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  • History of the Association of Chinese Geneticists in America

    By Andrew TL. Chen, PhD, FACMG; Huanming Yang, PhD

    The Association of Chinese Geneticists in America (ACGA) is a non-profit (501C) organization formed by a group of American geneticists of Chinese ethnicity but its membership is open to individuals of all races and ethnicity. Incorporated in the State of Georgia in 1987, ACGA is supported by membership fees and donations. The Association facilitates the interaction between the American genetics community and their colleagues in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore.
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    Current and former presidents and board of directors in the 2012 annual meeting: left to right–Wai-Yee Chan, Chris Yun Fai Lau, Stephen TS Lam, Lydia P. Chen (Andrew’s wife), Andrew T Chen, Hongyu Zhao, Min-Xin Guan, Harold Chen, Bai-Lin Wu, and Huanming Yang.
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  • The Chinese in America by Otis Gibson

    Otis Gibson (12/8/1826 – 1/25/1889) was an American missionary to China. On April 3, 1855 Gibson and wife set sail from New York Harbor on a clipper ship bound for Shanghai. In 1856, Otis Gibson and his Methodist co-laborers established two churches in the city, namely, Church of the True God (真神堂) and Church of Heavenly Peace (天安堂), which were the first two Methodist churches built in East Asia.
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  • Post Card from Yao Kou Village, China

    By Sophia Yee, bostonese.com columnist

    Our car circling around mountain roads, we were in awe at the passing sights; after about two hours of driving through small villages we finally came to the remote village of Yau Kou (窈口) in the deep mountains. About 100 kilometers from the city of Hangzhou, Yao Kou village is situated in the far west of the town of Fuyang (富阳).
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  • Millions of Broken American Dreams — An Open Letter to the World

    (This letter was written by Swan Lee on behalf of protesters of the Jimmy Kimmel Live TV show.)

    Dear Fair and Righteous Citizens of the World,

    ​We don’t know who you are, but we know you are out there. We are asking for your urgent help. We have been rendered voiceless, powerless, and hopeless by the American mass media and many Americans. The American mass media have lost journalistic ethics and objectivity and have been blatantly and partially defending ABC’s show host, Jimmy Kimmel, who used children to discuss the merits of annihilating all Chinese people for the purpose of evading American government debt owed to Chinese government. This prerecorded skit was broadcast on ABC channel on October 16, 2013, a day that hundreds of millions of us will remember as the most traumatizing and humiliating day in our lives, a day that brought ravages and devastation that we, our parents, and our children, will never fully recover from. The majority of Americans’ indifference and even worsened hostility towards our suffering have kept adding more wounds to our injuries. We have nowhere to go to have the perpetrators and abusers of human beings’ inherent dignity be brought under justice. Now, as our last resort, with the last shred of hope for human compassion that we believe must exist in this world, we ask for your gracious help. You, citizens of the world with a sense of justice and love in your heart, can help hundreds of millions of people, in fact, one fifth of the world’s population, regain their human status and dignity.
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    Protest against ABC at Holocaust Memorial in Boston on Nov. 2, 2013.
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  • 情和理，故乡的荷花——NEUTRAL, A Lotus Flower by Itself

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    情和理
    俞莎菲娅

    我只能在荷花盛开时才醒来
    假如你能熬过那秋未的冷落

    我只有在荷叶飘逸时回乡来
    如果你能越过那深冬的湖面

    醒来时是你这九月的天和意
    回乡时是你这六月的情和容
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  • Photo Journal: New World Trade Center and 9/11 Memorial

    By Luyuan Zhang, bostonese.com

    I was in elementary school in China twelve years ago, and was heart broken when I heard the sad news. On September 12, 2013, I found myself at The National September 11 Memorial in downtown Manhattan, shooting photos all the way from the new World Trade Center (WTC) which is still under construction, to the Memorial Plaza.
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  • Understanding Digital Learning Opportunities at MIT

    By MIT OpenCourseWare News and Information

    Confused about the many digital learning opportunities from MIT?  You’re not alone.  Luckily, with the launch of the new MITx course 2.03x Dynamics and the near simultaneous publication of the new OCW Scholar course 2.003SC Engineering Dynamics, along with the long-available MIT OCW publication of 2.003 Modeling Dynamics and Control I, we have a great opportunity to better understand the spectrum of digital learning opportunities now available from MIT.  These are not exactly the same course in each case (2.03 is a new generation of curriculum replacing 2.003 in the residential program), but they are close enough for purposes of illustration:
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  • The Legends of the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival

    I. The Lady – Chang Er

    The time of this story is around 2170 B.C. The earth once had ten suns circling over it, each took its turn to illuminate to the earth. But one day all ten suns appeared together, scorching the earth with their heat. The earth was saved by a strong and tyrannical archer Hou Yi. He succeeded in shooting down nine of the suns. One day, Hou Yi stole the elixir of life from a goddess. However his beautiful wife Chang Er drank the elixir of life in order to save the people from her husband’s tyrannical rule. After drinking it, she found herself floating and flew to the moon. Hou Yi loved his divinely beautiful wife so much, he didn’t shoot down the moon.

    Note: Chang’e 1 Lunar orbiter was launched to the moon on October 24, 2007. The Chang’e moon satellite, named after Chang Er, will take 3-D images of the moon surface for yearlong. This is the groundwork for the next Lunar Lander (Chang’e  2) project in 2012 , Lunar Sample Return (Chang’e 3) in 2017 and Chinese astronaut on the moon project.

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  • 王家卫《一代宗师》波士顿上映 / The Grandmaster Comes to Boston Cinema

    【波士顿华人双语网综合报道】波士顿美术馆(Museum of Fine Arts)于8月1日至8月25日举办了“王家卫电影展”，并在8月15日举行了《一代宗师》（The Grandmaster）的波士顿首映。《一代宗师》由香港著名导演王家卫执导，梁朝伟、章子怡、张震、宋慧乔等主演，讲述的是一代武术宗师叶问的传奇故事。
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  • Oaklee Sidwell Remembered for Her Loving Spirit

    (Southern Utah girl Oaklee Sidwell passed away after a wind gust picked up the backyard trampoline she was sitting on and sent it flying more than 150 feet.)

    By Sidwell Family

    Our sweet Oaklee Lynn Sidwell, 9, left us on August 14, 2013 in Salt Lake City, after a tragic accident. She was surrounded by all of her loving family as she went back into the arms of her Heavenly Father. She was born July 11, 2004 in Panguitch to Tracy and Desiree Griffin Sidwell, the sister of Tyler and Jordan Sidwell.
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