Michael Luo
Executive Editor at The New Yorker
executive editor @newyorker; author of “Strangers in the Land,” from @doubledaybooks; formerly @nytimes investigations.
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2 weeks ago |
newyorker.com | Michael Luo
Everett F. Drumright, the American consul-general in Hong Kong, believed that the United States was confronting a grave threat to its national security. It was 1955, and the consular officers were being besieged by Chinese people seeking to flee the mainland and immigrate to the U.S., claiming that they were American citizens through a parent. According to Drumright, virtually all of them were relying on fictitious documents.
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2 weeks ago |
asianamericans.einnews.com | Michael Luo
Soon after Drumright submitted his report, federal prosecutors embarked on a wide-ranging probe of the Chinese community.
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1 month ago |
newyorker.com | Michael Luo
They were proud citizens of a country that did not want them. It was Independence Day, in 1895, in San Francisco’s Chinese quarter. Men with long braids who were dressed in traditional Chinese attire hobnobbed inside a building on Clay Street that was decked out in bunting and American flags. The men, who were all born in the United States, and spoke fluent English, were helping to inaugurate a new organization, the Native Sons of the Golden State.
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Mar 7, 2025 |
rsn.org | Michael Luo
In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of their Asian neighbors in Rock Springs, Wyoming. A hundred and forty years later, the story of the atrocity is still being unearthed. The town of Rock Springs sprouts out of a vacant landscape of sandstone cliffs and sagebrush in southern Wyoming. It is a fading former mining town, where herds of deer now meander through the streets. A century-old sign overlooking the railroad tracks downtown reads “Home of Rock Springs Coal.” The mines closed decades ago.
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Mar 6, 2025 |
newyorker.com | Michael Luo
In today’s newsletter, the 1885 massacre in Rock Springs, Wyoming—and its frightening echoes today. Plus:• “Severance” fetishizes the office• London is a local-news desert• How many immigrants will die in U.S. custody? Only one man’s face is clearly visible in the photograph. He is wearing a brimmed hat, an oversized coat, and boots. He seems to be mid-stride, with one foot in front of the other, as though he’s walking out of the frame.
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Happy pub day @eosnos! Go buy this book everyone! https://t.co/cF9SbaYzbx https://t.co/63Lpg53scF
Chatted w/ @WalterIsaacson abt “Strangers in the Land” for @AmanpourCoPBS. We talked about how the Chinese were protagonists in the story of America and my anxieties as I watch politicians in both parties become increasingly bellicose about China. https://t.co/CPxmcNCj9K https://t.co/WvzqoiX1yx
RT @AmanpourCoPBS: .@michaelluo, Executive Editor of The @NewYorker, hopes to bring the history of the Chinese in America into the light wi…
