The Rocky Road to Liberty: A Documented History of Chinese Immigration and Exclusion
Chinese American Society (CAS) is organizing an event for its book debut “The Rocky Road to Liberty: A Documented History of Chinese Immigration and Exclusion”. This event is dedicated to celebrate the 160 years of immigration history of Chinese Americans in the US, to raise awareness of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1892, and to support the immigration reforms for the new century. Many politicians at city, state and federal level will attend this event, including Congressman Mike Honda and State assembly member Paul Fong.
The event is co-sponsored by the California History Center. Specific information for the event is as follows:
Time: 3-5pm, Saturday, March 27th
Venue: California History Center
(Next to Flint Center in De Anza College)
Address: 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino, CA 95014
There are two tiers of tickets: the $60 ticket includes the book and a cocktail luncheon, the $20 ticket is for cocktail only. Please send this event information via email asap to reach all of your association members and encourage them to attend this important event concerning Chinese immigrants in the U.S.. For ticket purchase, please contact Harry Luan: 925-260-0239, email: sluan2000@gmail.com.
CAS is a non-profit organization to inspire Chinese Americans to participate in social and political services. We are a new organization with ambitious determination to make our voice heard and goals reached.
CINA Entrepreneur Thought Leader Mentor Program:
Winning an Audience with a Venture Investor
Date / Time: March 25 2010 - 06:30pm to 09:00pm
Fee: Free for lifetime members, $5.00 for regular paid members and $25.00 for non-members ( Including membership )
Send email to
rsvp@cina.org with subject CINA 3/25 name ="
Venue: Fenwick & West, LLP.
801 California Street
Mountain View, CA Speaker:David Smith, Managing partner, Cambridge Manhattan Group; Author of Zero-to-IPO, a best selling book.
‘The Importance of California Agricultural Exports for our State Economy’ – Salinas, CA , March 19
Seminar - Luncheon
Cathay House
213 Monterey Street
Salinas, CA 93901
An Inside Look at Tencent/QQ (走近腾讯-企鹅传奇)
Sunday March 14, 2010, 2:00 pm - 6:00pm
Hilton Santa Clara Hotel
4949 Great America Pkwy
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Speakers:
Jeff Xiong, Co-CTO
Xi Dan, Vice President
Gordon Sun, Chief Scientist
Peter Zheng, General Manager, QZone Product Center
Steve Zheng, General Manager, Tencent Research Institute
Ying Sha, Director of Game Development
As you may know, Tencent is the China's biggest and world’s third biggest Internet Company by market value. It is also the best-performing stock in the Hang Seng index in 2009. Founded in 1998, Tencent has grown into China's largest and most used Internet service portal. As of September 30th, 2009, the number of registered QQ Instant Messenger users has reached 1.057 billion. Active users numbered at 484.9 million. Peak concurrent users have reached 75.50 million. QQ Games platform counted about 5.7 million users simultaneously on-line. QQ.com has become China's most visited Internet portal website.
Presently, Tencent is aiming its operations at the strategic goal of providing users with a "one-stop online life service". Tencent's Internet platforms QQ, QQ.com, QQ Games, and PaiPai.com have brought together China's largest Internet community.
Agenda:
2:00PM – 2:30PM Registration and Networking
2:30PM – 4:30PM Tencent Presentation
4:30PM – 6:00PM Q&A
The event will be in Chinese language. Snacks and drinks will be provided.
Admission is free. However seats are limited. RSVP today to guarantee your spot.
To RSVP, send your name and phone number to tomqizhang@QQ.com.
2010 Trade & Investment Conference: Opportunities and Strategies in Emerging Economies on 3/12 from 10am to 6pm
Discussing financing and carbon markets among other topics, our distinguished panelists include:
- former US Trade Representative, Ambassador Alan Wolff
- Director of Operations for the US International Trade Commission, Dr. Robert A. Rogowsky
- Acting President of OPIC, Dr. Lawrence Spinelli
- Founder and former Director of the McKinsey Global Institute, Dr. William W. Lewis
It promises to be a good chance for high-level interaction with officials as well as a forum to meet trade professionals such as members of the very active Monterey Bay International Trade Association who are co-sponsoring the event and will shortly make a trade mission (focusing on clean tech) to China.
For more info, please go to: http://blogs.miis.edu/tradeconference/
