Identity crisis: on being Chinese and Canadian
What does it mean to belong somewhere? Does citizenship and a passport help define who you are? Is your identity established by how others see you? Or do you decide that for yourself?
I began seeking the answers to my questions when I first moved to China in 2007.
It’s a Hard Knock Life
12 hour days? 500 Euros a month? Life in Europe isn't easy for the average Chinese migrant worker.
When in Rome… eat Chinese?
I never thought I'd be that kind of tourist. But here I am in Italy, doing exactly what I think Chinese immigrants shouldn't do when they are in a foreign country: Speak only to other Chinese and eat only in Chinese restaurants.
Please help support my book project!!
I'm going on a road trip. But it's not just any road trip. I am setting off across Europe to meet Chinese migrants in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Hungary. But I need your help!!
Qingtian
Qingtian 青田 is mountainous county in Zhejiang 浙江 Province, 300 miles south of Shanghai. For more than 200 years, its people have sought to escape a life of wretched poverty. So they went out. Today, more than 200,000 people – amounting to half of Qingtian's current population – live in more than 120 countries around...
Masked man was probably helped by human smuggler: lawyer
Old white guy boards plane. Goes to toilet. Emerges mid-flight as young Asian Man. That’s the story that’s been all over the news around the world. And everyone’s been asking ‘why’? The Air Canada flight took off from Hong Kong and landed in Vancouver. The man has asked the Canadian government for refugee status. PostMedia...
Part of what a humane society does is recognize past injustices and address them.”
Is “sorry” better late than never? Last week, the California legislature apologized to the state’s Chinese-American community for racist laws barring Chinese from owning land or property, marrying whites, working in the public sector and testifying against whites in court. That was back in the mid-19th century during California’s Gold Rush. About 25,000 Chinese crossed the...
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