CUNY FORUM Volume 1:1

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CUNY FORUM is the first journal in CUNY’s 166-year history focused on Asian American and Asian issues, edited by veteran editor and award-winning American Book award writer Russell C. Leong, the 2012-2013 CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor at Hunter College. According to Leong, the goal of the FORUM is to bring intellectual and cultural communities together in a new commons that takes readers well beyond typecasting Asian Americans as merely another American “minority brand.”

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Paper Sons

This panel discussion will discuss the history of “Paper Sons” and the impact this phenomenon had on family relationships within the Chinese community during the 20 th Century. The panel will also explore how the secretive “Paper Son” system has affected the cultural and political roles of Chinese Americans today. Paper sons were Chinese immigrants … Read more