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The China History Podcast

Ep. 256 | Vincent Chin

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

History, Society & Culture

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

With the Xinjiang series behind us, we look at a tragic event from modern Chinese-American history that happened almost four decades ago. The person we will focus on today, Vincent Chin, was living in Detroit, working as a draftsman, and was soon to be married. But then on June 19, 1982 his life took a violent and tragic turn.  This story from history concerns the life of Vincent Chin whose death inspired a movement.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, welcome back again.

0:02.0

Lausl of Montgomery here on a Labor Day weekend here in the beautiful country,

0:06.0

and for the first time since March 22nd, talking about something else besides a history of Xinjiang. I hope you all like that series, an instant classic,

0:15.9

I'm told, in the history podcasting space, Xinjiang category. You know, I wanted to cover today's topic for a few reasons.

0:24.0

First of all, with some people throughout American society being caught on video,

0:29.0

playing fast and loose with the COVID-19 related trash talking about Asian American. and

0:35.0

last and loose with the COVID-19 related trash talking about Asian Americans and some of the physical and verbal assaults against Asians

0:39.0

doesn't matter American or otherwise that we see on YouTube,

0:43.7

Tik-Tock, and other social media,

0:45.9

scrolling through our phones.

0:48.5

Well, that was one reason why I felt that this

0:51.0

was a timely topic, the story of what happened to Vincent Chin.

0:56.0

But what really lit a fire under this one was that,

0:59.0

while President Trump was firing away

1:01.0

with these loaded substitute words for the coronavirus,

1:05.0

Vincent Chin's name kept popping up here and there.

1:08.0

And in a few discussions with some Chinese and Chinese American friends and colleagues, including all five who work for me.

1:16.3

Well, basically, they had no idea who he was.

1:20.6

One of my friends that I spoke to was a member of one of the more well-known Chinese-American organizations.

1:27.0

And I guess also a third reason, according to the statistics provided to me by my long time and wonderful IAB compliant podcast host, Libson.

1:36.0

Well, more than half you are listening to this CHP episode, somewhere outside of the USA.

1:43.0

Perhaps your own country has its own Vincent Chin's story.

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