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— by Julia Jacobs: For the Museum of Chinese in America, this year has been one disaster after another.

In January, a fire ripped through the upper floors of the Chinatown building that held the museum’s archives, endangering roughly 85,000 artifacts. Then the coronavirus pandemic, which had prompted a surge in anti-Asian harassment, also shut the museum down for months…

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