April 25, 2025 | Vol. 54, Issue 8
Chinese Version 繁体 / 简体中文版 首頁

The only bilingual Chinese-English Newspaper in New England

Menu
Featured
Eddie Ahn Draws From His Life as an ‘Advocate’: Artist Chats About Creating Graphic Novel Vietnamese Americans Tell Story of Diaspora in Own Words at 50-Year Anniversary Event Chinatown Eatery Owner Speaks Out Editorial: These Two Judgments Are Worth Reading ‘No One Can Walk It For You’ – Iranian-American Haleh Liza Gafori to Appear in Hub to talk about Her Translation Life

Day: May 13, 2023

0

Parking Squeeze in Chinatown, Residents Say They Blame Construction, City Restrictions

by Wanheng Jiang

Boston’s Chinatown has always been a crowded community with a small number of residential parking spaces and a large number of residents with cars. Now the parking problem has been made worse — and more costly — by a string of construction projects and parking restrictions that have made it impossible for some residents to park after a long day’s work. “Sometimes it takes me more than an hour to find a parking space,” said Kang Qiang Mai, an Uber […]

0

Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center Legal Workshop: Wills and Trusts

by guest

Have you ever been confused about how to properly distribute your estate to your family, or have you never thought about the distribution of property? Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age was honored to hold a legal workshop on “Wills and Trusts” on April 5th in Hong Lok House Activity Center, Boston’s Chinatown (25 Essex St., Boston, MA 02111). Senior lawyers were invited to help the elderly. The speakers were Peter Bellotti, Joe Markey and Julia Hogan from Bellotti Law Group. […]

0

The Queen of Nuclear Physics: Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu

by Kristen Si

There aren’t many universal household names amongst the storied history of physicists since the early 20th century. Stephen Hawking distilled his ideas into A Brief History of Time, Albert Einstein cemented his role in history with his theory of relativity, and Guglielmo Marconi pioneered the means by which radio transmissions were transmitted. J. Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi were two nuclear physicists who worked on the groundbreaking Manhattan Project which produced the first nuclear weapons. One name that’s conspicuously absent […]

0

Meet Chulan Huang, Mayor Wu’s Chinatown Neighborhood Liaison

by Sampan Staff

Born in China, I was raised in Boston’s Chinatown. The Chinatown neighborhood has been my home all my life. With myself and my little sister both proud alumni of Boston Public Schools right from kindergarten to 12th grade, especially having Josiah Quincy Elementary School as part of this journey, the Chinatown community has become a part of me. My joys of growing up included playing basketball at the Castle Square courts and Wang YMCA, and exploring every corner of the […]

0

Running For Community, Honor, and Culture: Asian Americans and the Boston Marathon

by Wanheng Jiang

Editor’s Note: In honor of AAPI Month, Sampan presents the first of two video essays produced by guest correspondents from Boston University. The second will appear in our May 26 issue. Meghan Irons, Sampan Guest Editor, provides the capsule summary below. Every year of the running of the Boston Marathon there are stories to tell — stories about the runners, their sacrifices, and the history of their journeys. But often one thing gets overshadowed — the Asian American legacy in […]

404 Not Found

404 Not Found

nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)