CHSA is located in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Chinatown. It includes a museum and learning center with exhibits and space for book launchings and other activities.

To build the event, 2,000 color postcards with the cover photo of the book are being mailed and distributed. Leaflets promoting the meeting have been issued in English, Spanish, and Chinese.

In the book, the three Chinese-Cuban generals—Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui, and Moíses Sío Wong—talk about the historic place of Chinese immigration in Cuba, their own participation in the clandestine struggle and 1956-58 revolutionary war that brought down a U.S.-backed dictatorship and opened a door to the socialist revolution in the Americas, as well as more than 50 years of revolutionary action and internationalism, from Cuba to Angola, Nicaragua, and Venezuela today.

The panel of speakers includes: L. Ling-chi Wang, professor emeritus at University of California, Berkeley, who organized a conference at the University of Havana in 1999 on the Chinese diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean, and one at Berkeley in 1998 on U.S.-Cuba relations; Felicia Lowe, a filmmaker who plans to show movie clips from her travels to Cuba related to the history of Chinese immigration there; Steve Wake of Tsukimi Kai, a Japanese-American organization; and Mary-Alice Waters, president of Pathfinder Press and editor of the book. Waters was among those who conducted the interviews with the Chinese-Cuban generals that resulted in Our History Is Still Being Written.

The event begins at 3:00 p.m. It will take place at CHSA’s offices at 965 Clay Street. (See also ad below.)

Those attending can come early to see the museum. A special exhibit is currently on display there. Called, “Earthquake: The Chinatown Story,” it documents the experiences of the Chinese community here during the devastating 1906 quake. The museum’s permanent collection features a history of Chinese-Americans from the 1800s on.
 
 
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