The History of Chinese in New England

York Lo is the Immediate Past President of the Rotary Club of Cambridge. He received his MBA from MIT Sloan and is a volunteer for the MIT PKG Center. York Lo is an investment management professional with over 25 years of experience in the US and Asia and a published historian with a focus on the history of the Chinese diaspora and his native Hong Kong. He has been a board member of the Chinese Historical Society of New England (CHSNE) where he launched its Tunney Lee Memorial Lecture series and 150 Years of Chinese Students in America initiative and has been an Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard. Prior to his career in finance, he has worked as a US contributing writer for Forbes Zibenjia (the first Chinese edition of Forbes magazine) in the 1990s and in the past decade he was commissioned to contribute over 30 entries for the Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography (HKU Press, 2011), authored the book East and West: Seven Chinese Christian Families and its Roles in Two Centuries of East-West Relations (Joint Publishing, 2012) and co-authored the book 20th Century Builders and Architects from Shanghai to Hong Kong (Joint Publishing, 2021).