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John Kuo Wei Tchen
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Associate Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies, Social and Cultural Analysis; Director, Asian/Pacific/American Studies
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Ph.D., 1992
New York University; M.A. 1987
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1973

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Research Interests:

Cross-cultural and community studies; New York City history; Asians in the Americas; race, colonialism, and museums; dialogic theory; and radical pedagogy

Selected Works:

New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the shaping of American culture, 1776-1882 (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1999)

Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's old Chinatown, ed. (New York: Dover, 1984)

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