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23 March 2011
Abigroup is one of Australia's leading and most diverse national contractors and over the years there has been a set of core drivers carrying Abigroup forward. Managing Director David Jurd shares with us what he views as the foundations of the company's success.
"What hasn't changed over the years is Abigroup's hands-on approach to contracting," said Managing Director David Jurd from the company's new headquarters in Chatswood, on Sydney's North Shore.
"From the early days Abigroup has owned, operated and maintained its own fleet of construction plant and this has really defined the Abigroup difference. We employ our own blue collar workforce and when faced with a challenge, our project teams embrace the opportunity to develop innovative solutions - a recognised characteristic of Abigroup and a source of pride for our workforce. We adopt a first principles approach to building and engineering construction."
This model has driven the company's move into increasingly diverse services and operations.
"While building the Albury Wodonga Hume Freeway, it became clear that the risks – in terms of cost, availability, safety and quality – of buying and transporting concrete bridge beams from Melbourne were high and beyond our control," said David.
"So we built a pre-cast yard to manufacture our own beams and maintain control over quality and delivery. We've since established a permanent facility in northern NSW to supply not only our own projects, but those of external clients."
"Our clients' recognition of our ability to get in and get the job done in this way has also supported our move into diverse operational areas. After delivering projects in a range of areas, we decided to form specialised teams dedicated to specific areas and in 2006 established Abigroup Telco & Energy, in 2007 we established Abigroup Mining Services, Abigroup Water in 2008 and just this year Abigroup Rail became our most recent specialist national business."
The strategy has proven successful, with the company now boasting an order book approaching $5 billion – its largest ever. The challenge now is to continue this successful growth.
"We are always looking forward and never take success for granted," said David. "In 2009 we developed our sustainability strategy, which identifies key areas for us to focus on in order to remain a profitable and sustainable business well into the future.
"One of the main priorities for us is people and this has seen new programs introduced including our behavioural safety program, graduate development and indigenous schemes and the establishment of women@abigroup – a forum that focuses on increasing the diversity, and therefore strength, of our workforce."
Project highlights of 2010 for Abigroup included the early completion of the second Gateway Bridge as part of the $2.12 billion Gateway Upgrade Project in Brisbane; being named Managing Contractor for the $1.2 billion Queensland Children's Hospital; commencing work on the $759 million Peninsula Link project in Victoria and securing the Hunter Expressway – Kurri Kurri to Branxton.
Abigroup enters 2011 with a record order book in excess of $5 billion, a workforce of over 3500 and a raft of work in specialised areas including rail and energy.
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Dawn Ades, Professor Emeritus, History & Theory of Art, University of Essex
Wendy Baron, Art Historian and Former Director, Government Art Collection
Kathy Battista, Program Director, Contemporary Art, Sotheby's Institute, New York
Alan Bowness, art critic, academic and former Director of Tate
Christopher Breward, Principal of Edinburgh College of Art & Vice Principal
Creative Industries and Performing Arts, University of Edinburgh
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Nigel Carrington, Rector, University of the Arts London
Peter Cherry, Lecturer & Head of Art History Department, Trinity College Dublin
T J Clark, Art historian
David Cottingdon, Professor of Modern Art History, Kingston University
Ilia Doronchenkov, Chair and Professor, History of Art Department, European
University at St. Petersburg
Tamar Garb, Professor of History of Art, University College London
Cesar Guillen Nunez, Research Fellow and Art Historian, Macau Ricci Institute
Jos Hackforth-Jones, Director, Sotheby's Institute of Art, London
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Charles Hope, Art Historian and Former Director, Warburg Institute
Deborah Howard, Professor of Art History, Unviersity of Cambridge
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Neil Jackson, Professor of Architecture, University of Liverpool
Wu Jinding, Pre-eminent Chinese archaeologist (deceased)
Mark Jones, Master of St Cross College, Oxford
Holger Klein, Department Chair and Professor of Art History, Columbia University
Edward Lilley, Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol
Marco Livingstone, Art Historian and Curator
Lydia Matthews, Dean of Academic Programs, The New School of Design
Rupert Morrall, Chair of Academic Programmes & Professor, Bard Graduate
John Osborne, Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Carleton University
Catherine Petitgas, Art Historian, lecturer and translator
Joachim Pissarro, Professor of Art History & Director of Galleries, Hunter College
Griselda Pollock, Art historian
Liz Prettejohn, Head of Department & Professor of History of Art, University of York
Irit Rogoff, Professor of Visual Cultures, Goldsmith's College, University of London
Mary Rozell, Director, Art Business Programme, Sotheby's Institute, New York
Patricia Rubin, Director, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Magda Salvesen, Adjunct Professor, New York University, and Curator of the Jon
Schueler Estate
David Solkin, Dean and Deputy Director, Courtauld Institute of Art
Mary Anne Stevens, Art History and Curator
Ann Sutherland Harris, Professor of History of Art, University of Pittsburgh
Adriana Turpin, Academic Director, Institut d'etudes superieurese des arts
Alister Warman, Principal, Byam Shaw School of Art
Jonathan Woodham, Director of the Centre for Research & Development (Faculty of
Arts), University of Bristol
Joyce Zemans, Co-Chair, Visual Arts Department, York University, Toronto
Arts organisation directors
Noah Charney, Founding Director, Association for Research into Crimes against Art
Andrew Derrick, Director, The Architectural History Practice
Stephanie Dieckvoss, Director, Art14
Caroline Douglas, Director, Contemporary Art Society
Heather Ewing, Executive Director, Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA), New York
Katya Garcia-Anton, Director, Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Jonathan Foyle, CEO, World Monuments Fund Britain
RoseLee Goldberg, Art historian and founder of Performa
Noah Horowitz, Managing Director, The Armory Show
Shauna Isaac, Director, Trace Looted Art
Belinda Kidd, Chief Executive, Bath Festivals
Ezra Konvitz, Founder, ArtStack
Claire Marmion, Director, AIG Art Collection Management
Chris Pensa, Founder, Love Art London
Stacy Tenenbaum Stark, Executive Director, Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Ruth Ur, Director of Partnerships Europe, British Council
Auction house professionals
Richard Aronowitz-Mercer, Head of Restitution, Sotheby's London
Denise Bethel, Senior Vice President & Director of Photography, Sotheby's New York
Oliver Barker, Senior Director, Contemporary Art, Sotheby's London
Laura Doyle, Doyle New York, Auctioneers and Appraisers
Diana Herzog, President, RM Smythe
Alexander Kader, Director and Head of European Sculpture, Sotheby's London
Claire McKeon, Vice-President for British, Irish and Sporting Art, Christie's
Claude Piening, Senior Director, 19th rCentury European Paintings, Sotheby's London
Christina Prescott-Walker, Senior Vice-President and Department Director, Chinese
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Simon Shaw, SVP and Head of Impressionist and Modern Art, Sotheby's New York
David Silcox, President, Sotheby's Canada
Jonathan Stone, Chairman, Christie's Asia
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Aleksandra Todorovic, Director, Head of Research, Impressionist and Modern Art, Sotheby's
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Calum Sutton, Director, Calum Sutton PR
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Aviva Burnstock, Head of Conservation and Technology, The Courtauld
Steven Gayler, Conservator, Modern Art Conservation
Lynne Harrison, Senior Conservator, The British Museum
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Thomas Learner, Head of Contemporary Art Research, Getty Conservation Institute
Sally Lescher, Director, Conservation Management Ltd
Alison Lister, Director and Principal Conservator, Textile Conservation Ltd
Ian McClure, Chief Conservator, Yale University Art Gallery
Ann-Marie Miller, Book Conservator, The British Library
Michael Alan Miller, Paintings Conservator, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lesley Stevenson, Senior Paintings Conservator, National Galleries of Scotland
Paul Schwartzbaum, Senior Conservator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
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Joyce Townsend, Senior Conservation Scientist, Tate
Rachel Turnbull, Senior Collections Conservator, English Heritage
Entertainment and music industry
Simon Banner, Hollywood Film Producer
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Atticus Ross, Musician, 2010 Academy Award for Original Soundtrack, The Social Network
Gallery, museum and heritage directors and senior curators
Graham Beal, Director, Detroit Institute of Arts
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Jenny Harper, Director, Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand
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Timothy Knox, Director, The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
Janet Landay, Executive Director, Association of American Museum Directors
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Christopher Monkhouse, Eloise W. Martin Curator & Chairman, Art Institute of Chicago
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Bera Nordal, Museum Director, The Nordic Watercolour Museum
Karsten Ohrt, Chairman, New Carlsberg Foundation; Chairman, New Carleberg
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William Rudolph, Chief Curator & Curator of American Art, San Antonio Museum of Art
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Matthew Teitelbaum, Director, Art Gallery of Ontario
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Simon Thurley, CEO, English Heritage
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Our web site provides specific content relevant to our cooperative's members and those interested in our mission. We do so within a context of general information about the cultivation and health benefits of North American Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis). Our cooperative is in process of formation at this time with a steering committee made up of growers participating in the growth and development of elderberry cultivation and sale of elderberry products in the upper Midwest.
MEC has just recently begun to solicit members due to the completion of a positive Feasibility Study. Work on a formal business plan has begun with the help of an additional Value Added Grant from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. This business plan will guide us in forming our initial cooperative membership-management structure as well as our initial elder berry and flower commercial operations.
On September 11, 2012, the Minnesota Secretary of State has issued a Certificate of Organization to Minnesota Elderberry Cooperative under Chapter 308B. MEC anticipates the establishment of two classes of members: growers and investors. With the advisement of the steering committee, MEC directors actively seek grants independently and in association with Coop Development Services in order to explore the most feasible cooperative structure and shared production and/or commercial activities to the benefit of our growers, our potential commercial partners and the general public.
We also actively work to facilitate scientific research by Midwest universities and institutes on North American elderberry cultivation, processing and neutraceutical potential. We recognize the University of Missouri's early leadership and hope to see the expansion on their research by other universities on elderberry, especially on our native varieties of Sambucus canadensis.
MEC in one of several informally networked grower and product production organizations working jointly toward an eventual co-op of elderberry cooperatives. We expect to share our progress with those adhering to similar goals and principles in other states. Currently, we regularly interact with River Hills Elderberry Producers (River Hills Harvest brand) active in Missouri and the Midwest.
The successful development of networked elderberry gorwer cooperatives will likely include the production and marketing of quality, certified organic ingredient elderberry products such as juice, flowers and frozen berries in various raw material and retail products. ideally, retail outlets will establish relationships with local elderberry farmers who will become the local faces of MEC (and perhaps RHH) to each store's customers. Individual grower specialty product development is encouraged.
Christopher J. Patton of Natural Kick Farms is a Founding Director and the current Chairman of MEC's Board. As Natural Kick Farms, he grows elderberry in partnership with Paul Otten at Natura Farms in MN. Separately, Patton markets River Hills Harvest (RHH) brand premium pure elderberry juice products throughout the USA as River Hills Harvest Marketers, LLC and serves as this site's webmaster.
North American Sambucus canadensis
The stunning, aromatic flower clusters and mildly sweet fruit of elderberry have been treasured for thousands of years. The dark purple berries have more vitamin C than oranges, and they are a great source of antioxidants like flavonoids — mainly anthocyanins, as well as quercetin, which functions as a cellular level anti-inflammatory.
More nutrient dense than most other berries, elderberry juice and extracts have been used to treat the common cold, flu, diabetes and even some forms of cancer. Compare some of the US Department of Agriculture's data displayed in the table below right.
Until recently, about 90% of all elderberry ingredients were imported. European elderberry juice comes from that continent's native species, Sambucus nigra, and is almost always concentrated. In the process of removing the water, the juice loses much of its desired properties. Also, imported elderberry juice products are usually pasteurized or contain added potassium sorbate as a preservative.
These facts, among others, have encouraged the North American cultivation of various regional varieties in order to provide more nutrients at lower cost. Commercial elderberry cultivation is becoming a vital part of sustainable agriculture in North America, and the number of acres dedicated to elderberry cultivation is growing.
A growing number of North American food processors use Sambucus canadensis berries, primarily sourced from the Midwest. For example, River Hills Harvest elderberry juice products do not concentrate or dilute their juice with water. River Hills Harvest cool processes elderberry juice at 180°F, so the juice tastes better and retains more nutrient vitality. River Hills Harvest products are always sustainably grown and use fruit acid or Vitamin C as the only specifically added ingredient. Their products are sold through a growing network of local food cooperatives and grocery stores that focus on quality natural or organic, locally grown and processed foods and juices.
Wild elderberry plants are often found along roadsides, forest edges and abandoned fields. Elderberry leaves, branches, stems, roots and seeds contain glycosides giving them a bitter taste that discourages pests. The body metabolizes these parts of the plant converting them into toxic cyanides; therefore, our methods of harvest and processing are careful to remove everything but the berries.
Europeans make syrups and cordials from elderberry flowers as well as the berries. Some even coat stemless flower umbrels with batter and fry them served topped with cinnamon and powdered sugar as desert.


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Chinatown, Los Angeles
|Neighborhood of Los Angeles
Entrance to Los Angeles' Chinatown
Map of the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles, as delineated by the Los Angeles Times
|Coordinates: 34°03′46″N 118°14′16″W / 34.062888°N 118.23789°W
Chinatown in Los Angeles, California is known as a commercial center for Chinese and other Asian businesses in Central Los Angeles. The area includes restaurants, shops and art galleries but also has a residential neighborhood with a low-income, aging population of about 10,000 residents.
The original Chinatown developed in the late 19th century, but it was demolished to make room for Union Station, the city's major ground-transportation center.[1][2] A separate commercial center, known as "New Chinatown," opened for business in 1938.
There are two schools and a branch library in Chinatown, as well as a city and a state park and a medical center/hospital. Many motion pictures have been filmed in the area.
- 1 History
- 2 Geography
- 3 Adjacent neighborhoods
- 4 Demographics
- 5 Education
- 6 Businesses
- 7 Recreation and parks
- 8 Nomenclature
- 9 Events
- 10 Buildings and structures
- 11 Filming
- 12 Notable people
- 13 See also
- 14 References
- 15 Sources
- 16 External links
Old Chinatown[edit]
In the early 1860s, thousands of Chinese men, most of them originating from Guangdong province in southern China, were hired by Central Pacific Railroad Co. to work on the western portion of the first transcontinental railroad. Many of them settled in Los Angeles.[3]
In 1871, nineteen Chinese men and boys were killed by a mob of about five hundred white men in one of the most serious incidents of racial violence that has ever occurred in America's West. This incident became known as "Massacre of 1871".
The first Chinatown, centered on Alameda and Macy Streets, was established in 1880. Residents were evicted to make room for Union Station, causing the formation of the 'New Chinatown."[2][4]
Reaching its heyday from 1890 to 1910, Chinatown grew to approximately fifteen streets and alleys containing some two hundred buildings. It boasted a Chinese Opera theater, three temples, a newspaper and a telephone exchange. But laws prohibiting most Chinese from citizenship and property ownership, as well as legislation curtailing immigration, inhibited future growth.[5]
From the early 1910s Chinatown began to decline. Symptoms of a corrupt Los Angeles discolored the public's view of Chinatown; gambling houses, opium dens and a fierce tong warfare severely reduced business in the area. As tenants and lessees rather than outright owners, the residents of Old Chinatown were threatened with impending redevelopment, and as a result the owners neglected upkeep of their buildings.[2] Eventually, the entire area was sold and then resold, as entrepreneurs and developers fought the area. After thirty years of decay, a Supreme Court ruling approved condemnation of the area to allow for construction of a major rail terminal, Union Station.[2][6]
Seven years passed before an acceptable relocation proposal was put into place, situating a new Chinatown in its present location.[2] Old Chinatown was gradually demolished, leaving many businesses without a place to do business and forcing some to close. Nonetheless, a remnant of Old Chinatown persisted into the early 1950s, situated between Union Station and the Old Plaza. Several businesses and a Buddhist temple lined Ferguson Alley, a narrow one-block street running between the Plaza and Alameda.[7]:244
As late as 1951, structures remained on the east side of the Plaza, including the Lugo House, built in 1838 by the Lugos, a prominent Californio family. In later years it was used by St. Vincent's College, which became Loyola Marymount University. Later still, the Lugo House was rented to Chinese-American tenants who operated shops on the ground floor and a lodging house upstairs. Christine Sterling, who had worked tirelessly to bring about the conversion of Olvera alley into the Mexican-themed Olvera Street, was less enamored of the Chinese-American contributions to the city's history.[7]:242 She considered the remaining buildings of Old Chinatown to be an eyesore, and she wanted the Plaza to stand exclusively as a monument to the city's Mexican heritage. She therefore advocated the razing of all the remaining structures between the Plaza and Union Station.[7]:244
"The original Chinatown's only remaining edifice is the two-story Garnier Building, once a residence and meeting place for immigrant Chinese," according to Angels Walk – Union Station/El Pueblo/Little Tokyo/Civic Center guide book. The Chinese American Museum is now situated in Garnier Building.[2]
In the late 1950s the covenants on the use and ownership of property were removed, allowing Chinese Americans to live in other neighborhoods and gain access to new types of employment.[8]
New Chinatown[edit]
The area that today encompasses New Chinatown was at one time a part of Los Angeles' Little Italy. In the early 20th century, Italian immigrants settled in the area north of the Old Plaza. Many built businesses, including wineries (San Antonio Winery is the only one of these still in existence).[9]
In the 1930s, under the efforts of Chinese-American community leader Peter Soo Hoo Sr., the design and operational concepts for a New Chinatown evolved through a collective community process, resulting in a blend of Chinese and American architecture. The Los Angeles Chinatown saw major development, especially as a tourist attraction, throughout the 1930s, with the development of the "Central Plaza", a Hollywoodized version of Shanghai, containing names such as Bamboo Lane, Gin Ling Way and Chung King Road (named after the city of Chongqing in mainland China). Chinatown was designed by Hollywood film set designers, and a "Chinese" movie prop was subsequently donated by film director Cecil B. DeMille to give Chinatown an exotic atmosphere.[10]
The Hop Sing Tong Society is situated in Central Plaza, as are several other Chinatown lodges and guilds. Near Broadway, Central Plaza contains a statue honoring Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the Chinese revolutionary leader who is considered the "founder of modern China". It was erected in the 1960s by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association. A 7-foot tall Bruce Lee statue was unveiled at Central Plaza on June 15, 2013. It was made in Guangzhou, China.[11]
During the 1980s, many buildings were constructed for new shopping centers and mini-malls, especially along Broadway. Metro Plaza Hotel was opened in the southwest corner of Chinatown in the early 1990s. A large Chinese gateway is found at the intersection of Broadway and Cesar Chavez Avenue, funded by the local Teochew-speaking population.[12][13][citation needed]
New Chinatown is served by the Gold Line of the city's Metro Rail; parts of Old Chinatown were uncovered during excavation for another portion of the L.A. subway (the Red Line connection to Union Station). The Metro Rail station in Chinatown has been described as a spectacular pagoda-themed facility and as a cliché of neo-pagoda architecture by Christopher Hawthorne, the Los Angeles Times Architecture Critic.[14] [15]
In 1996, an Academy Award-winning (for the Killing Fields in 1985) Cambodian refugee, physician and actor, Haing S. Ngor, was killed in the Chinatown residential area in a bungled robbery attempt by members of an Asian gang. It had been speculated that he was assassinated for his activism against the Khmer Rouge government of Cambodia, but this idea was later proved unfounded.[16]
By 2000 many people had left the Chinatown for the City of Monterey Park, which has a Chinese community. In 2000 AsianWeek said that the Los Angeles Chinatown was "troubled."[17]
On June 28, 2008, a celebration of the 1938 founding of New Chinatown was held with the L.A. Chinatown 70th Anniversary Party.[18] "Though lacking the hustle and bustle of San Francisco's Chinatown, Los Angeles' version has charms of its own."[19]
Chinatown beyond the concentrated business center is flanked by the Elysian Park to the north, Lincoln Heights to the east, Downtown to the south and southwest and Echo Park to the west and northwest.[20][21]
Street and natural limits of the Chinatown neighborhood are: north, Beaudry Avenue, Stadium Way, North Broadway; east, the Los Angeles River; and southwest, Cesar Chavez Avenue.[22][23]
Adjacent neighborhoods[edit]
Relation of Chinatown to other places:[20][23][24]
|Echo Park
|Elysian Park, Dodger Stadium & Solano Canyon
|Cypress Park
|Echo Park
|Lincoln Heights
|Bunker Hill
|Olvera Street, Union Station & Little Tokyo
|East Los Angeles
According to the 2000 census, Chinatown was the Los Angeles neighborhood with the highest number of residents who were born outside the United States—72.4%. Koreatown and Westlake were next. In Chinatown, China (55.3%) and Mexico (12.4%) were the most common places of foreign birth.[25]
The 2000 U.S. census counted 9,610 residents in the 0.91-square-mile Chinatown neighborhood, excluding the population of the Los Angeles County Jail complex. That made an average of 10,568 people per square mile, which included the empty Cornfield area, and was about average for the city. The median age for residents was 37, considered old when compared to the rest of the city. The percentage of residents aged 65 and older was among the highest for Los Angeles County.[25]
Chinatown was said to be "moderately diverse" when compared to the city at large. The ethnic breakdown in 2000 was: Asian, 70.8%; Latino, 23.5%, whites, 2.5%; blacks, 1.8%, and others, 1.5%.[25]
The median household income in 2008 dollars was $22,754, considered low for Los Angeles. The percentage of households earning $20,000 or less (53.6%) was the third-largest in Los Angeles County, preceded by Downtown (57.4%) and University Park (56.6%). The average household size of 2.8 people was just about the city norm. Renters occupied 91% of the housing units, and home- or apartment owners the rest.[25][26]
The percentages of widowed people were among the county's highest. There were 220 families headed by single parents, or 9.6%, a low figure for Los Angeles.[25]
These were the ten neighborhoods in Los Angeles County with the largest percentage of Asian residents, according to the 2000 census:[27]
- Chinatown, 70.6%
- Monterey Park, 61.1%
- Cerritos, 58.3%
- Walnut, 56.2%
- Rowland Heights, 51.7%
- San Gabriel, 48.9%
- Rosemead, 48.6%
- Alhambra, 47.2%
- San Marino, 46.8%
- Arcadia, 45.4%
Just 8.3% of Chinatown residents aged 25 and older possessed a four-year degree in 2000, considered to be a low figure.[25]
There are three schools operating within Chinatown. They are:[28]
- Endeavor College Preparatory Charter School, middle, 126 Bloom Street
- Castelar Street Elementary School, LAUSD, 840 Yale Street
- Cathedral High School, Private Catholic Boy's School, just down the hill from Dodger Stadium, is located on the north side of Chinatown. The mission of Cathedral High School is to provide a human, religious, and academic education to young men, especially those from economically poor families. [6]
- Evans Community Adult School - largest stand-alone ESL adult school in the nation
Los Angeles Public Library operates the Chinatown Branch.
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There are numerous small, specialized grocery stores in Chinatown. The Chinese Vietnamese own many bazaars. The stores sell products such as soap, toys, clothes, music CDs at low prices. Several restaurants in Chinatown serve mainly Cantonese cuisine but there are also various Asian cuisine restaurants such as Teochew Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Thai, which reflects the diverse character of Chinatown. Few boba cafes have opened in Chinatown, but a large number are to be found in the Chinese enclaves in the San Gabriel Valley.
TS Emporium and Tin Bo are stores selling ginseng and herbs as well as other household merchandises are operated within the confinement of this particular Chinatown.
Dynasty Center, Saigon Plaza, and the Chinatown Phuoc Loc Tho Center feature many Vietnamese-style bazaars with people engaged in bargain shopping for items such as clothing, toys, Chinese-language CDs, pets, household items, funerary products, and so on. Its entrepreneurs are ethnic Chinese from Vietnam.
There are over 20 art galleries to see, mostly featuring non-Chinese modern art, with works from up and coming artists in all types of media. Popular galleries include Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Black Dragon Society, China Art Objects, and The Gallery at General Lee's. Spaces such as Telic Art Exchange, Betalevel and The Mountain Bar often have readings, performances and lectures.
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Chinatown offers the usual barbecue delicatessens - with glass displays of roast duck and suckling pig - and Cantonese seafood restaurants with dim sum. Owing to its large Vietnamese influence, there are many eateries in Chinatown offering Vietnamese pho noodle soup and submarine sandwiches called banh mi as well.
Plum Tree Inn is a restaurant serving Americanized Chinese cuisine. Similarly, Yang Chow Restaurant serves very Americanized Mandarin and Szechuan cuisine and is famous for its "slippery shrimp". Lucky Deli is among the more historic and popular Chinese food delicatessens, offering Chinese food at bargain prices.
Los Angeles Chinatown is home to the first restaurant of the venerable barbecue restaurant chain Sam Woo BBQ Restaurant, serving up Cantonese cuisine. Mein Nghia, a small local chain serving Teochew noodles which also operates in the new Chinatowns of San Gabriel Valley, started out in Chinatown as well. There are also a number of bakeries operating in Chinatown, such as Queen's Bakery and the much older Phoenix Bakery.
Some Chinatown restaurants that have attained good reviews include CBS Seafood Restaurant, Hop Woo Restaurant, Ocean Seafood Restaurant, and Empress Pavilion. CBS Seafood Restaurant and Empress Pavilion, two of the larger restaurants in Chinatown, are especially known for their dim sum. (Empress Pavilion closed in 2013 after some years of declining business, attributed in part to the disrepair of the surrounding shopping mall.[29]) Hop Woo, while touristy in atmosphere with Chinese lanterns and with waitresses dressed in cheongsam attire, offers both authentic and Americanized Chinese dishes. Ocean Seafood Restaurant has been Zagat Rated for six consecutive years, and it is widely known for its dim sum.[30]
Two of Chinatown's best-known restaurants do not serve Chinese food.[31]
- Phillipe's has been located on the corner of Alameda Street, at the edge of Chinatown, in the Historical District of Los Angeles since 1951,[32] and is known as one of the creators of the French Dip sandwich.[32]
- Little Joe's Italian American Restaurant, now demolished in January 2014, had long stood at the corner of Broadway and College Street. Little Joe's began in 1897 as the Italian-American Grocery Co. by Charley Viotto, an Italian immigrant.[33] When Italy sided against the U.S. in World War II the Italian-American Grocery Company became Little Joe's.[34] It was a popular place for the lunch crowd from the Civic Center and Dodger Stadium (including Tommy Lasorda).[35] The business passed down to the founder's great-grandson, who said it was the oldest family owned business in the city.[33] It closed in December 1998 due to the expense of retrofitting the building to meet earthquake standards.[33] The interior was left unchanged and it has been used as a filming location.[36] 15 Minutes, which starred Robert De Niro, was filmed there.
Recreation and parks[edit]
- Los Angeles State Historic Park, also known as the Cornfield,[37] consists of a long open space between Spring Street and the tracks of the Metro Gold Line.
- Alpine Recreation Center, at 817 Yale Street, has a combined and multipurpose room with a capacity of 250. Two indoor gymnasiums have capacities of 450 each. There are also basketball courts (lighted/indoor/outdoor), a children's play area and volleyball courts (lighted).[38]
The words Los Angeles Chinatown are written and pronounced as follows as (traditional Chinese: 洛杉磯唐人街; simplified Chinese: 洛杉矶唐人街; pinyin: Luòshānjī Tángrénjiē; Cantonese Yale: Loksāamgēi Tòhngyàhngāai) in Cantonese, (traditional Chinese: 洛杉磯中國城; simplified Chinese: 洛杉矶中国城; pinyin: Luòshānjī Zhōngguóchéng; Cantonese Yale: Loksāamgēi Jūnggwoksìhng) in Mandarin Chinese or officially known as (simplified Chinese: 洛杉矶华埠; traditional Chinese: 洛杉磯華埠; pinyin: Luòshānjī Huáfù; Cantonese Yale: Loksāamgēi Wàhfauh).
Events that have been held or are planned in Los Angeles's Chinatown include a Chinese New Year Parade,[39] a lantern festival at the Chinese American Museum,[40] a firecracker run and fun walk,[41] a mid-autumn Moon Festival and a Miss Los Angeles Chinatown Pageant.[42] A midnight firecracker display occurs every Chinese New Year's Eve at Thien Hau Temple and Xuan Wu San Buddhist Association.
Buildings and structures[edit]
- The French Hospital at 531 North College Street, now known as the Pacific Alliance Medical Center, is the oldest hospital in Los Angeles, founded in 1860 by French residents of Los Angeles. It features a statue of Joan of Arc on the lawn in front of the main building.[43][44][45]
- The Twin Towers Correctional Facility is a complex at 450 Bauchet Street. Operated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, it consists of two towers, a medical-services building and the Los Angeles County Medical Center Jail Ward. It is the world's "largest known jail facility."[46]
The conclusion of the film Chinatown was filmed on Spring Street.[47] The movie Rush Hour was filmed on location in Chinatown.[48] It is said that a stroll down Old Chinatown Plaza has many rewards, including recognizing many other locations that are used in filmmaking and television production.[49]
- Feature films
Notable people[edit]
- Cayetano Apablasa (1847–1889), 19th Century property owner[52]
- You Chung Hong (1898–1977), attorney, community leader[53]
- Bruce Lee (Chinese: 李小龍) (1940 – 1973), actor, whose statue is located at Central Plaza[11]
- Haing S. Ngor (Chinese: 吳漢) (1940–1996), actor[54][55]
- Lisa See, author[56]
- Otto G. Weyse (ca. 1858–1893), liquor and wine dealer, member of the Los Angeles Common Council[57][58]
See also[edit]
- List of Chinatowns
- History of the Chinese Americans in Los Angeles
- Chinese American Museum
- Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
- Southern California Chinatowns
- List of districts and neighborhoods in Los Angeles
- ^ Angels Walk–Union Station/El Pueblo/Little Tokyo/Center, published by Angels Walk LA, 2000
- ^ a b c d e f Chinatown Los Angeles California, Restaurants in Chinatown, Pictures of Chinatown
- ^ Chinese in America, Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
- ^ Watanabe, Teresa (August 3, 2008). 1 First lady puts Thai Town on the map. Los Angeles Times.
- ^ See, Lisa (2003). Angels Walk - Chinatown. Angels Walk LA.
- ^ Cheng, Suellen; Kwok, Munson (June 1988). The Golden Years of Los Angeles Chinatown: The Beginning. The Los Angeles Chinatown 50th Year Guidebook.
- ^ a b c William D. Estrada. The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred And Contested Space.. University of Texas Press, 2008. page 242.
- ^ Smith, Icy; Wang, Emily (2001). The lonely queue: the forgotten history of the courageous Chinese Americans in Los Angeles. East West Discovery Press. ISBN 978-0-9701654-1-1.
- ^ Italians in Los Angeles. pp. 7–8.
- ^ Tsui, Bonnie (2009). American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods. New York: Free Press. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-4165-5723-4.
- ^ a b Frank Shyong, (June 16, 2013) Bruce Lee statue unveiled in L.A.'s Chinatown, Los Angeles Times
- ^ Wallach, Ruth, Compiler and Photographer "Chinatown Gateway" Public Art in Los Angeles Accessed 30 April 2014
- ^ Wedlan, Candace A. (July 5, 2001) "Gate Takes Wing From a Dream" Los Angeles Times
- ^ Nelson, Laura J. (December 20, 2013) "Metro rail stations are being planned with design in mind" Los Angeles Times
- ^ Hawthorne, Christopher (December 31, 2013) "Review: Tentative signs of progress in Metro's transit network design" Los Angeles Times
- ^ "Articles about Haing S Ngor - Los Angeles Times". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ AsianWeek]' Staff and Associated Press. "Philadelphia Chinatown Wins Stadium Fight. AsianWeek. November 24–30, 2000. Retrieved on November 8, 2011.
- ^ "Chinatown Los Angeles". Chinatownla.com. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ Balfour, Amy C.: "Lonely Planet Los Angeles Encounter Guide 2nd Ed.", pag 130. Lonely Planet Publications PTY, 2009 LTD
- ^ a b "Central L.A. - Mapping L.A. - Los Angeles Times". Projects.latimes.com. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ "Eastside - Mapping L.A. - Los Angeles Times". Projects.latimes.com. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ [1] "Chinatown," Mapping L.A., Los Angeles Times
- ^ a b The Thomas Guide, Los Angeles County 2006, page 634
- ^ Google maps
- ^ a b c d e f [2] "Chinatown," Mapping L.A., Los Angeles Times
- ^ "$20,000 or less Ranking - Mapping L.A. - Los Angeles Times". Projects.latimes.com. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ "Asian", Mapping L.A., Los Angeles Times
- ^ [3] "Chinatown Schools," Mapping L.A., Los Angeles Times
- ^ Betty Hallock, "Chinatown dim sum palace Empress Pavilion evicted, closes doors after almost 25 years", Los Angeles Times, June 4, 2013.
- ^ Reichl, Ruth (January 13, 1991). "Grab That Cart! : Ocean Seafood has quickly become the place for dim sum in Chinatown, and no wonder". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ STEIN, PAT (February 12, 1998). "Can you do downtown L.A. on foot? You betcha!". The San Diego Union - Tribune. p. NIGHT.D.
- ^ a b Thursby, Keith (2010-02-09). "William 'Bill' Binder dies at 94; ran Philippe's eatery". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-02-26.
- ^ a b c POOL, BOB (October 8, 1998). "After Many Years, Little Joe's Will Just Fade Away". Los Angeles Times. p. 1.
- ^ "Little Italy hidden in L.A.'s tangled roots". Daily News (Los Angeles, Calif.). October 10, 2010. p. A.2.
- ^ Vincent, Roger (March 7, 2009). "REDEVELOPMENT; Chinatown project is halted; A bankruptcy stalls a complex planned for the Little Joe's site.". Los Angeles Times. p. B.1.
- ^ Mallory., Michael (December 2, 2002). "They're empty, but full of promise; Renting out vacant buildings as film locations can fill the needs of owners, production companies and the community.". Los Angeles Times. p. E.6.
- ^ Rasmussen, Cecilia (2003-07-13). "Pasadena's Gold Line will travel a history-laden route". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-07-29.
- ^ "City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks". Laparks.org. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ "Chinese Chamber of Commerce LA". Lagoldendragonparade.com. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ [4][dead link]
- ^ "L.A. Chinatown Firecracker". Firecracker10k.org. 2013-06-30. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ "Welcome to Miss LA Chinatown Pageant". Misslachinatown.com. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ "CRA Approves Expansion of French Hospital - Los Angeles Times". Articles.latimes.com. 1985-09-22. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ "Group Plans Rescue of French Hospital - Los Angeles Times". Articles.latimes.com. 1985-09-22. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ firstname.lastname@example.com. "Jeanne d'Arc sculpture -French Hospital in Los Angeles". You-are-here.com. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ "County Correction Facilities & Jails - Los Angeles County". Laalmanac.com. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ a b "Film locations for Chinatown (1974)". Movie-locations.com. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ a b Los Angeles Chinatown Restaurants Shops Sightseeing
- ^ "Hollywoodusa.co.uk". Hollywoodusa.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ Richard Verrier, 'Gangster Squad' adds to L.A.'s Chinatown credits, Los Angeles Times, August 28, 2012
- ^ "Filming Locations of I Love You Man - part 2". Seeing-stars.com. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ "Salvador Apablasa, 75; Descendant of Pioneer Los Angeles Landowners," Los Angeles Times, March 22, 1985, page C-2
- ^ Los Angeles Chinatown Visitor Map, Chinatown B.I.D, 2006
- ^ My-Thuan Tran, Revisiting Haing Ngor's murder: 'Killing Fields' theory won't die, Los Angeles Times, January 21, 2010
- ^ Jim Hill, Actor Haing Ngor found gunned down outside L.A. home, CNN, February 27, 1996
- ^ "Bio". Lisa See. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ "A Young Thief," Los Angeles Times, September 28, 1887, page 1
- ^ [5] Location of the Weyse residence on Mapping L.A.
- American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods, Bonnie Tsui, 2009 ISBN 978-1-4165-5723-4 Official website
- Ki Longfellow, China Blues, Eio Books 2012, ISBN 0-9759255-7-1
Contains detailed history of Chinese immigration to California and other historical information relating to Chinatown. Also, how the Chinese were treated in California.
External links[edit]
- Los Angeles Chinese American Museum
- Los Angeles Chinatown Firecracker Run
- Chinese Historical Society of Southern California (Los Angeles Chinatown)
- Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles
- Los Angeles Chinatown Business Council Official Website
- KCET Departures interview with Munson Kwok Chinatown community leader
- [7] Chinatown crime map and statistics
- Pictures of Chinatown in 1911, from the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library
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Using the Force. Messing with kids' heads can be fun!
The classroom blog: This is how you do it, science style!
Scientists pick apart list of nonsense
Bell uses the key technique that denialists use in debates, dubbed by Eugenie Scott the "Gish gallop", named after a master of the style, anti-evolutionist Duane Gish. The Gish gallop raises a barrage of obscure and marginal facts and fabrications that appear at first glance to cast doubt on the entire edifice under attack, but which on closer examination do no such thing. In real-time debates the number of particularities raised is sure to catch the opponent off guard; this is why challenges to such debates are often raised by enemies of science. Little or no knowledge of a holistic view of any given science is needed to construct such scattershot attacks.To me, the picking apart of the various assertions that Bell presents is the best part. Not only does it show how easy it is to form such careless arguments, but it also provides a highly readable science primer on some of the more recent research in climatology, all in an effort to inform on the current trends in cyclonic activity, ocean cooling, sea levels, polar snow fall, ice melting, etc. The net effect is that it becomes clear that the Forbes article is largely nonsense from a scientific point of view (since Tobis and Mandia do point out the one assertion where Bell may have a valid argument), full of polemic where language is spun accordingly, and really a disheartening example of poor press. Anyway, great fodder for a class where discussing these sorts of things (including an opportunity to also critique Tobis and Mandia's piece) is key. Now, all I need is to find an article with an opposing view that is both responsibly written and uses the same lens of robust research data - something tells me that might be a little trickier... Forbes' rich list of nonsense
The Rap Guide to Evolution: Helping out with the music videos.
Quite a few biology and psychology teachers already use the rap songs in their classes to introduce evolutionary concepts to their students, and these videos will make an even more potent vehicle for communicating science in an entertaining manner. The initial funding from the Wellcome Trust allows us to shoot live footage for each video with a professional film crew, edit it, and set up a website to distribute the videos. This phase of the project will be completed by mid-December. The additional funding from Crowdfunder will allow us to produce original animation and digital effects and license high-quality nature footage from the BBC, to make the vision of each video really come to life.In any event, check out the songs, the video above and also the link below if you want to help out. The Rap Guide to Evolution DVD Project
How not to go crazy traveling with young children
(Clockwise from left) Piazza Navona, Rome, Italy; Arc de Triomphe, Paris, France; near Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh, Scotland; 2010
Just so you know, Ben and Hannah are my children. You've might have seen them in this previous post, and like any parent, I love them dearly. Nevertheless, traveling with very young children is an interesting experience, as it is by turns wonderful, exhausting, memorable, frustrating, and (just to be clear) exhausting. You are, after all, interacting with a tourist that would most likely rank the playground or the cat that they saw by a tree, far above the Eiffel Tower or the Colosseum. Also, if you're lucky enough to be staying somewhere where there is indoor swimming, then you can rest assured that you will hear of nothing else.
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Students doing right by making medicine accessible to the developing world.
Many important medicines and public health technologies are developed in academic laboratories. Their accessibility in poor nations is profoundly affected by the research, patenting and licensing decisions made by universities. We are a group of university students who believe that our universities have an opportunity and a responsibility to improve global access to public health goodsThis is important for a number of reasons. One example is that it recognizes that almost all therapeutics have their humble beginnings at some lab bench at some university. This isn't necessarily the finished product, but it is often the "eureka" moment that can start the path towards a medicine with real life benefits. Because of this, that academic lab and its researchers, have this opportunity to lay down some ground rules when the discovery is ultimately marketed out to some company. For instance, they can dictate that licensing is different (amenable to generics) when circumstances compel the drug to be sold in markets that simply can't afford the usual prices set by pharmaceutical companies (think HIV medicine in developed versus developing countries). Unfortunately, this amazing opportunity is usually a missed opportunity: which is why UAEM members stay up nights thinking about ways, to advocate, educate, and guide universities to do the right thing. Anyway, if you're connected to the university system, it's a must to check it out. There might already be a UAEM chapter at your school (there is at mine). If not, there's also help available to set one up. Universities Allied for Essential Medicines
Star Wars posters by Tom Whalen
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The Nagoya Protocol: the first step towards saving the endangered Unicorn?
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The Candy Hierarchy
LATEST: The Candy Hierarchy has been updated for 2012.With Halloween approaching, I thought it would be amusing to write a bit about candy, or more specifically, a system that aims to rank it. In this case, the rubric would be according to "emotional zeal" or something more jargony sounding like "joy induction." Anyway, this hierarchy is the work of a friend and colleague, Ben Cohen. Ben is an environmental historian over at the University of Virginia, but in a previous life, he and I use to write on a blog together. This partnership happened because of our backgrounds publishing science humour (see Ben's clip list here), so in some respects, this "Candy Hierarchy" is just another creative juncture. However, since I'm loving how you can get immediate feedback from the Boing Boing community, I'm also thinking that we could use this opportunity to throw a little kickass "peer review" into the ranking. Kickass because: (1) I know some people are going to be deeply offended by the rankings; (2) the rankings were last updated in 2008, and are therefore long overdue for some revision; and (3) well, isn't peer review just kickass anyway? Oh yeah - the graphic is new (just made it today): hopefully if you play in the comments, some of us can use it one day as a slide for an interesting discussion on the scientific method - yes? Anyway, read on...
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My virtual swag bag for biodiversity and Nagoya COP10 includes Zhu Zhu pets.
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Do you know what this is? (Pretty sure it's not a Tribble)
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Chapter Titles from my Unicorn Physics Textbook
Thanks for reading and "May the scientific method always be with you."
Phylomon cards: "EUROPEAN HONEY BEE, I CHOOSE YOU!"
I had a great experience here at Boing Boing, and want to send on a big thanks to Mark, Cory, Xeni, David, Rob and the rest of the crew for letting me spend some quality time here. I'm also grateful to the many museum folks who let me chat with them, and so graciously showed me their projects. Kudos especially to Bob Bloomfield for the warm welcome and the many discussions on biodiversity advocacy. Hopefully, my posts didn't dilute the overall awesomeness here at Boing Boing, and at the every least, I hope a few more people are interested in Nagoya COP10. Also, it was fun to do my part to increase the Chewbacca quotient (even if only slightly) here at the site.
With that, I'd like to end with two last requests. Both related to biodiversity: one is kind of worthy, the other a little goofy. One requires folks of the artistic bent, the other maybe a more scientific approach. Read the rest
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Nagoya COP10 Primer #4: with reference to Twitter
Nagoya COP10 Primer #1: with references to Star Wars
Nagoya COP10 Primer #2: with a reference to Kevin Bacon
Primer #2: with a reference to Kevin BaconNagoya COP10 sidebar: UNFCCC YOU!
Nagoya COP10 Primer #3: with a small reference to LOL cats
So what should be done at Nagoya? This is the 20 million species plus question. And for all of the criticism that I've (and others) have proffered, we should appreciate that the task at hand is going to be quite the challenge. If nothing else, this is immediately clear from the often anthrocentric (humans rule the Earth and are just playing our role on the evolutionary front, so deal with it!) commentary left on biodiversity pieces throughout the internet.
There is a somewhat official Strategic Plan document out there, one that (with a remarkable lack of brevity) highlights 2020 goals and attempts to identify the process and partners to be involved. It's worth a look, although probably best absorbed by taking in the tables shown on page 19 on. It involves a list of some 20 different target statements. Some of which are short, bouncy, although still vague like a twitter tweet:
1. By 2020, everyone is aware of the value of biodiversity and what steps they can take to protect it.
Others are more to the point:
11. By 2020, At least 15% of land and sea areas, including the most critical terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats, have been protected through effectively managed protected areas and/or other means, and integrated into the wider land- and seascape.
A few establish direct talking points for individual COP members:
16. By 2020, Each Party has an appropriate, up-to-date, effective and operational national biodiversity strategy, consistent with this Strategic Plan, based on adequate assessment of biodiversity, its value and threats, with responsibilities allocated among sectors, levels of government, and other stakeholders, and coordination mechanisms are in place to ensure implementation of the actions needed.
And this one, almost works as a haiku:
3. By 2020 Subsidies harmful
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LACEY, Wash. – Presentations by faculty and students from the
Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, as well as an
exhibit of items from the university's museum collection, promise to
offer a fascinating look at Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
during a three-day
July 18-20 on the Lacey campus of Saint Martin's University.
The museum items, which include a photo-electrical human acupuncture
model, have been on display throughout the world for other various
exhibits before their arrival at Saint Martin's. It is the first
time the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is
participating in an exhibit within the United States.
"We are very excited to have these items here on campus and for
the surrounding community to see and learn more about them," says
Josephine Yung, vice president of International Programs and
Development at Saint Martin's, who has been working in coordination
with the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine to
prepare for the three-day event.
Both universities are cosponsoring the exhibit, which is based on
an eight-year history of cultural and academic collaboration between
the two institutions.
Traditional Chinese Medicine dates back to the second century
B.C.E., and its practices are based on a belief of
interconnectedness, that the human body is part of its larger
environment. TCM focuses on maintaining balance in one's life and
practices include herbal remedies, acupuncture, moxibustion,
cupping, tui na therapeutic massage, dietary therapy, qi gong and
tai ji.
The event is free and portions of it are open to the public.
Exhibit planners are extending a welcome to a variety of people from
the surrounding community who wish to attend the exhibit, including
TCM practitioners, health care practitioners and senior centers.
Children are also welcome to take part in an interactive
demonstration that is going to be assisted by staff from the Lacey
Timberland Public Library. That workshop, "TCM for Children" (ages
5-12), will be held Friday, July 19, 10 a.m.–noon, at Cebula Hall,
and will include a lesson in Tai Chi exercise, the TCM view of how
the human body works and what causes diseases.
Two other workshops will be offered. Practitioners of TCM are
invited to attend a session on the "Integration of Western Medicine
and Traditional Chinese Medicine in China" on Friday, July 19, 8–9
a.m., in Cebula Hall. Presenters will examine the current trends and
development of TCM, as well as the synergy between TCM and Western
medicine in China. The public is invited to attend "The TCM's
Approach to Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle," Saturday, July 20,
10–11:30 a.m., in Cebula Hall.
For more information, please e-mail:
TCM Exhibit.
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Josephine Yung
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360-438-4375; email@example.com
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