Opinion: Living together as neighbors
Mid-South Chinese part of community fabric
Renhao Duan leads the tradtional dragon dance at the Chinese New Year celebration at the Children's Museum of Memphis Saturday, February 8, 2020. Duan is a member of the Confucius Institute at the University of Memphis. (Greg Campbell/Special for The Daily Memphian file)
Robert Lee Long
Robert Lee Long is a retired newspaper editor and a contributing columnist for The Daily Memphian. He is also a historian and theologian and formerly served as a radio correspondent for Mississippi Public Broadcasting.
In Memphis and throughout the Mid-South, Chinese immigrants, now U.S. citizens, have left their mark.
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