April 25, 2025 | Vol. 54, Issue 8
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Month: August 2020

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“I thought I was in control, but I wasn’t.”

by guest

33 year-old Chinese woman from Worcester lives with intermittent psychosis and schizophrenia I thought I was in control, but I wasn’t. The gripping schizophrenia and the intermittent psychosis were front and center in my experiences with everyday life. They were consuming the way I experienced reality, and they were calling the shots. I thought my life was going along perfectly fine in my early 20’s when I realized that I had mental illness. In the years after graduating from college, it […]

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Taiwan appoints new Director-General Jonathan Sun to Boston office

by Carey Lin

Jonathan Sun is the new Director-General of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Boston. He arrived in Boston on July 28 after spending the past four years in Taiwan. Prior to that, Sun had spent six years in New York and another six in Washington D.C. As the new Director-General of TECO Boston, Sun hopes to continue the work of his predecessors to strengthen the ties between Taiwan and New England. “I believe my predecessors have done whatever […]

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Reggie Wong Park brings local sports teams together during August Moon Tournament

by Lydia Lowe

September 2019, before the Covid pandemic shut the world down, was the 75th annual North American Chinese Invitational Volleyball Tournament, involving 162 teams from across the continent who gathered to compete in the traditional Chinese American sport of 9-man volleyball. Last year’s tournament was held in Toronto, but in 2024, the tournament will come home to Boston’s Chinatown. 9-man Volleyball History 9-man volleyball is a team sport utilizing nine players per side and a slightly larger (10 x 20 meter) […]

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Mary Yick, a pioneering restaurateur of Chinatown who fought discrimination

by Richard Auffrey

From restaurant owner to blackjack dealer, Mary Yick, like two other Chinatown restaurateurs, Ruby Foo and Anita Chue, was another pioneering woman in the Chinatown’s restaurant industry, owning the Tiki Hut restaurant on Tyler Street. Mary Yick was born around 1934 and made her first appearance in a local newspaper, the Boston Herald, in November 1939. At age 5, she and two other young Chinese girls were photographed walking in a parade in Chinatown, part of the first rice bowl party for war […]

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50 years later, a movement is afoot to restore the Chinatown Sampan mural as organizers reach out for support

by Nancy Lo

What lies forgotten or not known by many is the mural of a Sampan boat that was painted in 1970 in Chinatown for the celebration of the first August Moon Festival. The mural was covered up 10 years ago during the renovation of the adjacent public park, named after community activist Mary SooHoo. This vinyl wrap was taken from a tiny 14th Century Chinese traditional landscape painting on display at the Museum of Fine Arts. From what I can tell, […]

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Chinatown Master Plan 2020 covers a broad spectrum of future development and community needs

by Lydia Lowe

The Chinatown Master Plan Committee released Master Plan 2020 with two recent launch events, involving more than a hundred participants from the community, local officials, and other interested stakeholders. Chinatown Master Plan 2020 is a 91-page report, with English and Chinese language versions, that includes data snapshots, updated community development priorities, and identification of four “opportunity areas” where development could support community health and stability. Drafted out of a year-and-a-half planning process involving residents, small business owners, community organizations, and […]

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Learning English online during a pandemic poses challenges for students and programs

by AdenM

The coronavirus is reshaping every level of education as online learning has largely replaced traditional classrooms from daycare to universities. With back-to-school quickly coming, students, parents, and school employees are debating what a return will look like with physical distancing and safety guidelines. Many are also questioning the sustainability, equity, and effectiveness of online learning. Prior to the pandemic, online classes were generally a valid and viable alternative to in-person offerings. However, their sudden necessity and ubiquity demand that everyone […]

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Youth voices

by Kenny Weng

From High School to College: A Journey to the Future With the upcoming fall semester getting closer, colleges are hastily making plans to accommodate students during the Covid-19 pandemic. As some states see rises in Covid-19 cases, colleges are changing a fundamental part of the college experience: the ability to be on campus. From work opportunities to classrooms to extracurricular activities, the upcoming semester still has many questions and concerns about the changes and plans in moving forward after the […]

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End of semester essay: Writing your life story one page at a time

by Christopher John Stephens

One of the more difficult assignments in my English classes comes near the end of each semester. Sometimes I call it a “transformative” essay, other times “reflective,” and other times a standard “autobiography.” In three pages, students write the simple story of their lives. Who were they yesterday? Who are they now? Who do they plan to be tomorrow? In my ESOL classes, the assignment takes a different variation. What was their relationship with written and spoken English as a […]

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Ask Dr. Hang

by Hang Ngo

Mother struggles with son’s gay sexuality My son just told me that he is gay and we have been fighting about this. I think that he is young and confused, but he said that he’s known that he is gay for many years and that he is 20 years old, so he thinks he knows who he is. Did I do something wrong to make my son gay? How can I change him so he is not gay anymore? I […]

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