Articles for Chinese Descent

Number of Chinese scientists leaving US increasing yearly
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Number of Chinese scientists leaving US increasing yearly

China Daily  

Scientists of Chinese descent in the United States have been leaving the country because of "pull factors" from China and the "push factor" of the China Initiative of 2018, according to a major research study published in an American scientific journal. Also, a brief on the study, published in July by the Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions, concluded …

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Opinion: Why my Taiwanese American identity has become more complicated
1 year, 8 months ago

Opinion: Why my Taiwanese American identity has become more complicated

LA Times  

When I was young, I visited Taiwan every summer. And while no one in North Carolina could pronounce my name, being Taiwanese American wasn’t so unusual once we moved to Rowland Heights, a suburb in the San Gabriel Valley, where many could trace their heritage to Taiwan. Ironically, though, many older Taiwanese Americans supported Trump because of the skepticism he …

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How the Transcontinental railroad forever changed the US
2 years ago

How the Transcontinental railroad forever changed the US

BBC  

How the Transcontinental railroad forever changed the US ClassicStock/Alamy How the Transcontinental railroad forever changed the US It spread Anglo-European culture across the nation and caused trade to flourish, but the story of the Chinese labourers who built the track has largely been forgotten. Instead, in the 1860s, teams of Chinese labourers blasted through the granite and painstakingly hand-chiselled 15 …

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A California festival once featured townspeople in yellowface. Will its demise bring healing?
2 years, 3 months ago

A California festival once featured townspeople in yellowface. Will its demise bring healing?

LA Times  

Walking the oceanfront footpath toward the fabled fish-packing warehouses of Cannery Row, Randy Sabado stops at a historical mural. “You can’t even tell they’re people.” The inequality reflected in these portrayals is all the more disturbing to Sabado, who is Filipino-Chinese by heritage, because Chinese immigrants were evicted from the Pacific Grove settlement shown in the mural after a mysterious …

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Eileen Gu is the poster child for a new type of Chinese athlete. But one wrong move could send her tumbling
2 years, 11 months ago

Eileen Gu is the poster child for a new type of Chinese athlete. But one wrong move could send her tumbling

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN — At this year’s Beijing Winter Olympics, the face of China’s sporting dreams is undeniably American. “Snow princess Gu Ailing set to shine at home Olympics,” read one headline in state-run media Xinhua, referring to Gu by her Chinese name. “Nice to see you take all your USA successes and accomplishments to China and not represent where …

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The love and longing of the Chinese-Indians
4 years, 5 months ago

The love and longing of the Chinese-Indians

Live Mint  

On 17 March, 41-year-old musician Francis Yee Lepcha was on a train back to Kolkata from an abruptly shortened trip to Puri. As third-generation Chinese-Indians, Chang and Francis appear to have a lot in common—they were both born in India and trace their ancestry to China, they have both deviated from the Chinese tradition of continuing the family occupation, they …

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US museum honors designer of Chinese descent
5 years, 9 months ago

US museum honors designer of Chinese descent

China Daily  

Designer Vivienne Hu greets the audience after presenting her fall and winter collection during the New York Fashion Week on Feb 13. Chinese American fashion designer Vivienne Hu was presented the Visionary Artist Award by the University of Southern California Pacific Asia Museum recently for her creative contribution to Asia-Pacific cultural exchanges. And she worked as a financier at a …

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