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Bad Women Presents Stolen Sister

Grandson of a Paper Son from The Chinatown Sting

Bad Women Presents Stolen Sister

Pushkin Industries

True Crime, History

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Judge Denny Chin serves on the US Court of Appeals in New York and he’s an expert on Asian Americans and the law. Every year, he helps to stage reenactments of landmark cases in which Asian Americans fought for their legal and civil rights. Judge Chin speaks with Lidia Jean Kott about his family history and why he became a judge.

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0:00.0

Your favorite true crime series, 48 Hours, is back for a new season, and so is the official

0:05.5

after show podcast, Postmortem. Every Monday, listen to a new episode of 48 hours, and then join

0:11.5

me, 48 hours correspondent Anne-Marie Green on Tuesday for a new episode of Postmortem, where we

0:17.5

bring you a closer look at each case. This case was eye-opening on so many different levels.

0:24.0

Follow and listen to 48 hours on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:33.5

Pushkin.

0:40.3

Hi. Koshkin. Hi everyone, this is Lydia Jean-Kott, back with another special bonus episode of the Chinatown

0:47.3

Sting.

0:48.3

Earlier in this season, we heard about how U.S. immigration laws helped create Chinatowns,

0:53.3

especially a law called the Chinese

0:54.8

Exclusion Act, passed in 1882. This act banned Chinese workers from entering the country,

1:01.4

and it prohibited Chinese immigrants from becoming citizens. And it wasn't until 1965 that immigration

1:08.4

quotas based on ethnicity were finally banned, and Chinatowns truly became

1:13.4

bustling family neighborhoods.

1:20.2

I can't think of anyone better to talk with about this history than Judge Denny Chin.

1:25.3

Not only did he and his family live through this history,

1:28.1

he now teaches it to law students and lawyers.

1:32.2

Judge Jenny Chin sits on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit,

1:37.2

a court that's right below the Supreme Court.

1:40.3

Over the course of his career, Judge Chin has overseen many high-profile trials, including the 2009 trial against financial fraudster Bernie Madoff.

1:51.6

He's taught courses on Asian American legal history at Fordham University, Harvard, and Yale.

1:58.2

And he's the co-author of a forthcoming textbook called Asian Americans

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