By Jessica Xiao Hallmark image promoting All’s Fair in Love and Mahjong A new Hallmark Channel film All’s Fair in Love and Mahjong has drawn criticism from multiple prominent Asian Americans in the media industry. The promotional poster, which was shared on Instagram on Friday, did not feature any visibly Asian cast members or Chinese cultural elements despite […]
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By Kim Do-yeon The Asian character Chin Zhou (circled) appearing in the film ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2,’ which opens on the 29th. Captured from 20th Century Studios YouTube. Hollywood film “The Devil Wears Prada 2” has been caught up in a racism controversy over the portrayal of a Chinese character, fueling a boycott movement
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Interview by Haiden Bergquist https://youtu.be/tTjAApgK5DU Poetry and Text by Flo Oy Wong Featured Image: They Weren’t Supposed, 1994, 19 x 31″ mixed media (rice sack, sequins, threaded text, silkscreen image). Photo: Bob Hsiang. In 1991, Flo Oy Wong, artist, poet, and educator, was the first Asian American woman appointed by President Helen Klebesadel to the
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By Isabelle A. Lu, Crimson Staff Writer ‘Asian Women I Know’ Dinner Still | By Courtesy of Crystal X. Manyloun Sharing stories of growing up over a dim sum meal: It’s not such a surprising concept — in fact, it feels warm, familiar. There’s also something unplaceably familiar about the title “Asian Women I Know,” and,
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Vancouver, B.C., February 5, 2026 — The Chinese Canadian Museum is proud to announce its feature exhibition Dream Factory: Cantopop Mandopop 1980s–2000 has been recognized with the 2025 Canadian Museums Association Award for Outstanding Achievement: Exhibitions, a national honour presented to institutions that have demonstrated excellence in museum exhibition initiatives. In celebration of this award, Dream Factory, originally scheduled to close
On March 28, 2026, CPAC Institute hosted the Education Forum Building Capacity for Equity and Inclusion in Ontario Education in Toronto. The forum brought together educators, researchers, community leaders, and policymakers to explore how East and Southeast Asian Canadian (ESAC) experiences can be more meaningfully integrated into Ontario’s education system and how schools can strengthen their response
By Kaileia O’Brien, News Reporter Karen Su, an author of several children’s books, points at the abundance of dinosaur-themed children’s books during the “Kids Know More About Dinosaurs Than About Asian Americans” event on Tuesday in the Asian American Resource Center. Su emphasized the importance of representation in children’s books. (Ethan Rodriguez | Northern Star) DeKALB– During Tuesday’s
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BY Mike Wu At one time, the First Opium War in 1840 was not only the beginning of modern Chinese history, but also the starting point of a century of national humiliation. Triggered by the opium trade, China fell into poverty and weakness and was invaded by Western powers, becoming a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.
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By Yvaine Ye Stop Asian Hate protest in Washington D.C., March 27, 2021. (Credit: Elvert Barnes/Wikicommons) On March 16, 2021, a gunman killed eight people, including six Asian American women, in shootings at two spas and a massage business in Atlanta, Georgia. This tragedy became a national turning point, sparking Stop Asian Hate protests across the
By Terry Tang Taiwan-born chef George Chen SAN FRANCISCO — Taiwan-born chef George Chen, whose family immigrated to Los Angeles in 1967, vividly remembers how his school lunch of braised pork and Chinese sauerkraut between two pieces of bread was viewed by his classmates. “‘Oh, God, what are you eating? That’s gross,’” Chen recalled during