Features

October 16, 2020 0

Bilingual Myth Buster Series: “I think emotions are the same in Chinese and English – angry is still angry, right?”

by guest

By Shirley Huang, speech-language pathologist and bilingual researcher (黄文思) When my sister and I were little we used to get into a lot of trouble. We cut the carpet in our bedrooms because we thought it would grow like grass. We took turns using the washing machine to try to wash ourselves, like we did our clothes. We melted chocolate bars in a microwave until they exploded everywhere, because we wanted to drink hot chocolate. In these moments, my mother […]

October 16, 2020 0

What do you do when stuck overseas as a green card holder?

by guest

By Yu Sin Mok, Paralegal at Greater Boston Legal Services “Because of the pandemic, I have been stuck in China for five months already. I don’t know when I can come back because the flights keep getting cancelled,” my client Ms. Huang told me. “Will I lose my green card if I am out of the country for more than six months?” We hear this question often on the Asian Outreach Unit phone line at Greater Boston Legal Services, where […]

October 16, 2020 0

Harmonious

by guest

By a 22 year old female from Boston, MA I grew up with my stepfather. He was a violent, abusive pedophile. As a result, this damaged my self-esteem. I felt like nothing I did was good enough. I was the invisible kid in my class, because I really can live without saying a word for three months. I feel that I am a “good person,” and yet my mother hates me for not having a back bone. Anyone can make […]

October 16, 2020 0

Preserving Chinese culture through ‘Kung Fu’ – the origin of Boston’s Eastern US Kung Fu Federation

by Carey Lin

Arguably the biggest spectacle of any Chinese celebration is perhaps the acrobatic lion dance and martial arts demonstrations. Each school demonstrates techniques that have been taught, learned, and passed down for generations. Colloquially referred to as Chinese kung fu, “officially it is actually called the national sport, ‘國術’,” said Dr. Paul Kwan, Associate Professor of Medical Education at Tufts. In the U.S., kung fu was popularized in the 1970s after the initial successes in Hong Kong in the 50s and […]

October 16, 2020 0

Bilingual Myth Buster Series: “I think emotions are the same in Chinese and English—angry is still angry, right?”

by guest

By Shirley Huang (黄文思), speech-language pathologist and bilingual researcher (請點這裡閱讀英文版) When my sister and I were little we used to get into a lot of trouble. We cut the carpet in our bedrooms because we thought it would grow like grass. We took turns using the washing machine to try to wash ourselves, like we did our clothes. We melted chocolate bars in a microwave until they exploded everywhere, because we wanted to drink hot chocolate. In these moments, my […]

October 16, 2020 0

Mayor talks flu season, eviction moratorium, immigrant services

by Christine Mui

Mayor Walsh reaffirmed his support in favor of the preliminary injunction blocking U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) fee increases, during an immigrant-serving media roundtable on Thursday, October 1. He also provided updates on housing stability and COVID-19 cases, as flu season starts. The roundtable was hosted by the Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement (MOIA) and facilitated by its director Yusufi Vali, with guest presentations from Rita Nieves, Interim Executive Director of the Boston Public Health Commission, and Katie Forde, […]

October 2, 2020 0

Inside the fight to end deportations of Southeast Asian immigrants

by Shira Laucharoen

When Saray Im received a letter in the mail saying that he would have to be detained and deported by the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, he was speechless. He had received a similar notice in March 2019, when he had reported to the detention center in Burlington, and he dreaded having to relive that experience. If he was deported, he wondered, how would he help pay his family’s rent and support his wife and children? The morning of […]

September 4, 2020 0

Empty Bamboo Girl 9/4

by Carey Lin

August 21, 2020 0

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) […]

August 21, 2020 0

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 […]

404 Not Found