Lia Chang: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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| name = Lia Chang

| image = Lia Chang in NY 2014.jpg

| caption = Lia Chang in [[Manhattan]]New York in 2014.

| birth_date ={{birth date and age|1963|09|29}}

| birth_place = [[San Francisco]], [[California]], U.S.

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'''Lia Chang''' (born September 29, 1963) is an American actress, journalist, and photographer.<ref name=Getting>[http://www.jademagazine.com/106me_chang.html "Getting Personal with Lia Chang and her Asian American Arts World"], ''Jade Magazine'', March–April 2014.</ref> After beginning her career modeling and acting in New York and on tour, Chang added parallel careers as a portrait and botanical photographer and journalist.

Chang's photographs have been exhibited in the United States and elsewhere and published in various media. In 2010, the "Lia Chang Theater Photography and Other Works Portfolio" was established in the Asian Pacific American Performing Arts Collection housed in the [[Library of Congress]]. She has written as a syndicated columnist and as a writer and editor for AsianConnections.com, is a writer for AsAmNews.com and maintains a blog about the arts, culture, style, and [[Asian American]] issues.

==Early life==

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;Selected filmography

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| 1985 || ''[[The Last Dragon]] ''|| ''Girl Student''

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She was a syndicated columnist for KYODO News, writing about arts and entertainment in her "What's Hot in New York" column from 1995–2004.<ref name=ChangAbout/> In 1997 ''Avenue Asia'' magazine named Chang as one of the "One Hundred Most Influential Asian Americans".<ref name=Yellowbridge/> In 2000, she received an [[Organization of Chinese Americans]] Chinese American Journalist Award for an article entitled "An Active Vision", which detailed the life of her mother, Beverly Umehara, a secretary and mother of four, who became a labor activist and president of the national executive board of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance.<ref name=JDANG/> In 2001, she received the [[Asian American Journalists Association]] 2001 National Award for New Media for an article she wrote about her grandmother’s harrowing journey through the Angel Island Immigration Station.<ref name=Lens/>

Chang is an editor and writer for AsianConnections.com,<ref>Joe Kai, Suzanne. [http://www.asianconnections.com/about-us "About us"], AsianConnections.com, accessed August 5, 2015; [http://v1.asianconnections.com/life/features/2002/08/30/recovering.chinatown/ "Documenting a Community on the Brink, New York Chinatown Post-September 11"], AsianConnections.com, 2002, accessed July 31, 2015</ref> Arts and Entertainment reporter for AsAmNews.com<ref>[http://www.asamnews.com/tag/lia-chang/ "Posts by Tag: Lia Chang"], AsAmNews.com, accessed August 8, 2015</ref> and an arts reviewer for ''All Digitocracy''.<ref>Chang, Lia. [http://alldigitocracy.org/inside-china-through-the-looking-glass-at-the-met-part-2/ "Inside ''China: Through the Looking Glass'' at The Met, Part 2"], ''All Digitocracy'', May 26, 2015</ref> She maintains a blog about the arts, culture, style, and Asian American issues, ''Backstage Pass with Lia Chang''.<ref>Chang, Lia. [https://liachang.wordpress.com/lia-chang-articles-archive/ "Articles by Lia Chang Archive"], ''Backstage Pass with Lia Chang'', accessed August 5, 2015</ref>

==Awards and honors==

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* 2011: "Portraits of New York Chinatown After 9/11" in the Asian Division Reading Room, Library of Congress, Washington DC<ref>Lapid, Robin. [http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/blog/archive/2011/09/remembering-911-events-and-resource-guide "Remembering 9/11: An Events and Resource Guide"], ''hyphenmagazine.com'', San Francisco, September 9, 2011</ref>

* 2012: "In Rehearsal" in the Asian Division Reading Room of the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

==See also==

* [[Chinese people in New York City]]

* [[New Yorkers in journalism]]

==References==

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==Sources==

{{cite book |title= Chinese Americans: The Immigrant Experience by [[Peter Kwong (academic)|Peter Kwong]] and Dusanka Miscevic |year=2000 |isbn= 978-0-88363-128-7|last1=Mišṙevir̈ |first1=Duanka Duana |last2=Miscevic |first2=Dusanka |last3=Kwong |first3=Peter }}

*{{cite book|last=Lee|first=Joann Faung Jean|title=Asian American Actors: Oral Histories from Stage, Screen, and Television|publisher=McFarland|year=2000|isbn=0786407301|chapter=Aspiring Actors|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/asianamericanact00leej}}

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[[Category:American women photographers]]

[[Category:Photographers from San Francisco]]

[[Category:21st-century American women]]