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Together for Canada 04:Before Accepting a Claim, Examine the Evidence

Hello, and welcome back. In the previous episode, we discussed how openness, transparency, and accountability help strengthen democratic resilience. Today, we’ll look at another question—one...

Contextualizing The Appeal of the Chinese Equal Rights League

  The New York Historical’s Student Historian internship focuses on the four core pillars of Frederick Douglass’s Our Composite Nation speech: absolute equality, composite nationality, religious...

Kansas professor falsely accused of espionage wants university to pay for firing, harm to reputation

By Anna Kaminski TOPEKA — An anonymous tip accusing a Chinese-American chemist and researcher of espionage spurred the University of Kansas into action, notifying the U.S. Department of Justice and...

Together for Canada 03: How Can Community Organizations, Schools, and the Media Strengthen Democratic Resilience?

  Hello, and welcome back. So far in this series, we’ve explored what foreign interference is and how individuals can better protect themselves. Today, we’ll look at a broader...

Together for Canada 02: How Can Ordinary Canadians Help Protect Themselves from Foreign Interference?

  Hello, and welcome back. In our first episode, we explored what foreign interference is. Now let’s turn to an equally important question: What can ordinary Canadians do to help protect...

Community Bonds: The Early History of the Chinese Six Companies

By Ellen Terrell Map of China. The pink in the bottom right center is Canton, and an enlarged portion is the lower left square. Colton’s China, 1861, J.H. Colton: New York (Library of Congress/...

Peace Arch: The Gates That Were Never to Close Can No Longer Be Freely Crossed

Border, Freedom, and the Changing Canada–U.S. Relationship in Ying Wang’s Documentary THE BORDER   South of Vancouver, Highway 99 runs toward the United States and ends at a white archway. One...

Maryland Delegate Lily Qi’s Journey From Shanghai to Annapolis

By Sylvie McNamara    Lily Qi grew up in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution, under the authoritarian rule of Mao Zedong. When she emigrated to the United States in 1989, she thought she’d...

Trump is trying to bury this Bay Area window into Chinese American history

Bruce Lee’s mother declares that she is a temporary resident of the U.S. in a document in the National Archives collection in San Bruno. National Archives   By Harry Mok   Anna Eng...