Stories

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...

New ‘Out Museum’ In SF’s Chinatown Showcases Chinese LGBTQ Artists and Culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oimCLplQud8&t=38s The Out Museum held its grand opening with a rainbow-ribbon cutting in late May, timed to fall between Asian American and Pacific Islander...

Andrea Louie’s path to publication

Abigail Hosler  The MSU anthropology chair published a book chronicling her grandmother who was named U.S. Mother of the Year in 1952 Andrea Louie poses for a photo with her book “Chinese...

Ke Huy Quan and Jeremy Lin share stories of resilience

By Randall Yip  Academy Award winning actor Ke Huy Quan and NBA World Champion Jeremy Lin took the stage recently to accept honors from The Asian American Foundation at the Javit Convention Center in...

A rare collection of Chinese cheongsams tells a story of personal style and cultural connection in 20th-century America

By Stephy Chung  https://voicesandbridges.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/img-0079.mp4 Early- to mid-20th century Chinese clothing exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles...