Chinese american art
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Alex Jay collection
Collection
Identifier: 2001.026-2015.041-2017.003
Scope and Contents
This collection mostly contains materials procured by Alex Jay and focus on Chinese American writers and playwrights, artists and illustrators, actors, comic book artists, filmmakers, designers, and architects. There are various periodicals, artwork, books, comic books, recipes, playbills, and other items either by Chinese Americans or about Chinese Americans, all dating between 1914 and 2015. Objects are also searchable via PastPerfect Online System at...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1877-2015
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
/
Alex Jay collection
Fold Exhibition Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: 2018.034
Abstract
On June 6, 1993, the Golden Venture ran aground near Rockaway Beach, Queens, NY. The cargo ship passengers, nearly 300 migrants primarily from Fujian Province, China, were being smuggled into America by a Chinese crime syndicate. While the asylum-seekers waited for uncertain legal outcomes in York Country Prison, Pennsylvania, they began creating paper sculptures employing the traditional Chinese folk art of paper folding. Originally, these pieces were created as gifts for their lawyers and...
Dates:
2018