Eveline Chao is a freelance journalist based in Brooklyn, New York, who often writes about China and Chinatowns. Her stories have appeared in the New York Times, BBC, CNN, Foreign Policy, and Atlas Obscura, among others. She is also the author of NIUBI! – The Real Chinese You Were Never Taught in School, a humorous guide to Chinese slang. She lived in Beijing from 2006–2011.
Last summer, one of New York's last "Chinese hand laundries," operated by Robert S. Lee, closed. "Chinese hand laundry" refers to laundry businesses from a specific period, when Chinese immigrants from Taishan, Guangdong were closely associated with this line of work.
