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Radio
Chinatown
Maya Lin
The artist and architect
Maya Lin
talks about her career, from designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
in Washington, D.C., to her latest earth sculpture, Storm King
Wavefield, her design for the new
Museum of Chinese in America, and other
projects.
Chinatowns Around America
Bonnie
Tsui, journalist and author of
American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods,
discusses her book about Chinatowns around America. 8/09
Chop Suey
Andrew Coe
explains the history of America's infatuation with Chinese food in
his book
Chop Suey. His story takes us from China to the
1848 Gold Rush in the American West to the New York, where
"Bohemians" discovered chop suey, to President Nixon’s trip to
China.
7/09
Chinatown
Brims with Produce Bargains (Part 1):
Chinatown
Brims with Produce Bargains (Part 2):
The price of produce in New York varies widely from
neighborhood to neighborhood. Prices in Chinatown are especially
cheap. You can often buy produce for a small fraction of the price
you’d pay in a bodega or supermarket less than a mile away. WNYC’s
Lisa Chow finds out why.
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