John Kuo Wei Tchen Explained

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

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

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

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. as.nyu.edu. Jan 26, 2020.
2. Web site: John Kuo Wei Tchen. 2021-07-27. Rutgers SASN. en.
3. Web site: 2019-02-08. Jack Tchen > Faculty > People > NYU Gallatin. 2021-07-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20190208144153/http://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/jkt1.html . 2019-02-08 .
4. Web site: Jack Tchen. 2021-07-27. The Center for the Humanities. en-US.
5. Web site: New Leadership Coming to the Clement A. Price Institute Rutgers University - Newark. 2018-05-12. www.newark.rutgers.edu. en.
6. Web site: NEH Timeline. 2021-07-27. The National Endowment for the Humanities. en.
7. Web site: 2012 Award Recipient. 27 July 2021. New York University.
8. Web site: Award Winners Association for Asian American Studies. 2021-07-27. en-US.
9. Web site: 9-Man | Webisode | Season 3 Episode 18 | America ReFramed. www.pbs.org. Jan 26, 2020.
10. Web site: People - John Kuo Wei Tchen | WNYC | New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News. WNYC. Jan 26, 2020.
11. Web site: John Kuo Wei Tchen | the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150709230758/https://www.gilderlehrman.org/category/creator/john-kuo-wei-tchen. 2015-07-09. 2015-07-08.
12. Web site: NYU Exhibits 'Yellow Peril' Collection. NPR.org. Jan 26, 2020.