Qian Julie is now a managing partner at Gottlieb & Wang LLP and is dedicated to advocating for marginalized communities' education and discrimination rights. For a decade, she has represented Fortune 500 corporations, governmental entities, and individuals in complex civil litigation. Qian Julie Wang is a litigator and the author of Beautiful Country. Jeffe Distinguished Lecture in Urban History invites leading observers to apply insights from disciplines including history, literature, sociology, and architecture to examine the evolution of New York City's five boroughs.

The Museum of the City of New York's annual Robert A. Lauded as an “essential book for our times” and named one of the New York Times Book Review’s Notable Books of 2021, the memoir intimately retraces Qian Julie’s childhood footsteps where at age seven, she moved from China to Brooklyn with her parents, and overnight went from being the daughter of professors to being deemed “illegal.” With an open heart and a strong passion for advocacy and bringing awareness to marginalized communities, she uses her unique gift for storytelling to transcend the business, legal, political, and literary worlds and focus on the humanity at the heart of these issues. This program is part of the Museum's celebration of AAPI Heritage Month!īeautiful Country was released in 2021 and became an instant New York Times bestseller. Light reception and book signing to follow books available for purchase. Jeffe Distinguished Lecture in Urban HistoryĪuthor and litigator Qian Julie Wang reflects on her searing literary memoir, Beautiful Country, and considers her own childhood journey from China to Brooklyn in the wider context of New York City immigrant narratives, past and present. Following her talk, she will be joined for a conversation with poet and cultural critic Ken Chen. This program was recorded on May 9, 2022.

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