Agnes Hsu-Tang

rdf:langString Agnes Hsu-Tang

rdf:langString Agnes Hsu-Tang

rdf:langString Agnes Hsu-Tang

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rdf:langString Agnes Hsin Mei Hsu

rdf:langString 徐心眉

rdf:langString Hsu-Tang in 2019

rdf:langString 徐心眉

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rdf:langString Archaeologist, art historian, author, activist-philanthropist

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rdf:langString Agnes Hsin Mei Hsu-Tang (Chinese: 徐心眉) is a Taiwan-born American archaeologist and art historian. She is Chairwoman of the New-York Historical Society board of trustees and a Distinguished Consulting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Hsu-Tang works in cultural heritage protection and rescue and has advised UNESCO and the U.S. Cultural Property Advisory Committee. She co-founded the Hsu-Tang Library for Classical Chinese Literature at Oxford University, the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies at Berkeley, and the Tang Center for Early China at Columbia University. Hsu-Tang is known to be actively engaged in social justice projects, including providing leadership support for New-York Historical Society's exhibitions Chinese in America: Exclusion/Inclusion (2014-2015) and Dreaming Together (2020-2021), Opera Saint Louis's An American Soldier, Santa Fe Opera's Dr. Sun Yat-sen and M. Butterfly. During the COVID pandemic, she co-founded The Yellow Whistle campaign to combat anti-Asian violence and historical discrimination against Americans of Asian descent. The campaign distributed 500,000 free customized yellow whistles emblazoned with the slogan "WE BELONG" at rallies and through a national alliance of activist organizations and has received extensive national press coverage to raise awareness. Hsu-Tang leads New-York Historical Society's capital project to build a 70,000 square foot annex designed by Robert A. M. Stern Architects, with one floor dedicated to the American LGBTQ+ Museum. She also developed and supports the New-York Historical Society–CUNY Museum Studies program that provides high-qualify affordable graduate curriculum, with a focus on public history and collective heritage, aimed to diversify the museum workforce and address the needs of an increasingly diverse and engaged museum-going public.

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