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John Kuo Wei Tchen

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John Kuo Wei Tchen,[1] also known as Jack, is a historian of Chinese American history and the Inaugural Clement A. Price Chair in Public History and Humanities at Rutgers University.[2]

Biography

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Tchen received his B.A. at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1973. He did his M.A. at New York University in 1987 and finished his Ph.D. at NYU in 1992.[3] He was the founding director of the A/P/A Studies Program and Institute at New York University. In 1979–1980, Tchen co-founded the Museum of Chinese in America and continues to serve as its senior advisor.[4] In 2018, Tchen was named the Inaugural Clement A. Price Chair in Public History and the Humanities at Rutgers University and became Director of the Clement Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture & the Modern Experience.[5]

Tchen received several awards during his academic career: the Charles S. Frankel Prize from the National Endowment for the Humanities(1991),[6] and MLK Humanitarian Award from NYU (2012).[7] His monograph, New York Before Chinatown, was the winner of the History/Social Science Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies in 2001.[8]

Tchen was featured in the film 9-Man (documentary)[9] and is a frequently called-upon expert on Chinatown and Asian American topics.[10][11][12]

Works

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  • Tchen, John Kuo Wei and Dylan Yeats (2014). Yellow Peril! An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear. New York: Verso.ISBN 9781781681237
  • Tchen, John Kuo Wei (1999). New York Before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801867941
  • Genthe, Arnold and John Kuo Wei Tchen (1984). Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 9780486140698

References

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  1. ^ "Department of Social and Cultural Analysis". as.nyu.edu. Retrieved Jan 26, 2020.
  2. ^ "John Kuo Wei Tchen". Rutgers SASN. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  3. ^ "Jack Tchen > Faculty > People > NYU Gallatin". 2019-02-08. Archived from the original on 2019-02-08. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  4. ^ "Jack Tchen". The Center for the Humanities. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  5. ^ "New Leadership Coming to the Clement A. Price Institute | Rutgers University - Newark". www.newark.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  6. ^ "NEH Timeline". The National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  7. ^ "2012 Award Recipient". New York University. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Award Winners | Association for Asian American Studies". Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  9. ^ "9-Man | Webisode | Season 3 Episode 18 | America ReFramed". Retrieved Jan 26, 2020 – via www.pbs.org.
  10. ^ "People - John Kuo Wei Tchen | WNYC | New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News". WNYC. Retrieved Jan 26, 2020.
  11. ^ "John Kuo Wei Tchen | the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History". Archived from the original on 2015-07-09. Retrieved 2015-07-08.
  12. ^ "NYU Exhibits 'Yellow Peril' Collection". NPR.org. Retrieved Jan 26, 2020.
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