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Our Stories- In Search of a Homeland, the Story of a Pioneer Chinese Woman, Lai Ngan In-Person
Historian Li Yang shares the story of a remarkable immigrant woman and her successful struggle to survive in the American Southwest at the turn of the 20th Century. Lai Ngan was smuggled into America at a tender age in the 1870s and sold into bondage. While still a teenager, she was married off to a Chinese man who was 35 years her senior. She first journeyed from San Francisco to Sonora, Mexico, at the height of anti-Chinese sentiment in the U.S. Later, the family journeyed back to the U.S. on the eve of Mexican Revolution when anti-Chinese feelings there were brewing. They finally settled down in Tucson, Arizona, where the family prospered. Program in partnership with the Arizona Humanities.
- Date:
- Saturday, May 6, 2017
- Time:
- 10:30am - 12:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Arizona Time (change)
- Location:
- Copper Room South
- Library:
- Downtown
- Categories:
- * Adults Art, Culture, Film & Music