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Connie Young Yu (born June 19, 1941) (Chinese: 虞容儀芳; pinyin: Yú Róng Yífāng) is a Chinese American writer, activist, historian, and lecturer. She has written and contributed to many articles and books, notably including Profiles in Excellence: Peninsula Chinese Americans , Chinatown San Jose, U.S.A., and Voices from the Railroad: Stories by Descendants of Chinese Railroad Workers .
Connie Young Yu is an historian, author, and expert on Heinlenville Chinatown that originally occupied part of the space where modern day Japantown now rests in San Jose, CA. She wrote both a book (Chinatown, San Jose, USA) and the script to a documentary film (Digging to Chinatown) about Heinlenville. Additionally, she wrote the text for “On ...
Connie Young Yu is a historian, archeologist, activist and author on the Chinese experience in America. In this episode, Suzanne Barnett, host of Community B...
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Alfred John Young and his sister, Connie Young Yu, have certainly left their mark on the world as descendants of a pioneering Chinese American family. With roots that reach back to the Transcontinental Railroad and San Jose’s Chinatown, their father, John C. Young, was a trailblazing colonel in the U.S. Army and helped to run a soy sauce company that has operated in San Francisco for over 75 ...
Connie Young Yu writes of the experiences of Chinese American women in "The World of Our Grandmothers" from Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings By and About Asian American Women. Once in San ...
Award-winning author and historian Connie Young Yu explores the Chinese experience during the Gold Rush.Chinese miners were among the ‘Forty-Niners,’ sailing...
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Jan 24, 2023 · Connie Young Yu - Part 1 of 2 . Date: January 24, 2023 Interviewer: Yvonne Kwan, Ellina Yin, Victoria Taketa Interviewee: Connie Young Yu (1941 - ). Connie Young Yu, a direct descendant of the Chinese Railroad workers, discusses her and her family's contributions to the history as well as social and cultural fabric of San Jose and San Francisco Chinatowns.
