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Oct 30, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | DongDong Yang |Meng Zhao |Yu Shi
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
sampan.org | DongDong Yang
Josiah Quincy Upper School Head Richard K. Chang, and Chinatown community members and city officials on Sept. 12 celebrated the ribbon cutting of the new Josiah Quincy Upper School in Chinatown. The school, serving grades 6-12, opened for the 2024-2025 school year with modern facilities including a media center, fitness center, and band rooms, all aimed at helping the Boston students reach their full potential.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
sampan.org | DongDong Yang
The mid-autumn festival, also known as the August Moon festival, is often celebrated with mooncakes – round pastries with sweet or savory fillings that symbolize the full moon. But the tradition of hand crafting the delicacy is slowly changing, say some pastry chefs, who are keeping the tradition alive locally. “The most difficult part of making mooncakes is cooking the syrup, which needs to be prepared a month in advance. It’s a very skillful process.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
sampan.org | DongDong Yang
It is no secret that for years Asian Americans had been sidelined in Hollywood, facing discrimination and disrespect. You might get a brief appearance of a short Asian nerd with the smell of “kimchi” in his lunchbox in school. And the typical Asian character in a Hollywood film was usually never played by an Asian actor, but by a white actor who played an Asian role.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
sampan.org | DongDong Yang
It is no secret that for years Asian Americans had been sidelined in Hollywood, facing discrimination and disrespect. You might get a brief appearance of a short Asian nerd with the smell of “kimchi” in his lunchbox in school. And the typical Asian character in a Hollywood film was usually never played by an Asian actor, but by a white actor who played an Asian role. Famously, Mickey Rooney played an especially offensive Asian caricature in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” This […]
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
sampan.org | DongDong Yang
Wearing T-shirts reading “STOP ASIAN HATE,” a group of residents and activists arranged candles in the shape of a heart and displayed a portrait of Vincent Chin with his name written in Chinese and “May 18, 1955 — June 23, 1982” last month under the Chinatown Gate. Wilson Lee, co-founder of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance Boston Lodge and the Chinese American Heritage Foundation, said he and his wife Esther Zee Lee have organized a vigil for Chin every June 23 for six years.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
sampan.org | DongDong Yang
The Asian American Civic Association (AACA), publisher of the Sampan newspaper, celebrated its 57th anniversary with an annual gala on June 14 at the University of Massachusetts Club in Boston. This year’s theme was the “Gala of Dreams.”Among the many highlights of the night, Gov. Maura Healey was presented with the Dream Maker Award in recognition of her dedication to making Massachusetts a place of equity, opportunity, and inclusion.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
sampan.org | DongDong Yang
Chinese director Yang Qiu presented his first feature film “Some Rain Must Fall “ at this year’s Tribeca Festival in New York. The film depicts the story of Cai, a mother and housewife who deeply values her family, but whose life loses track and spirals out of control after an unexpected accident. The film received the Encounters Special Jury Award at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival and premiered at the festival’s International Narrative Competition.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
sampan.org | DongDong Yang
A school bus carrying around 40 students and six faculty members from the Josiah Quincy Upper School in Chinatown on a field trip went up in flames on June 17 around 3 p.m. while traveling through Dorchester, sending several students to the hospital. “It was a traumatic experience for all of them,” Richard Chang, principal of the Josiah Quincy School, told the Sampan after the fire.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
sampan.org | DongDong Yang
When it comes to tapping into a large number of educated workers, many of whom are bilingual, Massachusetts appears to be missing out. Big time.That’s a takeaway from a new report on the some 240,000 foreign-educated immigrants in the state – 106,000 of whom hold a bachelor’s degree and 134,000 of whom have completed at least some grad school.Many of these immigrants earn less than their U.S.-educated peers and work in jobs that fail to fully use their skills. Some […]
