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Lunar new year nomenclature and the multicultural metropolis
On Sunday I stopped by the Monterey Park Lunar New Year Festival with my family. For two days, the organizers blocked off several blocks of bustling Garvey Avenue to make room for street food vendors,...
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Lunar new year link round-up
Wishing everyone a happy and healthy year of the snake! 10 essential Chinese New Year dishes Trying to cash in on Chinese New Year – Chinese sneakers from Western companies Let LGBT groups march in...
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Pork rolls, eyeballs, and char siu bao
Happy end of the weekend/beginning of the workweek, y’all! Here are some Asian food-related links from this past week. We have two foods going mainstream and one that is most definitely not: Aussies...
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Women’s History Month
Here are some links in honor of Women’s History Month (US and Australia) and International Women’s Month (UK). A mother’s struggle Louisa Elizabeth Nichols was 32 years old when, on 24 July 1901, she...
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Elsewhere on the Internet….
Does spying from China make people more suspicious of Chinese Americans? Two South Asian comedians: a Pakistani in Western Australia and a multilingual Indian Québecois Language, immigration, and...
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Not exactly white but Asian enough to be a top model
This post comes from Melbourne-based writer Mabel Kwong‘s blog on Asian Australian issues. Thanks, Mabel, for sharing your insights on Jessica Gomes. We hope to hear more from you on this blog in the...
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Community arts across the Pacific: “The Streets Between Us” and “Zero to Hero”
The Streets Between Us In Los Angeles, an organization I work with has a photography exhibition up at the Chinese American Museum. A number of Chinatown Community for Equitable Development supporters...
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Immigrant small businesses facing gentrification
Earlier today, I had the privilege of touring the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta with one of the area’s biggest boosters, Anna of the blog I Heart Cabramatta. Cabramatta has a huge population of refugees...
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Accents, foreign-ness, and social distance
As an American traveling around Australia, I haven’t encountered any difficulty being understood. Pronounced Rs at the end of syllables and odd Californian vowel sounds don’t faze anyone. Australians...
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Melbourne: Chinese Museum and Immigration Museum
Melbourne is a city of many, many museums. I’ve only been here for a few days, but I’ve already been to seven different museums, from art museums to cultural and natural history museums. Of most...
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