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  • My Father’s Soccer Jerseys

    By Chase Richter, Student in the Advanced Chinese Class, Boston College

    I slowly looked through my childhood closet. I saw old toys, old books and childhood clothes, but I was only looking for a comfortable T-shirt. Suddenly I saw a bunch of soccer jerseys, and in that moment I remembered an important part of my childhood that I had forgotten. When I was growing up, my Dad would travel around the world, from East to West. The business trips were not that long, usually from two to three weeks. Every country that he visited he would buy a soccer jersey for me. As I looked at these jerseys, I realized they represented my father’s eternal support.
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    My father and I at a rugby game last summer.
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  • Mylovetea Tea Poetry Strawberry Plunking Festival Invites You

    By Changhong Zhang, bostonese.com

    Boston, June 19, 2015, — Dr. Tea from MyLoveTea welcomes you to the Tea Poetry and Strawberry Picking Festival this Saturday!

    See you at 10:00 am, June 20, Verrill Farm, 11 Wheeler Road, Concord, MA, 01742.

    This Saturday falls upon May 5 on Lunar Calendar, the Chinese Poet Day in memory of the great poet Qu Yuan (342 B.C. — 278 B.C.).
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  • South Cove Manor Breakfast Seminar to Be Held on June 25

    By Yue Guan, bostonese.com

    Boston, June 18, 2015, — The June South Cove Manor breakfast seminar will take place on June 25, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. at Mass Pike Towers Community Room, 324 Tremont St. Boston, MA 02126. Please call Terry Yin at (203)-893-7963 for more information. Food and refreshments will be provided during the seminar. This event is totally free and open to public.
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    Dr. Cheng-Chieh Chuang presents at a South Cove Manor health seminar for elders on March 26 at Mass Pike Towers (Courtesy of Terry Yin.)
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  • Red Thread — My Stories of Adopting Two Daughters from China

    (Note: Ms. Taylor delivered this speech about her new book Red Thread at the Yiwen Club in Nowton, Mass. on June 7, 2015)

    By Virginia Ross Taylor

    Thank you, Zeyang, for inviting me, and thanks to all of you for coming today to hear about The Red Thread, or Hong Si Xian. I am especially grateful to Harry Chen, whose essential roles in this book process have included translator and agent. The families of Zeyang Wang and Harry Chen have been very important to my family for more than a decade.
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    Ms. Taylor (right) and Xiaoyang Chen, president of Yiwen Club, pose for a picture(photos provided to bostonese.com).
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  • Children Helping Children Raises $1,500 for Nepal Earthquake Relief

    Boston, June 16, 2015, — The Wellesley Community Center hosted Children Helping Children (CHC)’s 2015 Annual End-Of-Year party on Saturday, June 13. Dozens of students and parents attended from local communities the party.
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    Students pose for a group picture at the party (photos provided to bostonese.com).
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  • Peking Alumni Association Leads in Time Trials at Boston Dragon Festival

    By Xinming Li, bostonese.com

    Boston, June 13, 2015, — Boston is packed by Boston Pride paraders, Red Sox Fans and dragon boat racers of the 36th Boston Hong Kong Dragon Festival this afternoon. Peking Alumni Association finished the time trials with the best average time of 2:43.9 among the eight teams in the Alumni group.
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    Peking Alumni Association dragon boat team pose for a picture(file photo).
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  • Autobiography From Tsinghua to M.I.T. to Be Released

    Boston, June 12, 2015, — Arrived in Boston to peruse graduate studies in Oct. 1942, Prof. Shih-Ying Lee has stayed in the great Boston area for over 70 years. In the autobiography titled From Tsinghua to M.I.T. — My Journey from Education to Entrepreneurship, published by Boston Bilingual Media & Publishing Inc., Prof. Lee recalled his family history, his undergraduate studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing and in Kunming, and his life in the USA over past 100 years.
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    Prof. Chen (left) and Mr. and Mrs. Lee pose for a picture (file photo).
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  • Belly Button Challenge: China’s New Social Media Craze

    Beijing, June 12, 2015, (ECNS) — Can you touch your belly button with your hand by reaching around the back of your body? The challenge has become an addictive trend on the Internet as women try hard to twist their bodies to complete the feat and show how slim they are, Nanjing-based Modern Express reported.
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    Chinese speed skating player Zhang Hong performs touching her belly button with her hand from around the back. (Photo/Sina Weibo)
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  • “The SAT Guy” Neil Chyten Talks About the New SAT and the Common Core

    By Xinming Li, bostonese.com

    Newton, Mass., June 10, 2015, — If you are in the same business for over 30 years, you probably think there is not much new material to be excited about. This is certainly not the case for Mr. Neil Chyten, who founded Chyten Educational Services in 1984. Author of many SAT/ACT books, Neil Chyten is well known in the test prep business as “the SAT guy” who often stays up well past midnight to write these books.
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    Neil Chyten (right) and students of Chyten Educational Services (photo by Xinming Li).
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  • BCPA Photographer Takes You to the Wild Africa

    By Xinming Li, bostonese.com

    Boston, June 8, 2015, — Ms. Feng Chai is a member of Boston Chinese Photographers Association (BCPA). She shared her experiences and photos of traveling to Africa at the GBCCA Yiwen Club lecture in Newton in the evening of June 7.
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    National bird of Kenya: lilac-breasted roller (all photos by Feng Chai).
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