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Chen Art Gallery: Hiding in Plain Sight
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 23 Torrance, California is a short drive south of Los Angeles. As you cruise...
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China 1980: Scenes from the Shore Excursions
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 22 In 1980 a young English photographer boarded an American cruise ship in...
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Jimmy Carter and U.S.-China Relations
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 21 Ten days before Christmas 1978, U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Chinese...
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The Eighteenth-Century Destruction of Chinese Tea in Boston Harbor
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 20 Chinese Tea. American Ships. British Trade. Boston Harbor. A Faraway King....
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Children and Social Media
(photo by Merakist on Unsplash) Before, and particularly during, the Covid-19 pandemic, China began limiting the social media exposure of...
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China’s Youth and the Future of China
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 19 China boasts an energized, under-40 population of more than one half...
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Chinese Intellectuals on U.S.-China Relations
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 18 The American government, and by extension much of the American populace and...
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The Lum Panels
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 17 My Chinese professor once told me that if I did not expect anything (as I...
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Life Imitating Art
This morning life intersected with art. I began writing a novel four years ago. Historical fiction. I researched. I went on a writing...
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Lunar New Year 2023
This Special Issue welcomes the Lunar New Year 2023! My home of Cape Cod held a New Year’s celebration yesterday. It was a packed house...
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10,000 Li Along the Yangzi River
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 14 The New Year has arrived. It can be a time of new journeys and hopefully...
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Welcome 2023!
I stepped outside my front door at 5:45 a.m. this morning, January 1, 2023. Above me hundreds of stars, including the Big Dipper directly...
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Generation-Z Entering the Workforce
Chinese meme of Gen-Z worker telling boss to shut up (From @乌鸦校尉 on Zhihu) This Sixthtone.com article on Gen-Z workers in China is timely...
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Anna May Wong U.S. Quarter Released
For our family gathering on the eighth and last night of Chanukah (which coincided with Christmas this year), my mother swapped out the...
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China 2022
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 13 The 2022 final curtain is approaching. It has been a momentous year in...
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The Frustrations and Anxieties of China
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 11 Widespread citizen protests erupted in China this past weekend. What do...
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Peaches and Immortality II
Porcelain seal ink container, San Francisco Asian Art Museum I wrote about the connection between peaches and immortality in Chinese...
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The Entertaining Side of History
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 10 History is the inevitable result of the passage of time. History is...
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Xi Jinping Looks to China’s Future
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 9 October 2022 will be remembered by chroniclers of the twenty-first century...
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Peaches and Immortality
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 8 Autumn has arrived. A crispness is in the air. The days are getting shorter,...
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