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Suzy Schlosberg (许薰尹)is a junior majoring in International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Suzy was born in Beijing, China and immigrated to Chicago, Illinois at the age of eight. Her fondest memories of growing up in Chicago often entailed going to the bustling Chinatown, eating good food, and shopping for groceries at Asian supermarkets with her mom. By documenting Baltimore’s historic Chinatown and wider AAPI heritage, Suzy hopes to continue her search and enable others’ search for identity and belonging in Asian America.
Special thanks to Stephanie Hsu and Robbin Lee of the Chinatown Collective for sharing their research, photographs, and chatting with me about Charm City Night Market. Thank you to Jeff Huntington and Julia Gibb, artists of the Chinese Dragon and Lion of Judah mural, for providing photographs of the mural and speaking with me about their vision. I am grateful to Lillian Kim and Leslie Chin for their documentation in the 1970s of Baltimore’s Chinatown families, networks, and impact, and to Kitty Chin and Calvin Chin for their ceaseless work in remembering and revitalizing the historic Chinatown. The majority of my research comes from The Baltimore Sun’s archived news articles, the Maryland Historical Trust Society Blog, and Leslie Chin’s 1976 booklet History of Chinese-Americans in Baltimore.
REFERENCES
Chin, Leslie. History of Chinese-Americans in Baltimore. The Greater Baltimore Chinese-American Bicentennial Committee, 1976.
Equal Justice Initiative. “California Law Prohibits Asian Immigrants from Owning Land.” EqualJustice Initiative (blog), May 3. https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/may/3.
Gunther, Katie. “As Old Ways Faded, so Did Chinatown: Reversing Decay Is Hope behindPan- Asian Plan.” The Sun, November 27, 1983. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Baltimore Sun (1837-1988).
Hsu, Stephanie. Chinatown Collective Interview with Stephanie Hsu. Interview by SuzySchlosberg, March 28, 2023.
Huntington, Jeff, and Julia Gibb. Mural Interview with Jeff Huntington and Julia Gibb. Interviewby Suzy Schlosberg, March 16, 2023.
Khafagy, Amir. “What the Gentrification of Baltimore’s Chinatown Means.” Bloomberg, December 4, 2019. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-04/what-gentrification-of-baltimore-s-chinatown-means.
Kim, Lillian. “Mini Exceprts - Early Baltimore Chinese Families.” In Chinese Americans - A Part of America. Maryland Bicentennial Commission Grant, 1977.
Klein, Mary. “FROM THE ARCHIVES: CHINESE PRESENCE IN BALTIMORE, TWO BALTIMORE CHURCHES.” Maryland Episcopalian (blog), February 16, 2022. https://marylandepiscopalian.org/2022/02/16/from-the-archives-chinese-presence-in-baltimore-two-baltimore-churches/.
McLeod, Ethan. “For One Night in September, an Asian Night Market Will Set up Shop inBaltimore’s Old Chinatown.” Baltimore Fishbowl, August 10, 2018. https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/for-one-night-in-september-an-asian-night-market-will-set-up-shop-in-baltimores-old-chinatown/.
Lee, Robbin. Chinatown Collective Interview with Robbin Lee. Interview by Suzy Schlosberg, March 13, 2023.
Luthern, Allison. “Baltimore’s Chinatown.” The Maryland Historical Trust Blog (blog), June 3, 2022. https://mdhistoricaltrust.wordpress.com/2022/06/03/baltimores-chinatown/.
Rasmussen, Frederick. “Lillian Lee Kim, 85, Writer, Community Leader.” The Baltimore Sun, September 18, 2004. https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2004-09-18-0409180270-story.html.
Rehert, Issac. “Lillian Kim Writes First History of Chinese in Baltimore.” The Sun, January 8, 1977. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Baltimore Sun (1837-1988)
Schmidt, John. “Chinatown and Its Vanishing Folkways: More and More Baltimore’s Chinese Become Americanized and Spread Out, but Some Traditions Are Maintained.” The Sun, March 30, 1958. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Baltimore Sun (1837-1988).
Teng, Emma. How Mixed Chinese-Western Couples Were Treated A Century Ago. Blog post,January 10, 2017. https://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/how-mixed-chinese-western-couples-were-treated-century-ago#:~:text=Between%201850%20and%201950%2C%2015,arouse%20scandal%20and%20opposition%20nonetheless.
Tkacik, Christina. “Baltimore’s Historic Chinatown Again an Immigrant Hub.” The BaltimoreSun, September 11, 2017. https://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/2017/09/park-avenue-baltimores-historic-chinatown/#1.
Yee, Karen. “Baltimore Chinatown Tour.” Historypin (blog), 2022https://www.historypin.org/en/baltimore-chinatown-tour-2/geo/39.290385,-76.612189,17/bounds/39.287578,-76.614501,39.293192,-76.609877/paging/1/pin/1146380/project/about.
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