Toishan Diaspora in the Americas

The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) invites you to a captivating conversation with artist and photographer Pok Chi Lau. For more than five decades, Lau has traced the journeys of the Toishan/Taishan diaspora from the Pearl River Delta to Hong Kong and across the Americas. Grounded in his own family’s migrations dating back to the mid 19th century, his camera has documented kitchens, back rooms, storefronts, clubhouses, home altars, and streetscapes, spaces where language, labor, faith, and memory take root far from home.