Boston Book Festival: Mae Ngai with The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics

About this event American Ancestors/NEHGS and Boston Public Library in partnership with the Boston Book Festival present author and Columbia University Professor Mae Ngai and her latest work. “The Chinese Question” looks at how the Chinese diaspora, particularly migration to the world’s goldfields, reshaped the nineteenth-century world. In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold … Read more

Mae Ngai — The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics

Join us in partnership with American Ancestors/NEHGS, the Boston Book Festival, and the GBH Forum Network for an online conversation with Mae Ngai, award-winning author of Impossible Subjects and The Lucky Ones, about her new book, The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics. Jia Lynn Yang, New York Times National Editor and author of the award-winning One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle … Read more