By Romi Slowiak | MN Chinese Friendship Garden Society Board member | October 2022
Photo credit: MCFGS board members and attendees
If Mid-Autumn Festival is the penultimate family event in China, we here in Minnesota showed the world we also know how to build community guangxi under the full moon!
by Romi Slowiak | Minnesota Chinese Friendship Garden Society | September 2022
By Elaine Dunn | September 2022
It’s been long-time coming that someone who has played a critical connective-tissue role in the local Chinese community be recognized for his contribution. On Sept. 9, Greg Hugh, co-founder and publisher of China Insight, received the Outstanding Service Award at the Council on Asia Pacific Minnesotans Dinner held at the Heritage Center in Brooklyn Center.
By Elaine Dunn
It’s been long-time coming that someone who has played a critical connective-tissue role in the local Chinese community be recognized for his contribution. On Sept. 9, Greg Hugh, co-founder and publisher of China Insight, received the Outstanding Service Award at the Council on Asia Pacific Minnesotans Dinner held at the Heritage Center in Brooklyn Center.
The award recognizes someone from the community who has “made significant contributions to the Asian Pacific Minnesotan community.”
In his acceptance speech, Hugh said, “The U.S.-China relationship is currently one of the most complex bilateral relationship for the United States. Over the last 30 years, Sino-American relations have undergone an impressive transformation from animosity and conflict to candid dialogue and constructive cooperation … Although there is not too much we can do to change whatever trajectory is in motion, the Chinese community needs to become more proactive and become more involved as citizens by getting involved in politics, charitable giving and other activities to shatter the “model minority” label and work together instead as factions within their own communities. We need to get young people involved in organizations of all kinds that can benefit the API communities.”
ChinaInsight publisher Greg Hugh has been named a winner of the Outstanding Service Award by the Council on Asian PAcific Minnesotans. The award will be presented at the Asian Pacific Leadership Awards Dinner on Sept. 9 at the Earle Brown Heritage Center. in Brooklyn Center. Details on p.5 of current issue.
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