Boston Asian American Festival: a platform for China–U.S. people-to-people exchange

On September 15, 2019, the 9th Asian American Festival, themed “Review, Gratitude, Fellowship, Outlook,” was held at a Weston campus of long local history. More than three hundred invited guests attended, including Chinese Americans from Greater Boston, local residents, and representatives of Indian, Korean, Vietnamese, and other communities. Consul Liu Aiming and Sun Qian of the Chinese Consulate General in New York, and Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn, spoke. Governor Charlie Baker and Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito sent letters.

AAAB Chair Edward Huang, Honorary Chair Klysler Yen, Executive President Phillip Pan, and Director Robert Wu also spoke. Co-organizers named in the article include Weston College, Boston International Media, Wan Jia Wang, the World Qipao Association Boston chapter, the American Asian Art Institute, and the North America Chinese Collectors Association.

The article is a contemporaneous press report. Quoted names of organizations are left as in the source. A recap of the same edition is on the 9th AADay page.

Source: China-US Innovation Times, September 17, 2019. Author: Youping Wen (溫友平).