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Chinese Americans

Posted inEditor's Pick

When Food Is the Only Narrative We Consume

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 8, 2023March 6, 2023

“Chinese culture can’t be made bite-sized for mass consumption.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

How a California Archive Reconnected a New Mexico Family with Its Chinese Roots

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands April 4, 2022October 19, 2022

Amid a surge of anti-Asian hate in America, Aimee Towi Mae Tang, a fourth-generation Chinese New Mexican, wanted to know more about of her own identity and how her family settled in Albuquerque. Born in China and new to Albuquerque himself, journalist Wufei Yu decided to help the Tangs learn more about their history, and […]

Posted inNonfiction

Towards Chinatown

by Melissa Hung August 5, 2019November 4, 2022

Faced with the possibility of losing of her mother, Melissa Hung contemplates another loss — of her mother tongue.

Posted inCrime, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

‘I Saw My Countrymen Marched Out of Tacoma’

by Joy Lanzendorfer February 18, 2019October 19, 2022

It started in Eureka, then it spread. Up and down the Pacific Coast, white mobs turned on Chinese-Americans.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

Assertiveness Training

by Susan Sheu December 1, 2017October 19, 2022

Susan Sheu considers her estrangement from her conservative mom, who tried to teach her to stand up and be heard in a male-dominated world — but not to be too unladylike about it.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women

Assertiveness Training

by Susan Sheu December 1, 2017October 19, 2022

Susan Sheu considers her estrangement from her conservative mom, who tried to teach her to stand up and be heard in a male-dominated world — but not to be too unladylike about it.

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