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Wendy Cheng

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What Mourning Looks Like in Monterey Park

In the wake of a mass shooting on Lunar New Year Eve, an essay about the multiethnic and multiracial histories…

CNFPW, Public Writing, SGV

24 Best Gifts for Frequent Travelers

A People’s Guide to Los Angeles made the New York Times/Wirecutter’s 2020 list of best gifts for travelers. When we…

Media, People's Guide, People's Guide to LA

Against Empire: Taiwan, American Studies, and the Archipelagic

Chih-ming Wang and I coedited a timely forum, “Against Empire: Taiwan, American Studies, and the Archipelagic,” published in the current issue of…

blog, Taiwanese/American

The Bold and Unruly Legacy of Chen Wen-Chen

July 2, 2021 Article published in New Bloom Magazine IT WAS THE summer of 1975. The two young Taiwanese men, Rocky…

CNFPW, Public Writing, Taiwanese/American

The Global, Imperial, and Capitalist Roots of ‘Anti-Asian Hate’

Published June 2021 in episteme issue 6: in the wake of the atlanta shooting: non/citizen perspectives on anti-asian racism and…

CNFPW, Public Writing

In Rancho Santa Fe, We Were Orientals

June 10, 2021. Creative nonfiction essay published in Boom California. In 1986, when I was nine and my brother was…

CNFPW, Creative Writing

The Instant You Entered the Black Hole

June 2021 Creative nonfiction essay published in The Cincinnati Review Teh-chang came home a couple of days after the surgery,…

CNFPW, Creative Writing

Descanso Gardens honors Japanese Americans during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Good Day LA interviewed me, Japanese American family members, and Descanso Gardens staff about my research and our collective efforts…

blog, Japanese American, Landscapes of Plunder, Media

Past Due: LA Civic Memory Working Group Report and Recommendations

“We understand L.A. in the present as a multicultural city, but the dominant narrative of L.A. history is still a…

blog

Taiwanese/American Migration and Cold War Politics

This book project will be the first monograph on the political lives of Taiwanese migrants who came to the United…

Cold War, Current Projects, Taiwanese/American

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