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...three years ago, California was home to 2.85 million Asian Americans, about 38% of the nation's total. Between the 1970 and 1990 censuses, their numbers in Los Angeles County alone increased fivefold. Paul Ong, a UCLA urban-planning professor and author, predicts that by the year 2020, Asians in California will number 8.5 million, accounting for about 20% of the state's population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perils of Success | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...glazed with a light celadon glaze. While similar traditions can be seen in contemporaneous Chinese porcelains, the shapes of Korean porcelains are more inventive. The porcelain wares of the Henderson are excellent representatives of the tradition. Finally, another ceramic tradition of the Choson Period is that of punch'ong stoneware. These wares are made from stoneware covered in a layer of white slip and then applied with various means of decoration, from stamped to painted designs...

Author: By Aren R. Cohen, | Title: Korea's Ceramic Crafts | 2/18/1993 | See Source »

...work at theMuseum of Science. "Well, even though I'm ofChinese heritage, I was born in America. In fact,my Chinese probably isn't too much better thanyours." What hasn't been explained to me iscrossing Mt. Auburn street to the strains fromtownies' cars of "Ch'ing ch'ong (sp.?) sianara(sp.?)" amplified and distorted by the Dopplereffect. More frightening was being accosted lateone night by very drunk and white Harvard men with"Hey China girl, let's see what's in yoursleeves." Ha, ha, ha, ha, HA. "What makes youthink you're any better than me?" my mind screams...

Author: By Joan H.M. Hsiao, | Title: Remembering Their Harvard Experience | 6/4/1986 | See Source »

...Robie (H) def. Kien Ong...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Racquetmen Snap Losing Streak; Crush Hapless MIT Squad' 8-1 | 2/13/1979 | See Source »

Married. Fou Ts'Ong, 39, concert pianist who in 1959 defected to the West from Communist China; and Hijong Hyun, 29, daughter of South Korea's Ambassador to Morocco; he for the second time (after an earlier marriage to Zamira Menuhin, daughter of Violin Virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin), she for the first; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 8, 1973 | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

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