Jane Hong, author of Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion, who helps contextualize Mary’s story in the larger story of Asian immigration to the United States in the 20th Century.
I’m joined in this episode by historian Dr. Late in her life, Mary wrote a memoir, recounting her family’s struggles in Hawaii and then California, where they faced discrimination and poverty, all while striving to make a better life and holding firm to their Presbyterian faith. In 1905, her family left Korea for Hawaii, fleeing the Japanese occupation of the Korean Peninsula. Samuel Austin Moffett, one of the first American Presbyterian missionaries to come to Korea. Mary Paik Lee (Paik Kuang Sun) was born in the Korean Empire on August 17, 1900, and was baptized by American Presbyterian minister Dr.
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