Marysville's Chinatown - (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) by Brian Tom & Lawrence Tom & Chinese American Museum of Northern California
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Marysville s Chinatown was once one of the most important Chinatowns in America. The early Chinese settlers called Marysville Sanfow, or the third city, meaning the third city by river to the goldfields. Two of the first four Chinese American judges in California were from Marysville as was the first Chinese American elected to the San Francisco Board of Education. The Marysville Chinatown was among the first Chinatowns built in California s Gold Country and is the only one to survive to this day. Because of this, it is possible to view the full panorama of Chinese-American history through the viewpoint of this one Chinatown."<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Title: Asian Themed Books to Buy for the Holiday Season <br>Author: Staff Writer <br>Publisher: Asian Week <br>Date: 12/1/2009 <p> <p>CHINESE IN MARYSVILLE, MENDOCINO COUNTY, SAN JOSE AND SANTA CLARA <p><br>Arcadia Publishing Company books about Chinese American history gives reader a pictorial glimpse into the communities that grew up as Chinese pioneers emigrated from China to settle in Gold Mountain, their supposedly American dreamland. Among the books on Chinese in Arcadia s Images of America series, Brian Tom, founder of the Marysville Chinese Historical Museum is the author of CHINESE IN MARYSVILLE book. Lorraine Hee-Chorley s CHINESE IN MENDOCINO COUNTY tells of the Chinese who were instrumental in the county s development in the 1800s where little to this time has been written documenting their contributions to local history. Lillian Gong-Guy and I co-wrote the CHINESE IN SAN JOSE AND SANTA CLARA VALLEY, where we tried to display through photos the many Chinatowns that once stood in San Jose, and the difficulties faced in the late 1800s and early 1900s to establish a Chinese community for the many farm laborers who had immigrated to this area. Our book also tells of the history and contributions of those Chinese Americans who have since moved to the area to establish their own churches, community organizations, businesses, schools and political power as they assimilate into the Silicon Valley communities. Bill Wong s book CHINESE IN OAKLAND also tells the story of the Chinese settlements in this east bay community that thrived in 1906 when San Francisco Chinatown citizens escaped the Earthquake turmoil when its buildings were destroyed and damaged and they were forced to evacuate. Judy Yung also wrote about San Francisco s Chinatown history, thanks to Arcadia s dedication to bringing Chinese American history to readers around the world."<br><br>Title: Keeping Alive California's Chinese Legacy <br>Author: Linda Davis <br>Publication: Oakland Tribune <br>Date: 11/26/2008 <p><br>It wasn't enough to pen a book on Marysville's Chinatown, the last remaining active Chinatown from California's Gold Rush. <p><br>Piedmonter Brian Tom also realized a lifelong dream of establishing a Chinese-American Museum in Marysville, after years of collecting photos, memorabilia and research about the Chinese legacy in those boom days. <p><br>The Chinese-American Museum of Northern California opened in March, 2007 and is open the first Saturday of each month from noon to 4 p.m. It contains over 500 items on display, including 200 photos gleaned from Tom's family, other pioneering Marysville Chinese families, the Yuba County Library and other sources. <p><br>"Marysville's Chinatown," (Arcadia Publishing, $19.99) by Brian Tom and Lawrence Tom, was released last month as another in Arcadia's "Images of America" series. <p><br>"Brian is to be congratulated for keeping alive a piece of Chinese American history," said fellow Piedmonter Bill Wong, who wrote about Oakland Chinatown for Arcadia and contributed a chapter about Chinese detainees in an Arcadia book about Angel Island. <p><br>"(Chinese descendants) in more urban settings can sometimes forget. Bringing more attention to a very prototypical rural Chinatown is to be congratulated," Wong said. "Fact is, those of us who are interested in California history and those parts that make up history should be encouraged with what Brian has done, painting a fuller picture of American history." <p><br>Tom's book is a detailed look at the early Chinese Gold Rush settlers, many of whom were miners, others merchants, health practitioners or restaurant operators. <p><br>Tom grew up in Marysville, then earned a degree in political science from UC-Berkeley and later a law degree from UC-Davis. He founded and taught the Asian American studies program at UC-Davis in 1969 and was also a practicing attorney for many years. <p><br>"I had been thinking about (establishing) a museum for 40 years," Tom said. "Unless you capture (the history) in books or museums, the very important forming of a California identity will be lost. It was such a small part of the population." <p><br>Only a few Chinese descendants remain in Marysville, once a bustling gold town of 10,000 people. Many of them gradually moved to larger population centers like San Francisco or Oakland. But Marysville still has a few historic Chinese buildings, one of which houses Tom's 3,000 square-foot Chinese-American Museum; the building he purchased was built in 1858. <p><br>In the book Tom explores the history of his forebears from those Gold Rush days up to the present, where the Bok Kai or Bomb Day festival is held every year on the second day of the second month of the lunar year.<br><br>Title: Gifts of Prose <BR>Author: Claudia Morain <BR>Publisher: UC Davis News <BR>Date: 12/11/2008 <P><BR>Books make good gifts, especially at the holidays. Here are 13 new titles, all published by UC Davis faculty, alumni or staff during the past year (with two 2007 exceptions). Included are books that will appeal to beer lovers, bike enthusiasts and science fiction fans as well as soccer nuts, farmersa market regulars and Wikipediacs. Three of the books, in addition to being written by authors with UC Davis ties, also focus on the campus: One is a photographic tribute to the arboretum; another is a full-color catalog of works by Wayne Thiebaud and other renowned art department faculty; and the third is a novel set on campus in the a60s. <P><BR>For beer lovers. Or wine lovers. Or beer-and-wine lovers: aGrape vs. Grain: A Historical, Technological, and Social Comparison of Wine and Beera by Charles Bamforth, chair of food science and technology and the Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor in Malting and Brewing Sciences at UC Davis. Says Alan Tardi, author of aRomancing the Vinea: aaGrape vs. Graina offers a thorough, comparative look at mankind's two most beloved and culturally significant beverages (and) will surely change the mind of anyone who thinks of beer as wine's less-sophisticated 'poor relation.a (The bookas) jovial approach to the subject is as clean and refreshing as a Blanche de Bruges on a hot summer day ... I'd love to sit down and share a pint with its author!a <P><BR>For California history and Chinese American history buffs: aMarysvilleas Chinatown, a co-authored by Brian Tom (a70, law). While enrolled in law school at UC Davis, Tom led a coalition that established theAsian American Studies Program, the first student-founded academic program in the universityas history and one of the first Asian American studies programs nationwide. Tom went on to practice law in San Francisco for more than 25 years and now directs the Chinese American Museum of Northern California, which he also founded. aMarysvilleas Chinatown, a part of Arcadia Publishingas aImages of Americaa series, provides a wealth of information about one of the most important Chinatowns in America. <P><BR>For poets and painters: aMyself Painting: Poemsa by prizewinning poet, painter and novelist Clarence Major, a professor emeritus of English. Like a painter, Major evokes form and color to communicate images: "Desire, artichoke green ... leaves all radiant, / creating the thickness of blue shadows." He also apaintsa sounds. Major is a National Book Award Bronze Medal finalist, winner of the National Council on the Arts Award and the New York Cultural Foundation Prize. He is the author of numerous books of poetry as well as critically acclaimed fiction and nonfiction. <P><BR>aThe Global Game: Writers on Soccer, a includes poetry and prose from Ted Hughes, Gay Talese, Eduardo Galeano, GA1/4nter Grass, Giovanna Pollarolo, Mario Vargas Llosa and Elvis Costello, among others. The volume is edited by Alon Raab, a lecturer in religious studies, together with freelance soccer writer John Turnbull and Thom Satterlee, an associate professor of English at Taylor University. Andrei Markovits, author of aOffside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism, a praises the bookas awonderfully rich essaysa and adeeply nuanced literature.a <P><BR>aYOU SEE: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Facultya willcatch the eye of art lovers on your holiday gift list. The softbound volume is a full-color catalog of works in the campusas permanent collection by Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Manuel Neri, Wayne Thiebaud and William T. Wiley, five of the most significant artists to live and work in Northern California. The catalog, published in 2007 and available only at the UC Davis Bookstore, was created to accompany aYOU SEE, a an exhibit of the works held last summer at the Nelson Gallery on campus. The collection is now on a two-year tour of four other cities in California and Nevada. <P><BR>Weight-conscious readers, slogging their way through holiday feasts and dreading the perennial News Yearas diet resolution, may find welcome relief in aHealth at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight, a by Linda Bacon, a UC Davis nutritionist and independent nutrition consultant. Bacon encourages readers to emphasize healthy living rather than dieting or exercise programs, and to pay more attention to internal body cues that signal hunger and fullness than to calorie-counting. Her research has shown that obese women who follow this strategy make significant improvements in both metabolic and psychological health. <P><BR>Arboretum fans will recognize some of their favorite places in aA Walk through Nature at the Universityas Arboretum in Davis, California.a Photographed and written by Carol Chandler, a UC Davis physical education alumna and former UC regent, the 52-page, full-color tribute to the 100-acre refuge was published in 2007. <P><BR>aCalifornia's New Green Revolution: Pioneers in Sustainable Agriculture, a by cooperative extension specialist Desmond Jolly, profiles a cross-section offarmers and marketers who use and seek out innovative methods to protect natural resources while building community links with consumers through farmers markets and community-supported agriculture. Jolly, former director of the Small Farm Program, wrote the book with Isabella Kenfield, a former staff member. The full-color volume is available from the Small Farm Center, at http: //www.sfc.ucdavis.edu/docs/publications.asp?view=17. <P><BR>aDelanceyas Stapler: Love, Lust, Duty, Doom, Rage, Revelation and Pizza, a a novel by 1966 alum Dave Veith, is a flashback to UC Davis in the a60s, when draft boards loomed, aguys had to sign out the girls from their dormsa and female students awore nylon stockings to the pizza parlor." Veith, now retired, lives with his wife in Northern California. His book, based on his undergraduate years on campus, is available at http: //www.daveveith.com. <P><BR>aThe Bike to Work Guide: What You Need to Know to Save Gas, Go Green, Get Fit, a by Paul Dorn, assistant director of marketing for campus recreation, and Roni Sarig. The paperback guide is for cyclists who want to extend the fun they have biking on weekends to their daily commute. Those who haven't been on a bike in years but want to start saving on fuel and car costs will also find useful information. <P><BR>For scientists and science fiction lovers: In aNanovision: Engineering the Future, a Colin Milburn, assistant professor of English, argues that nanotechnology theories, laboratory instruments and research programs are inextricable from fictional narratives. Davis-based science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson has this to say about the book: aThere has been so much hype and controversy surrounding nanotech that it has been hard to figure out what it really is or might become. This wonderful book spectacularly clarifies matters a] That Colin Milburn is also often wickedly funny is much appreciated, and a very appropriate response to nanotechas constant evocations of paradise or apocalypse.a <P><BR>For Wikipedia users (and who isnat one?): aHow Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, a by Phoebe Ayers (user=phoebe), a librarian at the UC Davis Physical Sciences and Engineering Library and organizer of Wikimania conferences; Charles Matthews, a mathematician who has taught at Cambridge and Harvard; and Ben Yates, a technical editor who writes a blog about Wikipedia. In aHow Wikipedia Works, a the trio offers insight, anecdotes and tips for finding information and evaluating the quality and reliability of articles; contributing to existing articles; adding new articles that conform to Wikipediaas guidelines and best practices and therefore wonat be deleted; and communicating with other Wikipedians. <P><BR>For science fiction fans who also appreciate poetry: a25A[ Rocket Ship to the Stars.a Written by Gary Osgood Clark, the book is slim enough to fit in any stocking. Reviewer Paul Di Filippo, writing in Asimovas Science Fiction, calls it aenchanting.a Clark, retired after 25 years as a library assistant at UC Davis, has published three other collections of poetry. He lives in a Davis mobile home with his cat, Ariel. <P><BR>About UC Davis <BR>For 100 years, UC Davis has engaged in teaching, research and public service that matter to California and transform the world. Located close to the state capital, UC Davis has 31,000 students, an annual research budget that exceeds $500 million, a comprehensive health system and 13 specialized research centers. The university offers interdisciplinary graduate study and more than 100 undergraduate majors in four colleges -- Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering, and Letters and Science -- and advanced degrees from five professional schools: Education, Law, Management, Medicine, and Veterinary Medicine. The UC Davis School of Medicine and UC Davis Medical Center are located on the Sacramento campus near downtown. <BR><br>
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