Join us on Thursday, September 29, at 7PM for an in-person presentation on "The History of Chinese Americans in Massachusetts." (Registration is required HERE.)

Dr. Michael Liu, a lifelong activist and scholar of the Boston Chinatown community, will present a talk on the history of Chinese Americans in Massachusetts.  The presentation will also cover its relationship to anti-Asian attitudes that continue into the present.

Dr. Michael Liu is the author of Forever Struggle: Activism, Identity, and Survival in Boston's Chinatown, 1880-2018 and the former senior research associate at the Institute for Asian American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston.  Born in Chinatown to working-class parents, Liu returned to Boston after graduating from Swarthmore College in 1970, and helped create social justice groups such as the Asian American Resource Workshop, the Chinese Progressive Association, the Boston Rainbow Coalition, and the Asian American Political Agenda Coalition. Liu holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from UMass Boston.

MetroWest Readers Fest thanks the Goodnow Library for providing programming to help illuminate and complement some of the themes in Thank You, Mr. Nixon by Gish Jen.