July 19, 2026

By Sylvie McNamara    Lily Qi grew up in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution, under the authoritarian rule of Mao Zedong. When she emigrated to the United States in 1989, she thought she’d escaped China’s moribund economy and stifling society for better opportunities abroad; she started a family, earned several advanced degrees, and became one of the […]

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The only one barred out. “We must draw the line somewhere, you know,” 1882. Private Collection. Artist Anonymous. The Trump administration is defending the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act against the charge that the law had a racist intent. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images)   By Randall Yip   The Trump administration

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