Moose or Caribou?
Two days ago, I started getting hate mail from taxidermists, hunters and self-described animal experts. One e-mail came from as far away as Australia. When a large animal bust reportedly fell off the wall of a Lower East Side restaurant and struck a woman on the head, many press reports identified it as that of...
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 as they taught a class about the role Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad. For years, they dreamed...
Cold Shower.
The news keeps getting worse. Riots in Xinjiang continue. Bloody, bloody fights and brutal killings continue to erupt between Han and Uighur. People are dying on both sides and I think the masses don’t even know why they’re fighting. Issues involving discrimination that range from Han and Uighur competing for good jobs, to restrictions imposed on...
父母亲常常为子女作出牺牲
I’m going home this weekend to visit my parents. The International Herald Tribune published this op-ed today. I often think about how hard my parents worked so my brother and I could have a good life. Chinatown – 唐人街 By PETER ENG HONG KONG — She’s an immigrant of the most traditional, stubborn sort, my...
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