John Kuo Wei Tchen

Biographic Data

ID100720
NAMEJohn Kuo Wei Tchen
GIVEN NAMESJohn Kuo Wei
FAMILY NAMETchen
SIGNATURETCHEN J K W
AFFILIATIONSNew York University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX1

  • The Poetics and Politics of Ron Grele’s Conversations

    Open AccessJohn Kuo Wei TchenARTICLEThe Oral History Review2019

    This article is related to:Ron Grele’s Lifelong Passion for Conversational NarrativeCommentRonald J. Grele: History, Politics, and StoriesGuest Editors’ Introduction: The Contributions of Ronald J. Grele to Oral HistoryIn Conversation with Ron GreleQuestioning Historians: Oral History as a Historiographic and Political ActRonald J. Grele: Selected BibliographyCommentGuest Editors’ Introduction: The Contributions of Ronald J. Grele to Oral History…

  • Jack G. Shaheen 1935–2017

    Open AccessJohn Kuo Wei TchenARTICLEReview of Middle East Studies2018

    Pioneering author and media critic, Dr. Jack Shaheen devoted his life to identifying and contesting damaging stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims in American media and pop culture. Arabs and Muslims were offered up as cartoon caricatures—dagger wielding, evil, ridiculous, hypersexualized, inhumane and incompetent “others.” Dr. Shaheen quickly recognized their shared genealogy to the portrayals of other racialized groups including Jews, Native America…

  • Racially Writing the Republic

    Open AccessJohn Kuo Wei Tchen, Laura Janara et al.BOOKRacially Writing the Republic2009

  • Chinatown Dreams

    John Kuo Wei TchenARTICLEThe Public Historian2005

  • New York before Chinatown

    John Kuo Wei TchenBOOKNew York before Chinatown2001

    "From George Washington's desire (in the heat of the Revolutionary War) for a proper set of Chinese porcelains for afternoon tea, to the lives of Chinese-Irish couples in the 1830s, to the commercial success of Chang and Eng (the "Siamese Twins"), to rising fears of "heathen Chinee," New York before Chinatown offers a provocative look at the role Chinese people, things, and ideas played in the fashioning of American culture and politics."--BOOK J…

  • New York before Chinatown

    William Wei, John Kuo Wei TchenARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culturey 1776–1882. By John Kuo Wei Tchen. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xxiv, 385 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-8018-6006-7.) Get access William Wei William Wei University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1493–1494, htt…

  • Tokyo Life, New York Dreams

    John Kuo Wei TchenARTICLEJournal of Asian American Studies1998

    Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 1, Number 3, October 1998

  • Back to the Basics

    John Kuo Wei TchenARTICLEJournal of American History1994Cited by: 3

    Journal Article Back to the Basics: Who Is Researching and Interpreting for Whom? Get access John Kuo Wei Tchen John Kuo Wei Tchen historian and cultural activist Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1004–1010, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081440 Published: 01 December 1994

  • The Chinese Laundryman

    Raymond Lou, Paul C P Siu et al.ARTICLESocial Forces1989

  • New York Chinatown History Project

    John Kuo Wei TchenARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal1987

    Journal Article New York Chinatown History Project Get access John Kuo Wei Tchen John Kuo Wei Tchen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 24, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1987, Pages 158–161, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/24.1.158 Published: 01 October 1987