EXCLUSIVE: William Mundell’s Neurosphere Entertainment has acquired film and TV rights to The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America, historian Mae Ngai‘s work of ...

Because they were a relatively small number of the earliest Chinese to come to America - the vast majority were poor fortune seekers and laborers starting with the Gold Rush - not much is known about ...

Join Mae Ngai and Aziz Rana as they read from their latest books and discuss family lives and legal battles that offer insight into the Chinese-American experience. The Lucky Ones, the latest book by ...

Columbia University history professor Mae Ngai is on a mission to free the Chinese from slavery. In particular she wants to liberate most 19th century Chinese emigrants from the label “coolies”. While ...

Mae Ngai is the author of The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (WW Norton, forthcoming). Vilifying China Puts a Bull’s-Eye on the Backs of Asian Americans Vilifying China Puts a ...

Editor’s Note: Mae Ngai teaches history at Columbia University and is the author of “Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America.” The opinions expressed in this commentary ...

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