Sunday, November 08 2:30pm – 4:00pm
MOCA
215 Centre Street New York, NY 10013

Born in New York City to Chinese immigrant parents in 1900, Poy Gum Lee and his family move to China in 1923. Armed with an architectural education from Pratt Institute, MIT, and Columbia University, he embarked on a professional career in China. Lee’s story is far from unique. Census and immigration statistics suggest that between 15 and 20 percent of all Chinese American citizens in the first half of the twentieth century left the United States for China, most of them under the assumption that they would never permanently return to the land of their birth. Charlotte Brooks, Chair of the Program in Asian and Asian American Studies at Baruch College, examines the important roles these Chinese American “returnees” played in shaping the Republic of China during this time of immense change in China.

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