Gum Saan to Golden Spike is a student-produced comic novella. Premiered September 30, 2023, 11:00am at Rainier Arts Center, Seattle, WA.
GUM SAAN TO GOLDEN SPIKE
Premiered September 30, 2023, 11:00am at Rainier Arts Center, Seattle, WA.
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Premiered September 30, 2023, 11:00am at Rainier Arts Center, Seattle, WA.
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Own a copy today! Available at the Wing Luke Museum and online at OCA book store.
Gum Saan to Golden Spike is the first book in the trilogy, “Passage Through Seattle: Wong Family Saga, 1842-2023,” that includes the sequel In a Yellow Tone: Seattle’s Chinatown International District During WWII (2021), and KingDOOM: How Asian American Protests Saved Seattle’s Chinatown International District, 1972-2023 (in progress). GS2 originally began as a film created in honor of Golden Spike Day in 2019, then recreated as a comic novella to better preserve and communicate the history of early Chinese Americans. Through the story of Wong Ho Ping and his descendants, the comic novella retells the story of why the Southern Chinese (Taishanese and Cantonese) departed South China for the United States, built the railroad, and fought for labor rights and against economic discrimination. The original student film is attached below.
Gum Saan to Golden Spike is the first book in the trilogy, “Passage Through Seattle: Wong Family Saga, 1842-2023,” that includes the sequel In a Yellow Tone: Seattle’s Chinatown International District During WWII (2021), and KingDOOM: How Asian American Protests Saved Seattle’s Chinatown International District, 1972-2023 (in progress). GS2 originally began as a film created in honor of Golden Spike Day in 2019, then recreated as a comic novella to better preserve and communicate the history of early Chinese Americans. Through the story of Wong Ho Ping and his descendants, the comic novella retells the story of why the Southern Chinese (Taishanese and Cantonese) departed South China for the United States, built the railroad, and fought for labor rights and against economic discrimination. The original student film is attached below.
GS2 Committee & Asian American Studies 405, 2022-23, University of Washington, Seattle
Editor: Han Eckelberg
Designers: Dani Canaleta, Yu Xiang Che, Dylan Hartano, Brooklyn Hose, Hana Natsuhara, Arthur Sugiyama, Heidi Tandiono, Iris Hamilton, Jax Wokas, Justin Wong
Contributors: Maeson Dewey, Wen Eckelberg, Estephany Gonzalez, Helena Goos, Frederick Lu, Milo Nguyen, Way Sum, Peter Wong, Felix Ye
PROGRAM:
0:00 - Introduction by Kenzie Chang and Cammie Wei
1:49 - Mak Fai Kung Fu Dragon & Lion Dance Association Performance
4:53 - Gum Saan to Golden Spike Conception
5:42 - Dr. Connie So
16:30 - Finding Roots: The Importance of Asian American Studies by Dani Canaleta
19:55 - Creative Director Han Eckelberg
20:52 - Acknowledgements & Program Outline
23:34 - Han's Role for GS2
26:30 - Act 1
28:34 - Heidi Tandiono on Act 1
31:16 - Act 2
33:14 - Iris Hamilton on Act 2
37:07 - Act 3
38:30 - Heidi Tandiono on Act 3
39:55 - Act 4
41:32 - Dylan Hartano on Act 4
45:55 - Historical Inserts & Poems, Part 1
46:31 - Hana Natsuhara on Poems
48:15 - Act 5, 6, & 7
51:41 - Brooklyn Hose on Act 5, 6, & 7
53:55 - Act 8
56:21 - Act 9
58:16 - Brooklyn Hose on Act 9
1:00:00 - Historical Inserts & Poems, Part 2
1:00:09 - Hana Natsuhara on Inserts
1:02:28 - Closing Remarks by Han
1:04:36 - "Tian Mi Mi" by Dylan Hartano
1:10:30 - Q&A with the GS2 Committee
1:37:44 - Event Conclusion
Own a copy today! Available at the Wing Luke Museum and online at OCA book store.
I have a lot to say about this project; all the hours spent editing, the countless nights storyboarding, the time arranging speech bubbles, narration boxes, adding panel translations, to then rewriting and refining the script; I am very glad it is done! I am super proud of my team, especially the artist because they are the very reason I continued to do another comic novella after In a Yellow Tone. I want everyone to see what our amazing student artists can do as they utilize their creativity for advocacy storytelling.