January 24, 2025 | Vol. 54, Issue 2

The only bilingual Chinese-English Newspaper in New England

Leisure

Samurai Summer II: The exciting festival returns to Boston

Filmmakers fight for inspiration. Directors dream and build their vision for the screen but each is influenced. Whether it is by a person or a culture, everyone is sparked by another work, and the Coolidge Theatre is showing just how much Japan has influenced film with a dazzling line up in their Samurai Summer II. This sequel is a carefully planned follow up to the debut in 2021. Created as a celebration of their 30th anniversary, the Coolidge Theatre began […]

Meeting Our Neighbors at the Chinatown Summer Ice Cream Social

Tufts University Government and Community Relations hosted an Ice Cream Social in the neighborhood on the Health Sciences Campus in Chinatown on July 21st. It was a great opportunity to beat the heat and meet our neighbors. This reporter had the opportunity to interview Liza Perry, Deputy Director, Tufts University Government and Community Relations, about the past, present, and future of Tufts University’s role in the Chinatown community.  What initiatives are you hoping to launch after the summer’s over? We […]

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The August Moon Festival 2022: What’s Happening, Where, and When

The Chinese August Moon festival is traditionally celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar. It is believed that the roundness of the moon represents the reunion of family in Chinese minds. For over 2000 years the usually three day celebration has been a time for a post-Autumn harvest celebration giving thanks to the gods for the blessings of hard work and family. Foods served include mooncakes, pumpkin, river snails, taro, wine fermented with […]

Thank You, Mr. Nixon: stories Gish Jen’s fiction looks at the complicated 50 year legacy of China/U.S. normalized relations

Going back to 1949, according to history.state.gov, the U.S.Ambassador had met with Communist Ambassadors to discuss U.S. recognition of the newly declared (as of October 1, 1949) PRC (People’s Republic of China.) Had Mao not declared his intention to side with the Soviet Union, recognition could have come much earlier than 1972. The United States stayed out of the Chinese Civil War, even though “the Truman Administration was prepared to abandon the Nationalists and allow the Communists to take over […]

Japanese Breakfast and Mitski: Two Asian American Musicians Expanding the Conversation on Representation in Popular American Culture

What is ‘indie rock’? Is it truly free from the restraints of corporate record label mandates, or is it simply the audio equivalent of a finely assembled glossy fashion spread in a magazine? Commerce usually likes to think it can manage the tastes and inclinations of the record-buying public, but  in recent years some artists have challenged and expanded the pre-conceived notions of genre conventions that have been long populated (and dictated) by white people. Japanese Breakfast and Mitski are […]

Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Asian Cultural Appropriation

Comic book fans are an insistent subgroup of art aficionados. Some might go so far as to say they are belligerent. They covet elements of their heroes; Superman’s cape, Captain America’s shield, Spiderman’s mask, as if they are talisman objects of veneration. They hang objects on their walls, wear costumes during Halloween, don the same outfits at Comic Conventions, and blur the lines between a preoccupation and religious observation. Where faith has always depended on a creation myth to explain […]

When Everything Happens at Everywhere, All at Once

When the Daniels started writing their script six years ago, no one would’ve thought that a movie centering on a Chinese American immigrant family would be marketable. But it did. Ever since its release, the movie“Everything Everywhere All at Once” became a phenomenon and a hit among audiences, critics, and box offices. On Rotten Tomatoes, both ratings from the Tomatometer and the audience reached 97%. And on April 5, the movie has officially become the highest-rated movie of all time […]

Multiple Oscar Nominee “Flee”: A Review

This year’s Academy Award ceremony will involve an unprecedented situation — the opportunity for a single feature to be considered “Best” in 3 separate categories: International; Animated; and Documentary. That film is the Danish production titled “Flee”, and the attention that it has received is certainly deserved. The true story presented in the movie is that of a now-middle-aged man , who was eventually (and very eventfully) able to be resettled in Denmark after many grueling and perilous years of […]

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Bubbles: It’s America’s New Cup of Tea

Asia has a long history of drinking tea. But one style of tea has long been bubbling above the other vareties — and taking the global market by storm. Originating in Taipei in the 1980s, bubble tea made its way to the United States in the 1990s. It became extremely popular within the Taiwanese American community on the West Coast. Shops began opening up all over California, becoming well known with the surrounding Asian American communities. But how did it […]

COVID travel rules impacts spring festival festivities

Covid Rules Make Travel Home During Spring Festival Impossible for Many

Travelers from China and the United States were yet again forced to cancel their holiday travel plans during the Chinese New Year, after many flights were suspended between the two countries, leaving families and loved ones separated, workers in jeopardy of losing their jobs, and would-be revelers feeling burned yet again. Spring Festival, known as the Chinese New Year, is one of the most solemn traditional festivals in Chinese culture. It symbolizes beliefs and culture that have been practiced in […]

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