Category: Column

Learning Chinese and Chasing My Dreams

By Victor Liang, Recipient of the Noreen Chung Scholarship To be able to write, read, and speak Cantonese are the necessary requirements to receive the Chung Scholarship, so what better way to express my ability in Chinese than to write an application essay in Chinese? In Fall of 2013, I became the first recipient of… Continue reading Learning Chinese and Chasing My Dreams

Letter from Li Na / 李娜告别信

(Li Na, two-time Grand Slam champion, announced her retirement in a letter to her fams on Sina Weibo and Facebook on Sept. 19, 2014. Born in Wuhan China, Li Na graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and went on to become Asia’s first Grand Slam champion in 2011. She is one of the… Continue reading Letter from Li Na / 李娜告别信

The ‘Model Minority’ Myth

By Michael Lipin (Michael covers international news for VOA on the web, radio and TV, specializing in the Middle East and East Asia Pacific. Follow him on Twitter @Michael_Lipin.) WASHINGTON — In this segment of VOA’s continuing report on What Americans Think About China, we turn our focus to Chinese immigrants in the United States… Continue reading The ‘Model Minority’ Myth

Gerald Chan — BayHelix Lifetime Achievement Award Speech

Life Science, a Life in Science and is Life Just a Science January 12, 2014 I am most grateful to be bestowed this honor today by such a distinguished group of my compatriots. I gather that as a response to receiving the life-time achievement award, I should say a few words about my life. This… Continue reading Gerald Chan — BayHelix Lifetime Achievement Award Speech

A Tribute to My Godfather Robert Hatfield Ellsworth

A Tribute to My Godfather Robert Hatfield Ellsworth (1929-2014) “I deal only to collect.” By Wang Shaofang, August 10, 2014 Robert Hatfield Ellsworth will be broadly remembered as the single most prominent dealer of Asian antiquities in the 20th century. His range of expertise, foresight, and business acumen were exceeded only by his eye for… Continue reading A Tribute to My Godfather Robert Hatfield Ellsworth

Notes from BBOA Summer Party

By Beatrice Lee, bostonese.com columnist Medford, August 11, 2014, — Some of you didn’t make “THE” party of the year by Boston Beijing Operation Association(BBOA) on Sunday. It’s your loss. Sorry to say that. We had a wonderful time eating(stuff to our faces), chatting(no one was listening to others), singing(wild) and performing(wonderful and astonishing). Group… Continue reading Notes from BBOA Summer Party

A Study of Working Behavior of Tour Guides for Mainland China Tourists

By Ching-Yu Hsieh, National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism The government has actively opened the restriction on the number of tourists from Mainland China to Taiwan since 2008, and lead to the number of group tourists from Mainland China redoubling, and it has replaced Japanese tourists and becomes a large amount of tourists enter… Continue reading A Study of Working Behavior of Tour Guides for Mainland China Tourists

Let the Sun Rise — Refelection on SCA-5

By Xiangming Yu HISTORY provides another different yet extremely important perspective for the wrestling about SCA-5 (Senate Constitution Amendment 5). Just as there is always a woman behind a story, there is always history behind an incident. We respect history, no more than necessary for the sake of our long civilization, nor less than necessary… Continue reading Let the Sun Rise — Refelection on SCA-5

How Immigrants Can Become True American Citizens

By Yukong Zhao, bostonese.com columnist In the last 22 years since I immigrated to the U.S., people often asked me: Why did you come to America? Like many other immigrants, I came to America for a better life. However, it is easy for us to appreciate what a better life means, but not easy for… Continue reading How Immigrants Can Become True American Citizens