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  • Winners of White House Video Contest, Local High School Students Prepare a Trip of a Lifetime

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    On April 5, twelve teen students from Charlestown High School, most of them immigrated to Boston area with their families from China less than three years ago, will participate in a White House meeting as winners of a video contest. Started as a joint project between Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center(BCNC) and Charlestown High School, the Chinese Immigrant Student Leadership (ChISL) program played a major role in preparing these immigrant students transitioning from timid newcomers in school to leaders of tomorrow.

    Charlestown High School students who participated in the video contest.
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  • Ying Wu’s Vocal Classes Celebrated Year of Dragon with Beautiful Songs

    By David Li, translation by Jun Yang

    On the afternoon and evening of January 28, Ying Wu’s vocal classes held a Chinese New Year’s concert in Hancock United Church of Christ in Lexington, Mass.

    As a special guest, Kristy Lee, New England’s only 24-hour news TV station NECN’s morning news anchor, hosted the concert. The daughter of the Korean-American anchor is also a student of Ms. Ying Wu. Piano accompaniment was by Boston’s renowned pianist David Collins.

    Kristy Lee hosting the concert (photo by Mingwei Li).
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  • “Spring, its softness is disarming and its light comforting” – A Painter’s Note In Spring and Selected Paintings

    By Sophia Yee, painter and poet

    Spring allows me to express myself fully and freely in a dynamic movement of colors,shapes, lines, light and shadows and to capture the essence of the moment and perhaps the light and shadow that raises me from a sinking mood and a dead spirit. Spring speaks in a unique language that I am eager to learn and digest, to succumb to what is necessary in order to have a meaningful dialogue within the framework of the existing time and space. It is my desire to recreate a time and space in the forms of my canvases; to rediscover and reconstruct a new and to retrieve a ground that I am intent to gain. It is also an opportunity to unveil the mystery and to submit to the self to minimize the feeling of longing, losing and belonging and to come to understand the pain, the joy and the dreary.
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  • I’m Living My Dream – An Interview with Jason Shen on Life, Work and Purposeful Life by His Father

    By Anping Shen, ED. D.

    Jason was born in China and went through from pre-­‐school to graduate school in the United States. During his junior year at the Newton North High School, Newton, MA, Jason was selected as a member of the USA National Man’s Junior Gymnastics Team. In 2009, Jason was a co-­‐captain of Stanford Man’s Gymnastics team, which won both the NCAA man’s gymnastics national championship and academic championship titles (the first team in the history of man’s gymnastics to win both titles in the same year). Upon his graduation from Stanford in 2009, he served as Chief Operating Officer for the Stanford Daily newspaper company and then worked as a sales rep for a startup in Silicon Valley. He co-founded an online company (www.ridejoy.com) in San Francisco in May of 2011. He was back visiting his parents recently and talked to his father about his (real) company and passion for a healthy, competitive and purposeful life.


    Jason Shen was competing in a recent triathlon event.

    “You Should Realize That There Is No Point Of Living Your Life to Meet Other People’s Expectation. It’s Not Their Life, It Is MY Life.”
    -­Jason Shen

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  • Chinatown Youth To Sit Outside T-station Protesting Proposed Fare Hike This Friday

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    According to a press release by Chinese Progressive Association (CPA), at 4 PM this Friday, March 23, high school aged members of CPA’s Chinese Youth Initiative and other students in Chinatown will sit outside Tufts New England Medical Center(TNEMC) station to protest the proposed massive fare increases and service cuts by MBTA. They are hoping to raise awareness of this issue that will impact lives of many people who depend on public transportation.

    On March 14, about 50 elder residents in Chinatown protected outside Mass. Transportation Department building on Kneeland street while a meeting on the proposed fare hike was going on. They were joined by over 100 protesters from various other groups. Shi-Ang Yee, president of Chinatown Resident Association(CRA), expressed his outrage about the proposed fare hikes. “Public transportation was neglected by the government for a long time when billions of dollars was spent on the Big Dig. The problem should not be passed on to riders by raising the fare,” he said.

    Members from CPA and CRA were protesting outside state transportation building on March 14.
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  • Zhejiang University Boston Alumni Celebrated Year of Dragon Together

    By David Li, translation by Jia Liu and Junhua Shen

    Located on the banks of the beautiful West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Zhejiang University (ZJU) is one of the finest universities in China. On the afternoon of Feb. 18, 2012, more than 100 Zhejiang University (ZJU) alumni and their relatives attended the ZJU Alumni Association – Boston 2012 Chinese New Year Festival at Cambridge Center for Chinese Culture in Waltham, MA. After sharing delicious dinner, participants listened to several alumni vivid memories of their alma mater and their experiences living in Boston. 89-year-old alumnae, Shugai Zhang, recollected the years of ZJU moving westward when Japan invaded China during World War II, which sparked a strong sense of pride among attendees.

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  • Neighbors and Community Leaders Coming Together at BCNC’s Chinese New Year Banquet and Found-raiser

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC) had its 24th annual Chinese New Year Banquet on March 2 at Empire Garden Restaurant. Over 600 guests who live in or work at Chinatown neighborhood enjoyed a wine and dim sum reception, children’s lion dance by Gund Kwok Cubs, and traditional Chinese New Year banquet.

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  • News Is Sometimes Very Incidental

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    An afternoon planned for running on the soccer field, was turned into handshakes with Olympic champions in a hockey arena, and a news report on the front page.

    Zhao Hongbo and Shen Xue wish the best of our readers at Harvard ice hockey arena(photo by David Li).
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  • Weidong Wang Wins the First Town Wide Election in Lexington as Chinese American

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    On Super Tuesday, March 6, of 2012, Dr. Weidong Wang becomes the first Chinese-American elected officer in town-wide elections in the historical Lexington Mass.


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  • Headmaster of Oak Meadow Montessori School On Education Reform

    By David Li, translated by Alice Liu

    In June 2011, I visited the Oak Meadow Montessori School which is located in the town of Littleton, MA. Although locals from the town know the school very well, they may not be familiar with the history behind it. Dr. Maria Montessori was a distinguished Italian doctor and educator from the late 19th century. Dr. Montessori founded a “multi-sensory learning” teaching system which has had a profound impact on early childhood and elementary education. Schools established based on the Montessori philosophy are called Montessori Schools.

    Headmaster Dave Stettler welcomed me in the entrance of the school, and made a cup of coffee using the coffer machine. He had been headmaster for Oak Meadow for the past six years and would leave for another position soon. In his office, Stettler talked about education philosophy of the Montessori Schools and commented on the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.
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