John Kuo Wei Tchen is a historian, curator, and writer. Professor Tchen is founding director of the at New York University, NYU. He co-founded the Museum of Chinese in America in 1979-80 where he continues to serve as senior historian. (2014) is a critical archival study of images, excerpts and essays on the history and contemporary impact of paranoia and xenophobia. He served as the senior historian for a New-York Historical Society exhibition on the impact of Chinese Exclusion Laws on the formation of the US. He is currently working on a two-hour 鈥淭he American Experience鈥� PBS documentary with Ric Burns and Lishin Yu on the 鈥淐hinese Exclusion Act.鈥� And he is also curating a series of exhibit, conferences, and performances retelling NYC-US history from the lens of scientific racism and eugenics hierarchies of 鈥渇it鈥� white Protestants versus the world鈥檚 鈥渦nfit鈥� others. This work will increasingly be presented via location-sensitive wearable tech.
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