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Virtual Tenement Talk
Virtual Tenement Talk – Beautiful Country
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When: Thursday, March 31, 2022, 6:30 - 7:30 pm ET
Event Location: YouTube Live
Cost: Suggested Donation
Join us on YouTube Live for a live Tenement Talk with Qian Julie Wang author of Beautiful Country in conversation with journalist and New York Times Book Review editor Elisabeth Egan, live-streamed from the museum’s recreated 20th-century garment factory.
In Beautiful Country, Wang shares a poignant and necessary memoir of her experiences as an undocumented child in 1990s. Tracing her life from second grade to middle school, from Zhong Gui, China to Brooklyn, Wang gives us intimate memories of her early years living on the margins. As she writes, “The Chinese refer to being undocumented colloquially as ‘hei’: being in the dark, being blacked out. And aptly so, because we spent those years shrouded in darkness while wrestling with hope and dignity.” As her parents work jobs in factories, including a garment factory, Qian Julie navigates school, the diversity of Chinese New Yorkers, and her family’s immigration status. In 2016, she was inspired to write her story, resulting in this unique memoir of her perspectives over time.
While this program is free, you can donate to support future programming from the Tenement Museum here.
Purchase Beautiful Country at the Tenement Museum shop!
This program will continue to be available on our Youtube channel following the LIVE screening.