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DESCRIPTION:The Oakland Asian Cultural Center and Eastwind Books of Berkeley present 
 \nA Book Talk with Monona Yin & Grant Din\n\nSunday, May 6, 2018\n\nDoors 
 Open: 2:00PM / Book Talk: 2:30PM / Q&A: 3:30PM\n\n\nRiding with the Wind: 
 Three Generations of My Family in China\n\nIn her new memoir, Riding with 
 the Wind: Three Generations of My Family in China, Fay Hoh Yin paints an 
 indelible portrait of her unusual family as the imperial era ends and war 
 with Japan begins. Her mother is among the first women in centuries to 
 escape foot binding and arranged marriage. She then uses her newfound 
 freedom to study physical education in the US in the early 1920s, returning 
 to China to become a pioneering educator for the next seventy years. 
 \n\nYin later comes to the U.S. herself, marries a fellow foreign student, 
 and starts a family. Tragically, she loses her husband at age thirty-seven, 
 but forges a unique partnership with her widowed mother-in-law that far 
 outlasts either of their marriages. Yin’s stories of daring, hardship, 
 and perseverance are deeply personal, yet illuminate the changing roles of 
 women in 20th century China and the United States.\n\nThe author’s 
 daughter Monona Yin, who edited and published the book, will read passages 
 and describe the creative process with her mother. She and moderator Grant 
 Din will discuss the challenge of preserving and documenting 
 first-generation immigrant women’s stories.\n\nFAY HOH YIN was born in 
 Beijing in 1932 and grew up during the Sino-Japanese and Chinese Civil 
 Wars. She and her family fled thousands of miles to escape the chaos, 
 finally settling in Taiwan in 1949. She later came to the U.S. and earned a 
 Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin. She retired in 1991 
 after working for twenty-six years as a virologist for the DuPont Company 
 in Wilmington, Delaware. Unfortunately, due to frail health, the author 
 will not be present.\n\nMONONA YIN is Director of Impact and Learning at 
 Borealis Philanthropy. From 2004-17, she directed capacity building at the 
 Four Freedoms Fund, a national donor collaborative that has invested over 
 $100 million in the immigrant rights movement. As an activist, Monona is a 
 co-founder and former staff director of CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities 
 in New York City. She graduated from Yale and lives in Brooklyn with her 
 husband and daughter.\n\nGRANT DIN has been a community and nonprofit 
 leader for over 30 years, most recently with the Angel Island Immigration 
 Station Foundation and Asian Neighborhood Design. He now provides 
 consulting on resource development, research, writing, and related tasks. 
 Current or recent clients include the San Francisco Planning Department, 
 Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, and National Coalition 
 for Asian Pacific American Community Development. Grant is also a 
 consultant for genealogy and family history research. He holds a BA from 
 Yale and an MA from Claremont Graduate University, and lives in Oakland 
 with his family.\n\nOakland Asian Cultural Center 388 Ninth Street, Ste 290 
 Oakland, CA 94607\n\n510-637-0455 www.oacc.cc\n\nFree and Open to the 
 Public\n\nSuggested Donations: $5 to $20\n\n\nOACC is supported by the 
 Akonadi Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, City of Oakland, Hewlett 
 Foundation, Asian Pacific Fund, City of Oakland Cultural Funding Program, 
 Comerica Bank, Five Arts Fund, and individual donors.\n\n\n\nOakland Asian 
 Cultural Center 388 Ninth Street, Ste 290 Oakland, CA 
 94607\n\n510-637-0455	www.oacc.cc\n\nFree and Open to the 
 Public\n\nSuggested Donations: $5 to $20\n\n\n\nOACC is supported by the 
 Akonadi Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, City of Oakland, Hewlett 
 Foundation, Asian Pacific Fund, City of Oakland Cultural Funding Program, 
 Comerica Bank, Five Arts Fund, and individual donors.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/04/16/18808529.php
SUMMARY:Riding with the Wind - A Book Talk with Monona Yin & Grant Din
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 Ninth Street, Ste 290 Oakland, CA 
 94607\n\n510-637-0455 www.oacc.cc\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/04/16/18808529.php
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