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:
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‘The Importance of California Agricultural Exports for our State Economy’ – Salinas, CA , March 19

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

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. 

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. 

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/

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Tsinghua 2010 Chinese New Year Party

Please join us for the "Tsinghua 2010 Chinese New Year Party" on Feb. 19th.

We'd like to present a program of 8 performances, all by Tsinghua alumni and families, from 1960s, to late 1990s, and to the next generation of Tsinghua alumni! Please see the program and details online and in the attachment.
http://www.tsinghua.net/main/ index.php?q= ODNkNTYzYmYzNHM9MTA2

We are pleased to have the original musicians of Maya Zhongguo , who are Tsinghua Alumni, to join us. MaYaZhongguo was the hottest song online with more than 290,000 hits within three months after its first online on Oct 1st 2009! The band visited China and was invited to Hunan Satellite TV 2010 spring festival show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=5Z5C8j5CjLE&feature=related

Following the performances, we will host Karaoke party, dance party, game rooms, and prize draws till midnight. For the convenience of families, there will be a childcare/game room too.

When: 7:30pm--12:00am Feb. 19th (Fri)
Where: 6148 Bollinger Road, San Jose, CA 95129 (CPAA 飞扬艺术中心)
Tickets:
Online: $8 for adults, $4 for seniors (over 60)
http://www.tsinghua.net/main/ index.php?q= ODNkNTYzYmYzNHM9MTA2

At door: $10 for adults, $5 for seniors (over60)

Please come to join in this grand party and celebrate Chinese New Year. You will certainly meet old friends, and get to know fresh faces with each head turn.

 ‘The Importance of California Agricultural Exports for our State Economy’

Date: March 19, 2010

Presented by the Monterey Bay International Trade Association (MBITA) and the Salinas Valley Chamber of Commerce

http://www.mbita.org/events/calagexports-seminar.html

Fee: Free for lifetime members; $10 for members and $25.00 for non members
RSVP send email to rsvp@cina.org with subject "CINA 2/17 name = ". Additional $10 for no rsvp

Venue: Fenwick & West, LLP.
801 California Street
Mountain View CA

CNetwork 2010 Chinese New Year Gala