ENDURANCE STREETS (堅韌的街道): Resilience and Response in Boston’s Chinese Community

September 15 - November 15, 2022

Tufts Medical Center & Boston Chinatown

Curated by Diane O’Donoghue

My “Laundry Rock” project is included in this exhibition. In my paintings, inspired by local history of Chinese laundry businesses, piles of laundry shirts were reimagined into Taihu rock, 太湖石.

This exhibition honors the life long work of Tunney F. Lee (1931-2020), architect, professor of urban planning at MIT. His Chinatown Atlas, the largest and most comprehensive documentation of Boston’s Chinatown, was recently bequeathed to the Chinese Historical Society of New England. I am indebted to Professor Lee who encouraged me in the process of this work.

Endurance Street is a collaboration between Tufts University’s Tisch College for Public Humanities and the Chinese Historical Society of New England (CHSNE).