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More than ninety years of bay area history: group homes for Chinese children.

Publication: Chinese America: History and Perspectives
Publication Date: 01-JAN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: More than ninety years of bay area history: group homes for Chinese children.(9H Panel Summary)

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(Original title: China America, a radiant light: a combined 93-year history of orphanages for Chinese children in the bay area)

LYNETTE CHOY UYEDA GIN, MODERATOR

Lifelong friendships and a few marriages resulted from connections made through two group homes for Chinese children in the Bay Area, Chung Mei and Ming Quong. Many interrelationships are still being discovered. Contrary to public perception of the era, these group homes for Chinese youth served as a safe haven and were not intended for "bad, incorrigible, or delinquent" juvenile offenders. They are a little-known piece of California's Chinese American history. This panel consisted of a fifteen-minute video presentation followed by four panelists who shared their experiences growing up in the group homes.

BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

chung Mei Home for Chinese Boys Berkeley, 1923. El Cerrito, 1934

Dr. Charles R. Shepherd was a Cantonese-speaking Baptist minister from England. After years of missionary work in China, Shepherd was sent as a missionary to San Francisco. Chinese boys at that time were barred from mixing with white boys at existing orphanages such...

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