A Book Talk on Belonging, and the Asian American Experience
About this Event
Join us for a compelling evening with Michael Luo, executive editor of The New Yorker and acclaimed author of Strangers in the Land: The Struggle for Belonging in America, as he explores the complex and often overlooked history of Chinese exclusion and the Asian American experience in the United States.
In celebration of the release of Michael Luo’s widely praised new book, Strangers in the Land, this timely conversation will delve into the roots of anti-Asian sentiment, the legacy of exclusion, and the ongoing struggle for belonging in America. Luo will shed light on untold histories, challenge enduring stereotypes, and invite us to reexamine what it means to be American in a multiracial democracy today.
📚 Books will be available for purchase on site. Each purchase includes a book signing with Michael Luo.
🍷 Wine and light refreshments will be served.
This program will be broadcast live on our channel.
This program is in partnership with The Serica Initiative.
Speaker
Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics, religion, and Asian American issues. Before joining the magazine in 2016, he spent thirteen years at The New York Times as a national correspondent, metro reporter, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is a second-generation Chinese American and lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
Moderator
Susan Yuqing Feng joined China Institute in America as Director of Programs in October of 2023. Before joining China Institute in America, Susan was the Editor in Chief of Bitpush News, a leading block chain media based in New York and a columnist for the Financial Times Chinese Edition.
Throughout her journalism career, Susan conducted interviews with a multitude of world economic and political leaders, including Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Alan Greenspan, Paul Volker, President Clinton, Zbigniew Brzeziński, Michael Bloomberg, Thomas Friedman, and many more. Susan has also directed the documentary series “World Movers” which was released in March 2018. It illustrated the emerging new world order 70 years after WWII, shedding light on what has changed the U.S. and the world and the forces affecting everyone. It focused on the relationships between technology and globalization, the impact on immigration, and the future of U.S.-China relations.
Susan graduated from Columbia University and got her MA in International Affairs.
About the Book
Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America is an epic history of exclusion, belonging, and the complications of America’s multiracial democracy. Told in the tradition of The Warmth of Other Suns, with the style and sweep of a New Yorker writer, this is a cinematic, character-driven, deeply researched story of race in America that places Chinese American history alongside other events that took place during a crucial period of formation for the country after the Civil War, when visions of liberty and equality foundered. This is not just the story of the Chinese in America; it’s the story of any number of immigrant groups who have been treated as strangers. It’s the story of our diverse democracy. It’s the story of us. Asian American history is American history.
“Remarkable. . . [Michael Luo] has taken a subject that most people of Chinese descent, like me, are aware of in a vaguely ominous way and turned it into a terrifying yet compelling narrative.” —Howard Chua-Eoan, Bloomberg
“Tracing echoes of today’s debates around immigration and exclusion to the past, Luo’s vividly told, carefully researched, and deeply compassionate book is an essential contribution to the continually unfolding story of the Chinese in America.”— Hua Hsu, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Stay True
“Impressively researched and beautifully told, Strangers in the Land offers a new and much-needed history of a people and community that have always been central to the American story.”— Erika Lee, Bae Family Professor of History, Harvard University, and author of The Making of Asian America: A History
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
China Institute in America, 100 Washington Street, New York, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 12.00
