Book Talk with Mae M. Ngai

11 December 2023

6.00pm – 8.30pm AEDT

Metcalfe Auditorium, State Library of New South Wales

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How did Chinese migration to the goldfields of California, Australia and South Africa both upend the global economy and forge modern conceptions of race?

Please come along to hear visiting Columbia professors Mae M. Ngai and Rebecca Kobrin in conversation about Mae M. Ngai's groundbreaking new book The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics.

The book will be available for sale and Mae M. Ngai will be signing on the night.

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Speakers

Mae M. Ngai

Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History

Mae M. Ngai is Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University.

Rebecca Kobrin

Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History

Rebecca Kobrin is Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History at Columbia University.

Book Talk with Mae M. Ngai

Mae M. Ngai

Rebecca Kobrin

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