<description>&lt;p class="p1"&gt;Here's a preview of a new podcast, The Chinatown Sting, from our friends at Pushkin Industries.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p1"&gt;In the late 1980s, a group of women connected through the mahjong parlors in Manhattan's Chinatown were caught in a massive undercover drug bust. But this bust was just the beginning of an even bigger case. Host Lidia Jean Kott and co-reporter Shuyu Wang interview sources who've never spoken on record before, including witnesses, defendants, and federal prosecutors, to reconstruct a case that still has repercussions today and impacted the history of American Chinatowns themselves, which developed to protect immigrants from a hostile society. Listen to The Chinatown Sting wherever you get podcasts and binge the entire season, ad-free, with a Pushkin+ subscription—sign up on The Chinatown Sting Apple Podcasts show page or at &lt;a title="Pushkin+" href= "https://pushkin.fm/plus" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"&gt;&lt;span class="s1"&gt;pushkin.fm/plus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Introducing The Chinatown Sting: Lucky Bird

SEP 23, 202539 MIN
The China History Podcast

Introducing The Chinatown Sting: Lucky Bird

SEP 23, 202539 MIN

Description

Here's a preview of a new podcast, The Chinatown Sting, from our friends at Pushkin Industries.

In the late 1980s, a group of women connected through the mahjong parlors in Manhattan's Chinatown were caught in a massive undercover drug bust. But this bust was just the beginning of an even bigger case. Host Lidia Jean Kott and co-reporter Shuyu Wang interview sources who've never spoken on record before, including witnesses, defendants, and federal prosecutors, to reconstruct a case that still has repercussions today and impacted the history of American Chinatowns themselves, which developed to protect immigrants from a hostile society. Listen to The Chinatown Sting wherever you get podcasts and binge the entire season, ad-free, with a Pushkin+ subscription—sign up on The Chinatown Sting Apple Podcasts show page or at pushkin.fm/plus.