Mae Ngai
Mae Ngai is Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and professor of history at Columbia University. She is the author of the award-winning book Impossible Subjects and The Lucky Ones. She lives in New York City and Accokeek, Maryland.
Awards
Shortlisted — Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2021
Winner — Bancroft Prize, 2022
Shortlisted — Cundill History Prize, 2022
Books by Mae Ngai
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
Mae Ngai
Hardback, 2021
How Chinese migration to the world’s goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of race.The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics
Mae Ngai
E Book, 2021
How Chinese migration to the world’s goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of raceThe Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics
Mae Ngai
Paperback, 2023
How Chinese migration to the world’s goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of race