Susan AuCoin with Foo Dog Statue · Les AuCoin Collection

Title: Susan AuCoin with Foo Dog Statue
Description: A photograph of Susan AuCoin posing next to a stone Chinese guardian lion (also known as a lion dog, stone lion, foo dog, or fu dog) statue outside of a temple.

This photograph was taken during Les AuCoin's delegation to China in 1979. The delegation was the first American delegation to enter China after diplomatic relations were formally normalized in 1978 following decades of tension.

This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. AuCoin served in the Oregon House of Representatives (1971-1975) and in the United States House of Representatives from Oregon's 1st District (1975-1993).
Identifier: PUA_MS147_252
Creator: AuCoin, Les
Date Created: 1979
Date: 1979
Is Part Of: Les AuCoin Papers
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Subject: Legislators--United States
Spatial Coverage: China
Source: Pacific University Archives
Type: Still Image