One of the first Chinese women ever photographed in Chicago, at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.  According to one source… Read more Chinese Beauty, 1893

Many Chinese women who got a college degree in the US before World War II went back to China to… Read more 1921: Birds Nests & The First Chinese Woman PhD in Chicago

Hu, who had been a student at Cornell in 1910 and at Columbia after that, was already famous when he… Read more 1933: Hu Shih 胡適 gives the Chinese Renaissance lecture series at the University of Chicago