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
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Chin Foin, restaurateur
1921: Birds Nests & The First Chinese Woman PhD in Chicago
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
1933: Hu Shih 胡適 gives the Chinese Renaissance lecture series at the University of 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

1945-1950 A pair of Nobel Prize winners studies physics in Chicago
Chen Ning Yang (杨振宁), a native of Hefei in Anhui, and Tsung Dao Lee (李政道), a Shanghainese, came to Chicago… Read more 1945-1950 A pair of Nobel Prize winners studies physics in Chicago