Key Art for the documentary film by Ric Burns and Li-Shin Yu: “The Chinese Exclusion Act“.

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The origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here to become U.S. citizens.

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2) First concepts and explorations.

3, 4) Researches using original documents in a collage

5) Focus on typographic documents

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