Photography: Charles Leong in School Yearbooks

Charles Lai Leong

September 4, 1911, San Francisco, California – February 23, 1984, 

San Francisco, California

1930 The Manzanita

Watsonville Union High School, Watsonville, California

1931 The Manzanita

Watsonville Union High School, Watsonville, California

1936 La Torre

San Jose State College, San Jose, California

1937 La Torre

San Jose State College, San Jose, California

1938 La Torre

San Jose State College, San Jose, California

1939 Quad

Stanford University, Menlo Park, California

Further Reading and Listening

The Quill, November 1937, Chinese Student Is Editor of Daily at San Jose State

Daily Independent (Elizabeth City, North Carolina), April 6, 1937, Campus Editor Is Chinese

Editor and Publisher, November 16, 1940, Chinese Paper

Santa Cruz Sentinel-News (California), January 31, 1942, Well-Known S. F. Journalist Views Post-War Boom Here

Santa Cruz Sentinel-News, March 4, 1942, Santa Cruz County Cited in Popular Leong Article

Santa Cruz Sentinel-News, March 29, 1942, Father of S.F. Chinese Editor Dies

Santa Cruz Sentinel-News, April 18, 1942, Leong Idea Followed Up

Advertising Age, July 12, 1948, Resumes Publication

San Bernardino Sun (California), April 27, 1956, Won Leong Hop Will Fight for His Name

New Japanese American News / Shin Nichi-Bei (Los Angeles, California), April 24, 1957, photograph

East Wind, Pioneering Journalist: Charles Leong 梁普礼

Gum Saan Journal

Foreword for Leong Issue

Becoming “Other Peoples”: Charles L. Leong and Mollie J. Leong

Eight Immortal Flavors: Secrets of Cantonese Cookery

The Interview: Mollie J. Leong

Internet Archive, Charles Leong Interview on his life in San Francisco

The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority (2015) 

Russell C. Leong

Wikipedia, Russell C. Leong

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Eight Immortal Flavors

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(Updated February 16, 2022; Next post on Friday: Calligrapher Kenneth Joe)

Eight Immortal Flavors

Johnny Kan with Charles L. Leong
Howell-North Books, 1963
12th Printing, 1976

Jacket art by Jake Lee
Calligraphy by Kenneth Joe (credited in preface)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Front and Back Flaps

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cover

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Title Page

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Realm of the Kitchen God” by C.Y. Lee

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(next to last paragraph)

…A Chinese painter, Charles Leong, who, it was said, had studied at the Academy of Design, exhibited a portrait of Admiral Dewey and another of Li Hung Chang….

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