Overall, while acknowledging that he had seen only a sliver of some of the country’s most cosmopolitan cities, he said he saw “a real United States” with “warm-hearted and passionate people” – a contrast to the negative images he and his classmates often see in the media. A group of Tsinghua University […]
Story by Muriel Draaisma When Toronto city councillor Lily Cheng was in Grade 5, she says she was harassed by three boys on her way home from school. The boys ran out and called her “all the derogatory names you can think of that apply to a Chinese person” before assaulting her, Cheng recalls.
An interview with the director of Big Fight in Little Chinatown. By Rachel Ho For documentarian Karen Cho signs that one often associates with death ironically point to a living, breathing Chinatown. “I remember telling my cameraman and cinematographers that what I was most excited about seeing were funeral stores,” says Cho, recalling her
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I lived at the same address throughout my American childhood, but neither of my Chinese-born parents could say exactly where they were from. By Vanessa Hua 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 When I asked my father where he was born, I never got a straight answer. Wuhan, he’d say. In other moments, he’d claim Wuchang. I
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Speech to The Canada Committee 100 Society The Honourable Yuen Pau Woo Independent Senator for British Columbia Good afternoon. I have been asked to speak on “blind spots” in Canadian foreign policy and that is what I will do. Every country has blind spots in its approach to international issues because of a
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Siblings’ quest to find out more about their Chinese parents’ complicated pasts. by Florence Hwang In 2006, 81-year-old Nellie Wong placed a framed cheque stub for $20,000 on her end table. At the time, its significance didn’t resonate with her five children. In fact, it was a piece of history. Nellie was one of the
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In the face of gentrification, and economic pressures, residents and advocates are trying to revitalize neighbourhoods. by Yvette Brend William Liu grew up near his family’s frozen dim sum shop that opened in downtown Vancouver in 1991, later moving to a location on nearby East Pender Street, where freezers today brim with bao
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For the people who love Chinatown, a piece of this place only lives in memory. By Kathryn Mannie Chinatown’s steady decline as a hub of culture and economy in recent years comes as no surprise to people who know its history. Chinatown has always been under attack, ever since its formation. The only thing
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Cold War effect could slow the economy and weaken dialogue on crucial issues. by Don Pittis Canadian domestic politics have helped magnify the most recent dispute between Beijing and Ottawa into a full blown tit-for-tat expulsion of diplomats. While some experts who track relations between China and Canada play the spat down — one called
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This webinar is sponsored by: Asian American Scholar Forum Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering APA Justice Brennan Center for Justice Keynote Speaker Ted W. Lieu Ted W. Lieu represents California’s 33rd Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives. Ted is serving