Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Please join APA VOICE, AAARI, and other partners for a candidate forum for New York City Council District 1, representing neighborhoods including Chinatown, the Lower East Side, Two Bridges, NoHo, SoHo, and Financial Distinct.
Join us for a screening and discussion of the short documentary Dear Corky, with director Curtis Chin. For over fifty years, New York native Corky Lee photographed his hometown’s Chinatown, and Asian American communities around the country.
Panel speakers will share personal stories about growing up with sewing mothers and grandmothers during the decades when practically every Chinese immigrant family in New York City included garment factory workers – the hard work and long hours, the social environment and friendships, union benefits and programs, and the strength, solidarity and activism of the immigrant women workers. Speakers will discuss how they teach this history and legacy to new generations.
Join Third World Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY for an online discussion of the PBS documentary, Plague at the Golden Gate, with producer/director, Li-Shin Yu, including the making of this film, its significance now, and her own path from editing to leading a film.
Please join APA VOICE, the Asian American / Asian Research Institute, and other partners for a candidate forum for the newly created New York Congressional District 10 representing neighborhoods including Chinatown, the Lower East Side, and Sunset Park.
Chinatown Heroes was published in Chinese in 2020 and recently translated into an English edition in 2021. This book describes a selection of “community heroes,” from the unique viewpoint of Wai Wah Chan, a Chinese community newspaper journalist. It is a precious photo album of more than 200 images of people and places, leaders and community groups in Manhattan’s Chinatown from the 1990s taken by the author during her years as a community reporter. There are also recent photographs by Philip Wu taken during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic showing the stark contrast between old and new, busy and deserted.