Hung Liu and Daughter of China, Resident Alien
Maya Acharya | Oct. 27, 2016Hung Liu's "Daughter of China, Resident Alien" exhibition at the Katzen Arts Center is a stirring reflection on her history as a Chinese immigrant and explores the history of Chinese immigrants in California during the Gold Rush ― from Resident Alien, the faux green card with Liu's name emblazoned as 'Cookie, Fortune,' to Jiu Jin Shan (Old Gold Mountain), the stark centerpiece, a pile of some two hundred thousand of fortune cookies on top of railroad tracks that is evocative of the thousands of Chinese laborers who participated in America’s boom of transcontinental railroads. Liu’s work spans several different forms of media, from sculptures to paintings to film, and bridges Chinese immigrant life from the 1800’s to the present day.