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When the slender, affable Chinese man took the podium in Harlem’s posh Golden Gate ballroom on a late autumn afternoon to denounce three recent lynchings in Mississippi, the audience’s FBI informant perked up.

How did a small-town dermatologist in Taiwan amass the most historically important record collection in China, one so vast he doesn’t know its size? Post Magazine finds out.

April 9 marks the US activist-singer’s 125th birth anniversary.

Author and history professor Gao Yunxiang unpacks the little-known yet important relationship between Paul Robeson and China, which continues to resonate powerfully today.

Beginning in the 1930s, African American intellectuals and nationalist Chinese, bound by a shared oppression, forged a bond that would last decades.

In November 1940, Paul Robeson received a phone call, perhaps from the noted Chinese writer Lin Yutang, asking him to meet a recent arrival from China: Liu Liangmo. Within half an hour, Robeson was in the caller’s apartment. Liu recalled Robeson “beaming over me with his friendly smile and his giant hands firmly holding mine.” They became fast friends. When Robeson inquired

In China, Robeson continues to be remembered as a loyal friend celebrated for popularizing what became China’s national anthem and building solidarity between peoples of China and African Americans.