Sojourner Award
Description:
The early Chinese immigrant pioneers were typically sojourners – workers looking for a piece of the Gold Mountain to take back to China to help their families. Many faced conditions of racism, exclusion and economic exploitation, even as they helped transform America by building railroads, establishing fisheries, harvesting crops, and producing in factories. Our place today in this society rests, in part, on their legacy. It is in memory of their unrecognized struggles and profound contributions that we offer the Sojourner Award.
Members of the New England Chinese
Women’s Association congregated in their
(CHSNE collection)
Description:
The early Chinese immigrant pioneers were typically sojourners – workers looking for a piece of the Gold Mountain to take back to China to help their families. Many faced conditions of racism, exclusion and economic exploitation, even as they helped transform America by building railroads, establishing fisheries, harvesting crops, and producing in factories. Our place today in this society rests, in part, on their legacy. It is in memory of their unrecognized struggles and profound contributions that we offer the Sojourner Award.
© 2008 Chinese Historical Society of New England Inc.
China Trade Center ▪ 2 Boylston Street, G-3 ▪ Boston, MA 02116
Phone: (617) 338-4339 ▪ Fax: (617) 338-9339 ▪ info@chsne.org
2007 Sojourner Award Recipient:
Chinese Students Memorial Society
Under the leadership of Richard DeAngelis of Connecticut and the late Timothy Tsung-lu Kao, the Chinese Students Memorial Society of Connecticut was formed to preserve and document the history of Yung Wing (the first Chinese to graduate from a U.S. college, Yale University) and the Chinese Educational Mission that brought 120 Chinese boys to study in New England schools from 1872 to 1881.
Chinese Students Memorial Society
Under the leadership of Richard DeAngelis of Connecticut and the late Timothy Tsung-lu Kao, the Chinese Students Memorial Society of Connecticut was formed to preserve and document the history of Yung Wing (the first Chinese to graduate from a U.S. college, Yale University) and the Chinese Educational Mission that brought 120 Chinese boys to study in New England schools from 1872 to 1881.
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Past recipients:
2006 - May Lo, Felix Lui, Wang YMCA
2005 - Frank Chin, Chee Kong Tong / Chinese Freemasons
2003 - Bo Sim Mark, National Archives and Records Administration, Northeast Region
2002 - Tunney Lee, Schlesinger Library
2000 - Sampan Community Newspaper
1998 - Neil Chin, Kew Sing Music Club
1997 - William Seamy Wong, Joseph Yuu, New England Chinese Women's Association
1996 - Paul Chan, Doris Chu, Eugene Wu, Kwong Kow Chinese School (Fung Ming Lee, Principal)
1995 - Aili S. Chin, David S.Y. Wong, Reginald Wong