Asian American History 101
Gen and Ted Lai
4.9from 160 ratings
- 321
- Episodes
- 34
- Transcribed
- 160
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Asian American History 101
Asian American History 101 is a fun, family-friendly, and informative podcast co-hosted by Gen and Ted Lai, the daughter and father team. The podcast will entertain and educate people as Gen and Ted dive into the vast history of Asian Pacific Americans from the struggles they faced to their contributions and triumphs. And sometimes we cover topics of the Asian Pacific Diaspora globally.
- Publisher
- Gen and Ted Lai
- Category
- history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 29 Nov 2020
- Latest episode
- 26 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
34 of 321 episodes have a transcript.
26 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The History of API in Vaudeville, Part 2
19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
A Conversation with Award-Winning Creator and Educator Alina Chau, the Author of the Graphic Novel Monkey King Uprise in Heaven
12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
A Conversation with E.L. Shen, the Acclaimed Author of Foreigners
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The History of API in Vaudeville, Part 2
Published 26 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And this is a frequent challenge that historians face when researching early Asian American entertainers. Newspapers preserved what theater managers thought would sell tickets, not necessarily what future generations would want to know. But the surviving evidence still provides a glimpse into some important information. The Chong sisters weren't unusual because they were sisters. They were unusual because they were Chinese-American women successfully performing on mainstream vaudeville stages at a time when very few people who looked like them were given that opportunity. Although there weren't mountains of diaries or advertisements left behind, we know they appeared on West Coast vaudeville stages during the 1910s and 1920s. […]
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- Alina Chau
- E L Shen
- Elizabeth Shen
- Autumn Krause
- Cassandra Lam
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 95 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 65 ratings
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- 92
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 93
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