Stories

How a Chinese Laundryman Shaped US Civil Rights From San Francisco

Cecilia Lei Sep 2, 2025 Updated Sep 5, 2025 Photograph of Yick Wo Laundry, In re Wo Lee, case file 3947 (NAID 348094304); Civil and Appellate Case Files, 1863–1911 (NAID 295935); U.S. Circuit Court...

These American mercenaries are revered in China. Their relatives are among the few US invitees to Xi’s WWII military parade

By Brad Lendon Updated Aug. 31st, 2025 Flying Tiger pilot Robert T. Smith snapped this photo of his squadron in flight over China on May 28, 1942. (Photograph by Robert T. Smith/Courtesy Brad Smith)...

New AAPI textbook uncovers untaught stories

Ethnic studies are under attack. Along with any curriculum demonized and dubbed “DEI” (formerly, and more accurately, known as “diversity, equity and inclusion”), the Trump administration is targeting...

Detroit’s Chinatown Revival

Honoring the Past, Building a Pan-Asian Future   By Kim Kisner After decades of dormancy, Detroit’s historic Chinatown is stirring with renewed purpose. The neighborhood near Cass and...

Street sign honoring Vincent Chin installed in Detroit’s historic Chinatown

  Forty-three years ago this month, Vincent Chin, a Detroit area Chinese American, was beaten to death with a baseball bat. Hiskilling and subsequent court proceedings marked the beginning of the...

Multnomah County Board acknowledges, formally apologizes for historic harm to Chinese Americans at Lone Fir Cemetery

Offered by Chair Vega Pederson Commissioner Moyer Commissioner Brim-Edwards Commissioner Singleton Commissioner Jones-Dixon Communications Office June 26, 2025 Decades after Multnomah County bulldozed...

Who Is My Neighbor? Revisiting the Chinese Exclusion Era

Review: ‘Strangers in the Land’ by Michael Luo By Ryan Zhang When I was still a child living in China, we called the Chinese immigrants in America “Gold Mountain Uncles.” When they returned to visit...

Vivian Wan’s family cut out memories from their archives; she had to fill the gaps in herself

By Dalia Al-Dujaili All images © Vivian Wan Today, Tomorrow is playful, collaborative approach to the “precious” photo album which the Chinese-American photographer rebuilt to heal her ruptured roots...

Small Town Preservation and Revitalization, Part 1: Isleton’s Asian American Heritage Park

This is part one of a two-part series on the City of Isleton, and its exemplary community engagement and resourcefulness in pursuing downtown revitalization. The second part focuses on Isleton’s...