by Nancy Eng | May 2, 2012 | The Public Humanist
In the middle of Lunar New Year’s celebrations, the Chinese Historical Society of New England (CHSNE) held its second in a series of 20th anniversary lectures in late January. We invited Columbia University Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and...
by Wen-ti Tsen | May 8, 2012 | The Public Humanist
Near the end of Mae Ngai’s The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America, there is a paragraph that describes the surviving daughter-in-law of the story’s patriarch returning to the family home and planting a garden. The...
by Patrick Vitalone | May 16, 2012 | The Public Humanist
If I had to select the most prominent takeaway from both working and going to grad school in Britain, it would have to be the impression that many English men and women consider the modern world very much their own. That the luxuries and conveniences of the present...
by Brendan Tapley | May 18, 2012 | The Public Humanist
When the real increasingly becomes the surreal, where does one turn for a dose of the truth? Maybe back to the original lie: literature. Six years ago, when it was revealed that James Frey’s memoir, A Million Little Pieces, had originally been submitted to...
by Hannah Lapuh | May 24, 2012 | The Public Humanist
Editor’s Note: The art of storytelling has worked its way into Mass Humanities’ understanding of what the humanities can encompass in a few ways over the past couple of years. In December ’11 and the December before that, Mass Humanities awarded the...
