Connie Young Yu

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  Published on: 10/29/2009    Last Visited: 10/29/2009  

  Connie Yung Yu, 1st Vice President

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  Published on: 8/10/2009    Last Visited: 8/10/2009  

  "It was a place for both cultures," said Connie Young Yu, vice president of the Chinese Historical Society of America, whose parents' 1937 wedding reception was held in the building.
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  Yu echoed Yamaichi, highlighting the building's role in sheltering Asian Americans during a time when they weren't exactly welcomed to this country with open arms.

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  Published on: 3/15/2008    Last Visited: 9/4/2009  

  Welcome to this public open house for the excavation currently taking place at the site of San Jose's major historic Chinatown, Heinlenville, the history of which is featured in the amazing book, Chinatown, San Jose, USA by CHSA Board Vice President Connie Young Yu (San Jose: History San José, 2001).

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  Cultural Exhibits Masato "Marty" Matsuo and Connie Young Yu.
  
  SARATOGA â€" The Hakone Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the Japanese-style Hakone Gardens in Saratoga, announced this month that Masato "Marty" Matsuo will serve as chairman and Connie Young Yu as vice chairman.
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  Yu is a resident of Los Altos Hills and is a renowned historian of Chinese American life in the U.S. Her family was instrumental in saving the 18-acre gardens 47 years ago when her father led the formation of a private partnership to restore and preserve the gardens in 1961.
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  The election of Dr. Matsuo and Ms. Yu as the leaders of Hakone Foundation will have an enormous impact in broadening and strengthening Hakone's support and visibility not only throughout the Asian communities of Northern California, but also throughout Japan and China."

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  Published on: 2/9/2009    Last Visited: 2/9/2009  

  Working to ensure that local Asian American historical sites are recognized, restored and made available to the public, Young Yu has been instrumental in launching projects across the Bay Area. They include: the restoration of the Immigration Barracks at Angel Island; exhibits of the Ng Shing Gung building at History Park in San Jose; the Chinese Walls in Woodside; and the archeological excavation on the Chinatown site in San Jose.
  
  Her work and passion for recounting the experiences of immigrants draws on years of research, oral histories and her own family background. Young Yu's paternal grandfather, Young Soong Quong, was among the early merchants of the Heinlenville Chinatown in San Jose, and her maternal grandmother, Lee Yoke Suey, was detained on Angel Island for 16 months while the Chinese Exclusion Act was in effect.
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  Young Yu is the author of Chinatown, San Jose, USA. She is a member of the Chinese Historical and Cultural Project, the Advisory Council of Asian Americans for Community Involvement and is a trustee of the Hakone Foundation. Young Yu is also a former trustee of her alma mater, Mills College in Oakland.

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  Connie Young Yu Historian, Writer and Board Member Chinese Historical Society of America
  
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  As an Asian American historian for the past 40 years, Connie Young Yu has made local history accessible and relevant to the Bay Area community through articles, presentations and books recounting the early experiences of Chinese Americans.

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  Published on: 12/18/2008    Last Visited: 12/18/2008  

  Connie Yung Yu, 1st Vice President

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  Connie Young Yu, CHSA Board Member, historian and author of Chinatown, San Jose, USA will share her knowledge of and involvement in Heilenville, the San Jose Chinatown and multicultural community that has been transformed into today's Japantown.
  
  As a descendant of the Heilenville community, Yu and her family were central to the creation of San Jose's Ng Shin Gung museum. Yu will also discuss newly emerging results of an archaeological excavation taking place at the site of her grandparent's store.

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  Published on: 7/30/2007    Last Visited: 12/4/2007  

  The panel discussion will feature Judge Harry Low, attorneys Bill Ong Hing, Donald Ungar and Michael Lee and historian Connie Young Yu.

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  Published on: 5/1/2008    Last Visited: 5/1/2008  

  The five new honorees who have been chosen based upon their outstanding contributions to their local communities and the Bay Area community at large are: Regina Clewlow (Engineers for a Sustainable World); Rev. Norman Fong, (Chinatown Community Development Center); Cathy Inamasu (Nihonmachi Little Friends); Christina Mei-Yue Wong (Chinese for Affirmative Action); and Connie Young Yu (Chinese Historical Society of America).
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  Connie Young Yu has been instrumental in launching projects such as the restoration of the Immigration Barracks at Angel Island, the Chinese Walls in Woodside and the archeological excavation on the Chinatown site in San Jose.

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