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The following is from the press release for the event:

Presented in partnership with Facing History and Ourselves’ Community Conversation series, New York Times best-selling author Lisa See will present and sign her latest novel “Shanghai Girls” (2009), which follows the story of two sisters through 1930s Shanghai, Angel Island, and Los Angeles Chinatown. This program will continue the dialogue of Chinese and Chinese American presence in Hollywood sparked by the exhibit, Hollywood Chinese: The Arthur Dong Collection. To RSVP, please call (213) 485-8567 or email [email protected] with the subject heading “Lisa See Book Talk” by Oct. 26, 2009.

Facing History and Ourselves and The Allstate Foundation will host a Community Conversation entitled “Immigration and the Los Angeles Experience in Shanghai Girls” with best-selling author Lisa See.  Shanghai Girls (2009) follows the story of two sisters through 1930s Shanghai, Angel Island, and Los Angeles Chinatown. The event is held in partnership with the Chinese American Museum and will take place at the museum in the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument, the site of the original Chinatown in Los Angeles. Following the talk and book-signing, participants will have an opportunity to view “Hollywood Chinese: The Arthur Dong Collection,” an exhibition of movie memorabilia collected during the ten-year research for Arthur Dong’s documentary on the Chinese in American feature films.
 
Lisa See was born in Paris, but grew up in Los Angeles, and spent much of her time in Chinatown. She is the author of the novels Shanghai Girls, Peony in Love, Flower Net, The Interior, and Dragon Bones, as well as the widely praised memoir, On Gold Mountain: The One Hundred Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family. Her articles and book reviews have appeared in dozens of national publications. The Organization of Chinese American Women named her the 2001 National Woman of the Year. She designed a walking tour of Los Angeles Chinatown and wrote the companion guidebook for Angels Walk LA to celebrate the opening of the MTA’s new Chinatown metro station. She resides in Los Angeles, where she serves as a Los Angeles City Commissioner on the Pueblo de Los Angeles Monument Authority.
 
“Since the release of Facing History’s study guide Becoming American: The Chinese Experience, the organization has explored this history as a lens to consider the Chinese experience as immigrants to the United States, which raises universal questions about what it means to become American,” said Dan Alba, regional director of Facing History and Ourselves. “We hope the event with Lisa See will spark a dialogue about our local history, memory, identity and belonging that will resonate will all Angelenos.”
 
The event is the ninth in Facing History’s Community Conversations series in Los Angeles, sponsored by The Allstate Foundation, which brings prominent authors, filmmakers and policy leaders into communities to discuss topics of civic participation, individual and collective responsibility and diversity.
 
This event is free and open to the public. To RSVP for the October 29th Community Conversation, call (626) 744-1177 ext 23, or visit www.facinghistory.org/allstate.

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