Dafeng Xu

Urban planning scholar and author of Chinatown: San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake and the Paradox of American Immigration Policy (JHU Press, 2026); researches immigrant neighborhoods, census history, and Chinese and global migration.

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Feb 4, 2026 • 54min

Dafeng Xu, "Chinatown: San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake and the Paradox of American Immigration Policy" (JHU Press, 2026)

Dafeng Xu, an urban planning scholar who studies immigrant neighborhoods and migration history, traces Chinatown's near-erasure after the 1906 quake and its contested rebuilding. Short segments explore family separation from immigration bans, how burned records enabled paper sons, language and schooling barriers, residential segregation as protection and constraint, and the use of architecture to assert identity.

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