Tunney F. Lee Lecture: Forever Struggle Boston's Chinatown, 1880-2018
by Chinese Historical Society of NE
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Chinatown
has a long history in Boston. Though little documented, it represents the
city’s most sustained neighborhood effort to survive during eras of hostility
and urban transformation. It has been wounded and transformed, slowly ceding
ground; at the same time, its residents and organizations have gained a more
prominent voice over their community’s fate.
In writing about Boston Chinatown’s long
history, Michael Liu, a lifelong activist and scholar of the community, charts
its journey and efforts for survival—from its emergence during a time of
immigration and deep xenophobia to the highway construction and urban renewal
projects that threatened the neighborhood after World War II to its more recent
efforts to keep commercial developers at bay. At the ground level, Liu depicts
its people, organizations, internal battles, and varied and complex strategies
against land-taking by outside institutions and public authorities. The
documented courage, resilience, and ingenuity of this low-income immigrant
neighborhood of color have earned it a place amongst our urban narratives.
Chinatown has much to teach us about neighborhood agency, the power of
organizing, and the prospects of such neighborhoods in rapidly growing and
changing cities.
Michael
Liu is a native of Boston Chinatown. After graduating from college, he has been
active on social justice and community issues especially concerning Boston
Chinatown. He joined and helped create several community social justice groups.
In the 1990’s, he was executive director of the Asian American Resource
Workshop.
Michael is a graduate of Swarthmore College
and completed graduate studies in engineering at Northeastern and University of
Massachusetts Amherst before receiving his Ph.D. in Public Policy at University
of Massachusetts Boston. Since then, he has worked as a researcher at the
Institute for Asian American Studies at UMB. He co-authored an interpretive
history of Asian American organizing, The Snake Dance of Asian American
Activism.
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