Born in Pittsburgh, Micahel Luo is the son of Chinese immigrants. He attended Harvard, and later became a reporter at the New York Times and today he is the Executive Editor at The New Yorker.

One rainy afternoon in 2016, he was standing on the sidewalk with his family and some friends after church, trying to decide where to go to lunch when a stranger accosted him and his family. “Go back to China,” she said.

Today, he joins us for the hour to talk about his new book on the hidden history of brutality and violence that so many Chinese Americans faced at the turn of the century.

Learn more about Michael Luo's upcoming event at the Mark Twain House here.

GUEST:
Michael Luo: Executive Editor for the New Yorker, and author of the book Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America

Born in Pittsburgh, Micahel Luo is the son of Chinese immigrants. He attended Harvard, and later became a reporter at the New York Times and today he is the Executive Editor at The New Yorker.
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/nyregion/to-the-woman-who-told-my-family-to-go-back-to-china.html?mcubz=0&amp;_r=0">One rainy afternoon in 2016,</a>&nbsp;he was standing on the sidewalk with his family and some friends after church, trying to decide where to go to lunch when a stranger accosted him and his family. &ldquo;Go back to China,&rdquo; she said.
Today, he joins us for the hour to talk about his new book on the hidden history of brutality and violence that so many&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/10/when-an-american-town-massacred-its-chinese-immigrants">Chinese Americans faced at the turn of the century.</a>
Learn more about Michael Luo's upcoming event at the Mark Twain House&nbsp;<a href="https://marktwainhouse.org/event/strangers-in-the-land-exclusion-belonging-and-the-epic-story-of-the-chinese-in-america-virtual/">here.</a>
GUEST:
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<li><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/michael-luo">Michael Luo:</a>&nbsp;Executive Editor for the New Yorker, and author of the book&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/strangers-in-the-land-exclusion-belonging-and-the-epic-story-of-the-chinese-in-america-michael-luo/21713721">Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America</a></li>
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Produced by Connecticut Public, '<a href="https://www.ctpublic.org/show/where-we-live/about">Where We Live'</a> puts Connecticut in context. Host Catherine Shen brings us fascinating, informed, in-depth conversations and stories beyond news headlines.  We start local, but we take time to explore domestic and international issues and consider how they impact us personally and here at home.