Houston Asian American Archives oral history interviews and related materials

The Chao Center for Asian Studies is a research institute attached to an undergraduate major at Rice University. The Center supports a model of Asian Studies that looks carefully and critically at the complex ways people in ‘Asia’ have been involved with one another and with the rest of the world, not only today, but also in the past. Toward these ends, they work closely with peer organizations in inter-Asia, indeed, in some cases with those whom they study, and in every case collaborating with scholars who pursue similar questions as they do.

The Chao Center for Asian Studies builds on the core initiatives outlined in Rice University President David Leebron’s “Vision for the Second Century.” These are: (1) visibly and substantially increasing our commitment to our research mission and raising our research and scholarship profile; (2) aggressively fostering collaborative relationships with other institutions to leverage our resources; (3) becoming an international university, with a more significant orientation toward Asia and Latin America than now characterizes our commitments.

(This information was excerpted from the Chao Center for Asian Studies website http://chaocenter.rice.edu/about-the-center.aspx on December 1, 2010.)