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Advice to Chinese bar owners in Italy: Turn on the lights!
Chinese immigrants are leaving behind the factory life and opening up bars across Spain and Italy. What do the Chinese know about running bars? Coffee and wine are a way of life here in Europe. Can an immigrant be a part of this scene here in Europe?
Chinese recruited for war had secret passage through Canada
YPRES, Belgium — Under pristine, white tombstones in the British military cemeteries dotting the landscape throughout Belgium and northern France, the graves of thousands of Chinese labourers can be found. You just have to know where to look.
The Dreaded Saturday Morning Ritual
It’s Saturday morning in Rotterdam and I find myself at a place I once dreaded as a child: Chinese school.
Buried in Chinese characters…
I’m sorry for my absence. I made it a priority to blog when I first arrived in Hong Kong. But things started to get busy, as I signed up for two volunteer projects – one ...
Museum of Chinese in America finds new home
by SUZANNE MA (Associated Press Writer) NEW YORK (AP) — In cramped tenementlike quarters in Chinatown, staff at the Museum of Chinese in America had to be careful not to step on any schoolchildren ...
Chinese school in China
A Newsweek article this month criticizes Chinese language programs for foreigners in China, describing a money-grabbing program based on old fashioned Confucius-style teaching methods (i.e. ME, teacher, YOU underling student), outdated textbooks and an emphasis ...
On Speaking Chinese at Home, a Pulitzer, and more..
Earlier this month, when sister-brother team Tammy and Victor Jih won The Amazing Race, I was cheerleading for them, dancing in my room, in my pajamas, in my small NYC apartment. In the 14th season ...