Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
A film that chronicled the six-year struggle to free Chol Soo Lee, a Korean American immigrant wrongfully convicted for the 1973 murder of Yip Tee Tak in San Francisco Chinatown, has won an Emmy for best historical documentary.
The presentation will analyze the ongoing debate in Japan over how the past should be remembered, and how this impacts on issues of national identity. Prof. Weiner is speaking on a Diversity Grant obtained by Prof. Keming Liu (Medgar Evers College, CUNY) in part to celebrate the 80th birthday of Prof. Betty Lee Sung.