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  • 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 the Chung Scholarship and felt very honored to receive this award. I never knew that my hard work throughout my life would finally pay off. A quick summary of my background, I am Victor Liang, 19, and currently at Northeastern University studying Computer Engineering.
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    Victor Liang (left) receives the Chung Scholarship at CHSNE’s annual meeting on Spet. 24, 2014.
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  • 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 few Chinese athletes with international following. Her fans will miss her fighting spirit on the court and also her sense of humor during interviews.)

    【编者注：2014年9月19日，两届大满贯女单冠军得主、32岁的李娜在新浪微博以及Facebook上发布了因膝伤退役的中英文告别信。回顾李娜的职业生涯，她是中国球员中首位捧起女双、女单冠军奖杯的一位，同时也是唯一一位获得大满贯女单冠军的亚洲球员。出生于武汉，李娜毕业于华中科学大学新闻系，是为数不多的拥有众多国际粉丝的中国运动员之一。她的粉丝们不仅难忘李娜在球场上勇于拼搏的精神，富有个性的球风，还会永远记得比赛之后李娜在接受记者采访时的风趣幽默。】
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    上图：李娜在2014澳网第二轮比赛中（资料图片）。
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  • 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 and their descendants. A common U.S. stereotype is that Chinese Americans are a “model minority” in a nation of diverse ethnicities. That perception may seem flattering. But for many Chinese Americans, it’s an offensive label, one that they have been trying to dispel for decades.
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    Cambridge, Mass. City Councilor Leland Cheung criticizes the Model Minority stereotype at a Boston Forward Foundation meeting (photo by David Li).
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  • 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 I will do not with the view of training the focus of this talk on my life’s chronology but to touch on a few events which can be illustrative of what I consider to be important in my life.
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    Dr. Gerald Chan (file photo).
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  • 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 beauty and the generosity of his soul. He influenced every major collection of Asian Art in the United States (both museums and private collections). He instigated the return of artifacts back to China and his primary charitable cause (which he helped establish) was the Chinese Heritage Art Foundation, based in Hong Kong and dedicated to restoring Ming and Qing dynasty structures in Huangshan, a city in central China with a trove of neglected architectural masterworks.
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    Prof. Wang Fang Yu and Mr. Robert Ellsworth (file photo).
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  • 长江诗草：飞逝的时光雕刻万物 / Flying Times Cut Everything

    作者：伍刚 / By Wu Gang

    【伍刚先生为中国广播网副总编，于8月底在结束哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院的访学工作之后回到北京，9月初回湖北老家探亲。】
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    上图：在湖北荆州市晶威公馆看日出（伍刚 摄）。
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  • 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).
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    Group picture at the party (photo by Bo Yang).
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  • 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 Taiwan. It has great importance that the issue on servicing the tourists from Mainland China to Taiwan by professional Chinese speaking tour guides.

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  • 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 as a result of being later-comer to this continent.
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    Hearing on SCA-5 at Cupertino City Hall on March 17, 2014 (file photo).
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  • 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 many others who take it for granted.
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