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Asia, The Berkshires, and Me
Originally published on Story Lighthouse . Last Saturday (6/27/2020), we traveled from the famous sandbar we live on known as Cape Cod to...
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China’s Original Maritime Influence: Zheng He’s Ocean Voyages During the Ming Dynasty
Originally published on Medium.com. At a time when the People’s Republic of China is newly ascendant, a look back to the early fifteenth...
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Comments on: This Land is Not Your Land
"To demonize people from another country is a precipice for war." Unfortunately this is happening on both sides of the Pacific with ever...
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Review of Pieces of China, Episode 4 Webinar
China Institute in America 's Pieces of China, Episode 4: Scholar Alfreda Murck was WOW. Dr. Murck took us through Zhang Zeduan's...
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Comments On: 'Congee boiling in a pot:' the Volcano in China they Thought was extinct
"Congee boiling in a pot." Certainly not imminent (more like a slow simmer) and maybe ultimately won't even pan out, but this story seems...
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Comments On: Bird figurine is earliest Chinese artwork ever discovered, say experts
We are living through a time when each day seemingly brings more uncertainty, more turmoil, and more angst. This past weekend was no...
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COVID-19: Anti-Asian Racism in the United States
The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations organized a timely webinar yesterday entitled, COVID-19: Anti-Asian Racism in the United...
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Field of Dreams
Originally published by Yangyang Cheng on Supchina.com Yangyang Cheng 's review on SupChina of Mara Hvistendahl's The Scientist and the...
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My Way or the Highway
The Loss of Nuance in an Either-Or World Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash I sit here on my Cape Cod perch, looking out over a manicured...
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A New History of Being Asian-American
Originally published on The New Yorker - May 14, 2020 By Hua Hsu This sentence in The New Yorker review of the new PBS five-part...
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Denationalized Students Returning to China
An article by Eric Fish on supchina.com discusses the reality being faced by many Chinese students returning home after studying abroad...
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Empowered Chinese Women
Is Chinese Society (Slowly) Changing? Photo by Wang Binghua on Unsplash . A friend sent me a link to an article on @qz.com entitled, “One...
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Egg and Tomato Noodle Soup
I have been craving noodles for weeks now, but we have not traveled to the Asian market nor gone to restaurants because we are limiting...
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“How Dare You”
Nationalism and the Threats to China and America Photo by Marc Szeglat on Unsplash Loving one’s country and being proud of who you are...
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Breathing During a Time of Change
Qigong. I have been a neglectful student the past few months. I didn’t make classes for many weeks before the quarantine and now there...
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The Real Confucius — Parts I and II
Photograph of Temple of Confucius, Beijing by Walter Grassroot Part I — Who is the Sage of Qufu? I thought I knew Confucius. His Chinese...
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Cooking the Covid Numbers
Why Does the Truth Scare Governments? The latest rage in the propaganda war between China and the U.S. is over the amount of afflicted...
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Divided v. United Houses: America and China at the Brink “United We Stand, Divided We Fall.”
Aesop, the New Testament, and Revolution-era America have each adopted this rallying cry to promote strength and success. As the...
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The World's Greatest Pirate
A colorful tale to distract from today's troubled world...the online newsletter at h ttps://www.inkstonenews.com/ recently included a...
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Covid Racism
I have biracial children and have spent most of my life with partners who were and are Asian. Questions of racism are never far from the...
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