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Tag Archives: chinese
Asian Heritage Athletes in America Feature: Yao Ming
By Gavin Chen Yao Min, born in Shanghai, China on September 12, 1980, is a Chinese professional basketball player who became one of the most dominant centers in the NBA. Standing at an imposing 7’6” and weighing 310 pounds, … Continue reading
Posted in Sports
Tagged basketball, China, chinese, houston rockets, NBC, shanghai, Yao Ming
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Why Hot Pot Is The Best Meal in China
By Bing Fu Huang There are few meals in this world as amazing as hot pot. A hot pot is a communal meal where diners cook their own ingredients in a boiling broth. Chinese hot pot is especially becoming popular … Continue reading
Brooklyn Nets launch Chinese language web site
The Brooklyn Nets recently launched a Chinese language version of their website – http://www.nba.com/nets/cn – which is not a big surprise given that the NBA’s only Taiwanese American player, Jeremy Lin, plays for the Nets, as reported recently: “The site appears … Continue reading
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Tagged basketball, Brooklyn Nets, chinese, Chinese language, Jeremy Lin, NBA, website
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‘Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion’ Exhibition Opens in NY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awuVO7unZA4 If you want a really quick run-down of Chinese American history, you can read this article on the exhibit in New York City, brought to you by the New York Historical Society, featured in the New York Times. Entitled … Continue reading
Chinese Railroad Workers Inducted into the U.S. Labor Hall of Honor & Reclaiming Promontory Point
On May 9th, history was made as the Chinese Railroad Workers were inducted into the U.S. Labor Hall of Honor. You can view the entire ceremony on the Department of Labor’s YouTube channel. If you don’t happen to know: “But … Continue reading
Chinese American Author Wakes Up Chinese Girl Power
I sat down with Joy Chen, a Los Angeles based author, weeks ago for a story I am working on, which is about Chinese “leftover women,” a Chinese social phenomenon stigmatizing educated, urban and single women over age 27. Chen … Continue reading
Posted in 8Questions, Books
Tagged chinese, do not marry before age 30, gender equality, joy chen, women
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8Asians Chats With…The Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival
The Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival celebrates its Sweet 16th birthday Nov 6-11 in Toronto and Nov 16-17 in Richmond Hill. I sat with Aram Siu-Wai Collier, the Director of Programming for this year’s festival to go over some of … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Movies
Tagged 3D, Canada, China, chinese, Festival, film, Japan, Korean, movie, Philippines, Prison dancer, Taiwanese
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Memorial To Be Placed at Oregon’s Chinese Massacre Cove
On May 25, 1887, a group of up to 34 Chinese miners were massacred by a group of white frontiersmen in Hells Canyon in a section of the Snake River now officially known as Chinese Massacre Cove. After robbing them … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, History
Tagged American frontier, chinese, Discrimination, hate crime, massacre, old west, Oregon, racism
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Richest Self-Made Woman is Chinese
Not Oprah? What? This can’t be! But no, quite on the contrary, it seems that the richest woman in the world happens to be Wu Yanjun, executive director of Longfor Properties Co., who has a net worth of $6.6 billion. … Continue reading
The Red Dawn Remake To Be Released in 2012
After nearly two years of stalling, the Red Dawn remake has finally found a distributor willing to take on this film, after MGM emerged from bankruptcy in 2009 and deciding not to release it. FilmDistrict, an independent studio, is finalizing … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Entertainment, Movies
Tagged America, asian americans, asian invasion, asians, chinese, chris hemsworth, filmdistrict, Hunger Games, kenneth choi, mgm, red dawn, remake, stereotypes, superpower, Thor, xenophobia, yellow peril
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Chinese Premier Confident on US Outlook
Food for thought from the New York Times: The Chinese Premier is meeting with US counterparts and talking as if the US economic smackdown is just a passing phase. Amusingly, this carries a little bit of bias, considering that the … Continue reading
Posted in (simple), Business, Current Events
Tagged China, chinese, debt, economy, global, outlook, United States
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