John Kuo Wei Tchen

John Kuo Wei Tchen,[1] also known as Jack, is the co-founder of the Museum of Chinese in America[2] and the founding director of the A/P/A Studies Program and Institute at New York University. In 2018, Tchen was named the Inaugural Clement A. Price Chair in Public History and the Humanities at Rutgers University and will take over as the Institute’s new director.[3] He is the author of several books on Chinatown, including "New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882" and "Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown, 1895-1905."[4] He is the co-author of "Yellow Peril! An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear."[5] Jack was featured in the film 9-Man (documentary)[6] and is a frequently called-upon expert on Chinatown and Asian American topics.[7][8][9] Raised in Park Forest, IL

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  2. http://gallatin.nyu.edu/academics/faculty/jkt1.html
  3. "New Leadership Coming to the Clement A. Price Institute | Rutgers University - Newark". www.newark.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  4. "John Kuo Wei Tchen: Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
  5. "Verso". www.versobooks.com. Retrieved Jan 26, 2020.
  6. "9-Man | Webisode | Season 3 Episode 18 | America ReFramed". Retrieved Jan 26, 2020 – via www.pbs.org.
  7. "People - John Kuo Wei Tchen | WNYC | New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News". WNYC. Retrieved Jan 26, 2020.
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-07-09. Retrieved 2015-07-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. "NYU Exhibits 'Yellow Peril' Collection". NPR.org. Retrieved Jan 26, 2020.



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