Photo courtesy of Chinese American, Documentary Photography, Activism Young Kwok (Corky) Lee (1947-2021) Yan Phou Lee was a writer and editor who wrote the first book published in English by an author of Asian descent in the US. His book, When I Was a Boy in China (1887), was an autoethnography of his childhood and …
Photo from the Boggs Center Chinese American, Cultural Theory, Philosophy, Activism Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) Dr. Grace Lee Boggs was a community builder, activist, and philosopher, whose actions and writings have been widely influential for organizers, academics, and artists invested in work and forging practices that transform society. Grace Chin Lee was given the name …
Images from The University of Texas at Austin Development Office, Dr. Lee-hsia Hsu Ting Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Information Studies Chinese American, Folklore, Narrative, Library Science Nai-tung Ting (1915-1989) Lee-hsia Hsu Ting (1923-2005) Dr. Nai-tung Ting and Dr. Lee-hsia Hsu Ting, were born and raised in China and their professional careers were based in the …
Photo from the cover of Social Change in Contemporary China: C.K. Yang and the Concept of Institutional Diffusion, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. Chinese American, Sociologist Ching-kun (CK) Yang (Yáng Qìngkūn) (1911-1999) Also known as Ch’ing-K’un Yang; Qingkun Yang, C. K. Yang was a sociologist whose work contributed to scholarship about religious life in China …
Photo from the Francis L. K. Hsu Facebook page Chinese American, Anthropology, Folklore Francis L. K. Hsu (Xu Hongguang) (1909-1999) Francis Hsu is generally known as an anthropologist. His psychological approach to folklore and folklife and his ideas about diasporic Chinese communities have not only expanded anthropological studies, but also influenced studies of Overseas Chinese, …
British Library digitised image from page 303 of “New York’s Chinatown. An historical presentation of its people and places … Fully illustrated from life” Beck, Louis J., 1898, Bohemia Publishing. British Library shelfmark: Digital Store 10413.d.17 Chinese American, Autoethnography Yan Phou Lee (1861-ca. 1938) Yan Phou Lee was a writer and editor who wrote the …