Alan Chin - South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/rss/500913/feed Alan Chin was born and raised in New York City’s Chinatown. Since 1996, he has worked in China, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Central Asia, and Ukraine, as well as extensively in the United States. He is a contributing photographer to The New York Times and many other publications, an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and his work is in the collections of the Museum Of Modern Art and the Detroit Institute of Art. The New York Times... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png Alan Chin - South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com Standing on the corner of Bayard and Mulberry streets in New York’s Chinatown on March 8, Nancy Yao Maasbach, president of the Museum of Chinese in America, and Yue Ma, Moca’s director of collections and research, are dressed head to toe in white Tyvek hazmat suits, with N95 masks covering their faces. Ma and Yao Maasbach are protecting themselves from mould, asbestos and other toxins that could have been released by the massive fire that consumed the 19th century former public school housing... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3089568/how-new-yorks-museum-chinese-america-tells?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3089568/how-new-yorks-museum-chinese-america-tells?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Jun 2020 21:00:18 +0000 How New York’s Museum of Chinese in America tells ‘the history of people excluded’ Connie Young Yu has put forward her arguments many times. Having been invited by the United States’ National Park Service to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the inaugur­ation of the First Transcontinen­tal Railroad, the writer and historian stands on stage in Promontory Summit, Utah, before 20,000 people, and opens the commemor­a­tions: “My great-grandfather, Lee Wong Sang, was one of the thousands of unsung heroes, building the railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains, laying tracks... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3011323/chinese-who-built-americas-transcontinental?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3011323/chinese-who-built-americas-transcontinental?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 May 2019 21:00:06 +0000 The Chinese who built America’s Transcontinental railroad are recognised, at last