Upcoming Events

OCI Public talk - The Chinese diaspora's fight for belonging and survival in America

Friday, March 7, 2025 - 13:00 to 14:00

Online via MS Teams

Contact: online-ci@open.ac.uk

Please join us for the next in our series of OCI Public Talks where we are delighted to welcome author Hugo Wong who will talk about the experience of Chinese migrants in North America in the early 20th Century.

About the talk:

The early Chinese migrants in the US faced a profound sense of alienation and a rapidly changing society. Rejected by the US Exclusion Act of 1882, many migrants moved south to Mexico, at a time when revolutions were about to take place in both China and their new host country. North and south of the border, those migrants were often pulled in opposite directions: tradition versus modernity, the cultures of their native versus their host country, and assimilation versus isolation. First treated differently in each of the US and Mexico, the migrants ultimately faced the same exclusion, responding to it with similar adaptability, resilience, and courage.

Take a look at some of our recent public talks and events

Friday, August 1, 2025 - 00:00

If you missed the chance to attend the first time or would like to rewatch some of our recent public talks and events here, you can view these on the previous events page.