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Donation boosts plans for sculpture honoring Seattle Chinese immigrants

Nov. 6, 2025 at 11:18 am 1 of 2 |Artist’s rendering of the 14-foot Chinese American Legacy Artwork Project art installation. It depicts six life-size figures: three Chinese laborers and three...

Making infrastructure smarter and safer: How Xiaoyi Bao’s fiber optic breakthroughs are protecting lives and the environment

By University of Ottawa Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation, OVPRI October 30, 2025   Photo credit: Sylvie Li | Shoot Studio When you drive across a bridge, walk through a...

Man convicted in execution-style killing of Chicago Chinatown grandfather

By Carl Samson 17 days ago A Chicago jury on Thursday found a man guilty of first-degree murder in the execution-style killing of a 71-year-old grandfather in Chinatown nearly four years ago. Catch...

Black and Chinese Communities Unite: Five Years of Dialogue, Healing, and Standing Against Hate

October 22, 2025  The group rallied with demonstrators in front of the Hall of Justice for Vicha Ratanapakdee on March 22, 2021, in San Francisco, Calif. (From left to right) Bayard Fong, Chinese...

Chinese-Canadian WWII veteran Gordie Quan remembered as ‘more than just a regular soldier’

Quan was one of many Chinese-Canadians who fought for Canada in WWII despite not being recognized as citizens Michelle Gomez · CBC News · Posted: Oct 12, 2025 12:46 PM PDT | Last Updated: October 12...

Demonstrators protest Ohio land ownership measures that target Chinese immigrants

By:Nick Evans–October 1, 20254:50 am  Demonstrators protesting a pair of Ohio measures that would restrict land ownership by noncitizens from countries designated as “foreign adversaries.”...

R. F. Kuang

“Academia is like a fairy-tale land with its own rules, and half of the rules are nonsense.” At 29 years old, the Chinese-American author of the best-selling novel Yellowface is getting ready to...

What’s Up With the Asian Grocery Store in Sinners?

How Chinese Americans Helped Black Communities in the Jim Crow South September 18, 2025 by Jeffrey Kass Unless you’ve studied history closely, you may have been surprised to see a Chinese-owned...

Why I Write: To Help Us Know the Past

Through family history, memory, and Chinese American stories, Lisa See reflects on why she writes—to preserve voices, confront injustice, and foster hope.   By Lisa See and Photo by Dustin...