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Remembering Peter Kwong, Scholar of the City and Champion for Justice

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  • Erica Pearson
    Posted March 20, 2017 at 10:24 am

    Rest In Heaven Dr. Kwong. He was one of my favorite professors here at Hunter College. Dr. Kwong will be missed.

  • graham hodges
    Posted March 20, 2017 at 1:07 pm

    a tragic and unexpected loss. Peter was a determined, ruthlessly honest New York intellectual. His work ranged widely, was always current and open to new ideas. Hard to believe he has left us.

  • Stuart Ewen
    Posted March 20, 2017 at 5:12 pm

    I knew Peter from the mid-1970s, when he taught at SUNY Old Westbury and was a colleague of my late wife, Liz Ewen. When he came to Hunter, our connection continued. In recent times our conversations moved from politics to innovative building techniques. He spoke with me at length of a house he built in the country made of straw bales and stucco. Today is the first I’ve heard of his passing. I will miss him.

    • Julie Laura Rose
      Posted March 23, 2017 at 10:11 pm

      Both Peter and Liz were excellent professors at Old Westbury. I was lucky to have learned from them during the many semesters I was in their classes or knew them through their departments from 1976 to 1980. Both great, and both gone way too soon.

  • Diane Faher
    Posted March 20, 2017 at 8:53 pm

    For Dr Kwong, Your voice and you wisdom will be missed. Condolences to your family and friends. Rest in peace.

  • Joanna
    Posted March 21, 2017 at 10:06 am

    This past Sunday, I heard about Dr. Kwong (known as Peter) in a community center where he was an active member. I heard beautiful things about him, I wish I had the chance to meet him in person. Great loss. Rest in peace.

  • Antonia Vitale
    Posted March 21, 2017 at 12:29 pm

    I had the pleasure of being in one of Professor Kwong’s classes during my time at Hunter. He was an incredible teacher and a kind human. He will be missed.

  • Gary Glick
    Posted March 21, 2017 at 1:42 pm

    Peter–so sorry I never had the chance to see you in recent years. But your keen observations, cynical humor and devotion to justice stay as fresh as the time I met you 48 years ago

  • Albert Ruben
    Posted March 21, 2017 at 3:19 pm

    How can I be informed where and when Peter’s memorial service will be held?

  • Edward Liu
    Posted March 21, 2017 at 3:39 pm

    Peter Kwong died in NYC, one of the most steadfast and prodigious narrator and documentarian of Asian-America and in particular Chinese-America…. the complex, nuanced, class-income-stratified ethnic cluster(s) which are often broadbrushed and not fully understood by the outside world.

    Out here in California, another Chinese-American historian-scholar, Phil Choy, has also passed on.

    With Him Mark Lai, Lonnie Ding (filmmaker-documentarian of Chinese-America), Peter Kwong, Phil Choy, and others of this Vietnam-war generation all dying away, I wonder who among the young millennials, the new Chuppies (Chinese urban upwardly mobile professionals), the Ivy League preppies and city techies will now take on where these older generation left off.

    The China back in Asia has changed. So has Chinese-America and Asian-America.

    K-Pop, Gangnam, Hipsterism, and urban slickers, LVMH have taken over. Lumpen Chinese are no longer the norm. Everyone wants to emulate Alibaba Jack Ma or Baidu Robin Ma, and others want to become another Wanda-Dalian Wang Jianlin or HKG superman Li Ka-Shing.

    Where are our intellectual “role models?” The great scholars? The great writers and documentarians like Peter Kwong? No mas. No mas. No mas.

  • Juan Martinez
    Posted October 15, 2020 at 7:41 pm

    I’m so sorry to hear about Peter Kwong’s death, I remember him from my days at SUNY College at Old Westbury 1972-1976 I took several classes with him and he was one of the most influential persons in my life.
    RIP

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