In this interview conducted by Gabrielle Hrung, Shannon Yip elaborated further on her experiences with the Chinese Folk Dance Association.

In this conversation, the self-published author shares his life immersion with the Chinese community of San Francisco, his friendship with H. Mark Lai, and gems about the “Chinese Marxist Left.”

1965 — the calm and complacent facade of the Chinatown community was forever blown open through no-nonsense, jaw-dropping exposures about the Chinatown community. The culprit was one George Woo, a spokesperson for the Wah Ching, a Chinatown street organization composed primarily of disaffected Hong Kong immigrants.

Shannon Yip — passionate practitioner of Chinese folk dance — shares her tenure as a retired Oakland CA, educator and advocate for bilingual/bicultural education and surmounting policy and cultural challenges.

In this Part 2 interview, Shannon Yip dives into her journey as a passionate practitioner, dancer, and promoter of Chinese folk dance through the Chinese Folk Dance Association of San Francisco. As the program director, she helped to expose dance students to other cultural communities while promoting Chinese cultural diversity.

Richard Aston’s Views From Gold Mountain is four books in one sharing one relentless thread — the monumental and historical offenses suffered by the Chinese diaspora. Most saliently, it posits an in-depth look at some key historical figures of the Chinese Marxist Left in the U.S.