Fay Chiang (2003 – 2004)
It’s never been about the money. It’s never even been about a career. This was all to my mother’s dismay when I tried to explain to her why it was important to build an Asian American cultural...
View ArticleHelen Zia (2004 – 2005)
Helen Zia is the author of Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People, (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2000), which was a finalist for the prestigious 2000 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize....
View ArticleYun Gee Papers (MSS 144)
Yun Gee, born near Canton, China in 1906, was a modernist painter of some acclaim. At the age of 15, he arrived in San Francisco and enrolled in the San Francisco Art Institute. He later studied at the...
View ArticleHanging on Union Square
The Hanging on Union Square: A celebration of the life and work of H.T. Tsiang Thursday March 28, 2013
View ArticleA Conversation with Maxine Hong Kingston
The legendary Maxine Hong Kingston joined us for an intimate conversation, moderated by Crystal Parikh (Department of English and Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU), about her oeuvre....
View ArticleMOCATALKS: Unearthing the Story World of Phillip Chen
Visual artist Phillip Chen creates relief etchings inspired by his family stories. One print unearths his great grandfather’s experience as a gold miner in California during the Gold Rush in the 1860s....
View ArticleMOCATALKS: Archivist of Chinese Americana
Presented by the Museum of Chinese in America. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Over the years, critic (and packrat) Hua Hsu has been thinking about the relationship between...
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