906 – November 8, 1969) was a Chinese American actor best known for his role as Hey Boy on the television series Have Gun – Will Travel and as Dr. Li in the film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song.
More recently, in 2003, Chinese-American Federal Bureau of Investigation source and Republican Party fundraiser Katrina Leung was arrested and accused of being a double agent for both the FBI and the Chinese government, although she was acquitted of charges of copying classified information, and convicted only of tax charges and of lying to the FBI.
It mainly attracts Chinese American and Vietnamese American Buddhists, including many who are students at the University of California, Irvine.
Sherman Hsiu-huang Wu (1937 – May 11, 2010) was an American social activist and a former professor, whose experiences at Northwestern University brought the issue of discrimination against Asian Americans to the fore.
The Hundred Secret Senses is a 1995 novel by Amy Tan, focusing on the relationship between Chinese-born Kwan and her younger, Chinese American sister Olivia, who serves as the book's primary narrator.
Hong Kong film director Wong Kar-wai was the head of jury at this year's film festival along with other jury members such as Chinese-American actress Joan Chen, legendary Danish director Bille August and Israeli stage actress Gila Almagor.
Directed by Carly Lyn, the film stars Cindy Chiu as a Chinese-American woman in the Old West who finds the wreckage of a mysterious aircraft in the California desert.
Charlie Chan in Reno is a 1939 American film directed by Norman Foster, starring Sidney Toler as the fictional Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan, based on an original story, "Death Makes a Decree," by Philip Wylie.
Chinn Ho (1904–1987), Chinese American entrepreneur in Hawaii
Min Chueh Chang (1908 – 1991), Chinese American reproductive biologist
It was created by the Chinese-American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee and Chinese physics community as an alternative graduate school admission procedure.
He is of mixed Asian American heritage (Chinese American/Japanese American).
David T. Wong (born 1936), Chinese-American scientist whose work contributed to the invention of Fluoxetine (Prozac)
Paget left the entertainment industry in 1964 after marrying Louis C. Kung, a Chinese-American oil industry executive and nephew of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek.
Ping Fu (born 1958), Chinese-American computer scientist and businesswoman
In speaking of Lee and the handful of other Chinese American women pilots of that time, author Judy Yung has written “Although few in number, these first Chinese American aviators, in their attempt to participate in a daring sport, broke the stereotype of the passive Chinese women and demonstrated the ability of Chinese American women to compete in a male dominated field.”
In the early 2000s the conceptual New York label Slow and Steady Wins the Race, founded by the Chinese-American designer Mary Ping, offered a range of consciously affordable bags deliberately based on It Bags by Balenciaga, Dior and Gucci, but made in inexpensive calico with metalwork from hardware stores mirroring the original bags' exclusive designer fittings.
The Chinese-American author Zhu Xiao Di wrote a book about Judge Dee called Tales of Judge Dee (2006), set when the Judge was the magistrate of Poo-yang (the same time period as The Chinese Bell Murders and several other novels).
Polly Bemis, born Lalu Nathoy, a Chinese American pioneer woman
Brandon Lee (1965 – 1993), Chinese name Li Guohao, Chinese-American actor, son of Bruce Lee
Ed Lu (born 1963), or Lu Jie, Chinese American physicist
Liang Chow (born 1968), or Qiao Liang, Chinese-American gymnast and coach
Raymond K. Wong (born 1966), Chinese-American writer, author of The Pacific Between
By 1988, Chen then convinced Taiwanese investors to construct a retail complex that was able to accommodate restaurants and stores and as well as a 36,000-square foot supermarket in Rowland Heights, a suburb that was located in the Eastern part of Rowland Heights, where the suburb was located east of the well-known Chinese American community of Monterey Park.
Sai Wing Mock (a/k/a Mock Duck) (1879 – 23 July 1941) was a Chinese-American criminal and leader of the Hip Sing Tong, which replaced the On Leong Tong as the dominant Chinese-American Tong in the Manhattan Chinatown in the early 1900s.
Su-Lin Young (1911–2008), Chinese American explorer of the Himalayas
Raymond K. Wong's rich Asian voice makes his story spring to life through the development of his vibrant characters, exotic settings, complex Chinese-American relationships, humor, and a superb plot of perceived betrayal.
Thomas Oboe Lee (born September 5, 1945 Beijing, China) is a Chinese American composer.
Ties that Bind, Ties that Break is a historical novel written by Chinese-American author Lensey Namioka and published in 1999.
He is also the grandfather of the American actress, Lauren Tom, a third-generation Chinese American.
Chou Wen-chung (born 1923), or Zhou Wenzhong, Chinese American composer of contemporary classical music