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Master’s Chai with Eric Liu
July 29, 2014 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Eric Liu ’90 — author, educator, civic entrepreneur, and former Clinton speechwriter/policy advisor discussing his new book: A CHINAMAN’S CHANCE: One Family’s Journey to the Chinese American Dream.
EXCLUSIVE MASTER’S CHAI AT CHSA MUSEUM (AFTERNOON)
Tuesday, July 29, 4-5pm
CHSA Museum’s Learning Center
965 Clay Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
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FREE EVENT: Open only to CHSA members and Yale alumni groups. CHSA members must bring their membership ID. If you would like to attend but are not a CHSA member, you can sign up for membership that day. Learn more about our membership here.
WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL SPEAKER SERIES (EVENING)
Tuesday, July 29, 7-8pm
World Affairs Council of Northern California
312 Sutter St #200, San Francisco, CA 94108
Open to the public. Non-member tickets usually $15, discount for Yale alumni $7.
Student tickets available for $5 through WAC website link above.
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With humor, honesty, and intelligence, Liu explores the complex dimensions of American identity against the backdrop of China and America through searching personal essays in which he traces his family’s history, culture, and future. He considers the meaning of Confucius in modern life; the unseen role of Chinese Americans in shaping how we read the Constitution; his daughter’s efforts to select aspects of her Chinese inheritance; and the all too-American idea of tiger parenting. A CHINAMAN’S CHANCE offers reflections of one Chinaman on the role of chance in his own family’s journey and on the chance America still has to be something greater than the sum of its many tinted parts.
Organized in partnership with the Chinese Historical Society of America Museum, the oldest and largest organization in the country dedicated to the interpretation, promotion, and preservation of the social, cultural and political history and contributions of the Chinese in America.
Eric Liu will also be at Book Passage in the Ferry Building on Monday, July 28 at 6:00pm to introduce A Chinaman’s Chance.