150 Years - Remembering North Adams' Chinese Immigrants

This commemorative documentary, produced and written by Peter Glazer, was first aired on June 13, 2020, exactly 150 years after 75 young Chinese laborers arrived in the industrial town of North Adams, Massachusetts. The young men were brought from San Francisco by shoe factory owner Calvin T. Sampson to break a strike by the Knights of St. Crispin. This history was the basis for Karen Shepard's 2013 novel "The Celestials," which in turn inspired the play of the same name by Peter Glazer. The documentary was made when the Covid-19 pandemic shut down workshops of "The Celestials" at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in North Adams. It includes interviews with officers of the North Adams Historical Society, author Karen Shepard, descendants of Charles Sing, who was the foreman of the Chinese workers, actor Elijah Guo, who played Sing in "The Celestials," and two scenes from the play, recorded over Zoom in May 2020. It was made in collaboration with MASS MoCA and the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

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