Famous, forgotten, well-known, and obscure visual artists of Chinese descent in the United States
Monday, December 7, 2015
Exhibitors Herald-World, January–March 1929
January 5, 1929
Page 28, column 1: James Wong Howe (above)
January 26, 1929
Page 40, column 3: Joe Wong
January 26, 1929
Page 24, top right photograph: Bo Ling in
Let’s Make Whoopee (above)
February 9, 1929
Page 60, column 1: Joe Wong
February 16, 1929
Page 30, top left photograph: Anna May Wong (above)
February 23, 1929
Page 31, top left photograph: Chinese women twins in Twin Revue which was retitled Climbing the Golden Stairs
March 2, 1929
Page 38, column 1: Anna May Wong in Piccadilly
March 23, 1929
Page 25, column 1: Anna May Wong in Piccadilly
March 30, 1929
Page 39, column 1: Anna May Wong in Piccadilly
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015
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Friday, October 2, 2015
Chinese Theater, New York City, 1909
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June 1909
The Drama in Chinatown
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The Drama in Chinatown
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Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Yook Yee Wong / Huang Yuyu (黄玉瑜) Exhibition
Guangzhou, China
September 2–15, 2015
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Professor Peng Changxin, Exhibition Curator |
Exhibition Brochure
Exhibition Panels
Wong’s village in Kaiping, China |
Wong’s Section 6 documents and school teacher, Ida K. Greenlee |
Passenger documents and immigration interview transcript |
Identification paper and correspondence with an immigration officer |
World War I draft card and service at Camp Eustis, Virginia |
Student at Tufts College (1920–1921) and MIT (1923–1925) |
Wong helped the Chinatown Boy Scouts; MIT student information |
Junior member of the American Institute of Architects (1925–1929); Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott drafting assignment sheets with Wong’s initials, YYW |
Yi Min Lin, an engineering student, met Wong in Boston. |
Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Nanjing, China |
Wong’s drawings for Nanjing |
Wong and Shinn-hong Howard Jee’s drawings for the capital of Nanjing |
Moon Palace Dormitory |
Moon Palace Dormitory |
Moon Palace Dormitory |
Model of Moon Palace Dormmitory |
Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital |
Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital |
Hua An Hotel |
Hua An Hotel |
Hua An Hotel |
Wong’s home in Guangzhou |
Article by Wong |
Article by Wong |
Wong’s wife, Lee Sue Doy |
Wong’s family and friends |
Yunnan, China |
Liao Shoubai, 104 years old, met Wong in Baoshan. |
The exhibition was at the Kaiping Art Museum from September 29 to October 20, 2015.
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