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  • Department of Education Has Let Asian-American Communities Down Again

    By Organizing Committee, Asian American Coalition

    Short Hills, New Jersey, July 8, 2015, — We are very disappointed to learn that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), U.S. Department of Education has recently dismissed our Administrative Complaint against Harvard University filed on May 15, 2015. Even though our Complaint presented overwhelming evidences indicating that Harvard University has been engaged in continuous and systemic discriminatory practices against Asian-American applicants, OCR chose to dismiss our Complaint citing a procedural ground. The Department of Education has clearly let Asian-American communities down.
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  • When Did WWII Start and How Long Did It Last?

    By Eric Wu, bostonese.com

    As we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII this year, many people are wondering when WWII did start? Answers to this question many depend on which ocean you are looking at.
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    This 1942 USPS stamp commemorates the five-year anniversary of China’s resistance against Japanese invasion(file photo).
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  • General Chen Cheng — WWII Hero Who Defended the Free China

    By Eric Wu, bostonese.com

    Yangtze River and Yellow River are the two longest and most famous rivers in China. They also played vital roles in China’s War of Resistance during WWII. The 1938 Yellow River Flood was created by the Nationalist Government in central China in an attempt to halt the rapid advance of Japanese forces. An estimated 800,000 people in Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces were drowned. The strategy worked to some degree, and Japanese troops, whose initial plan was to occupy the whole China in three months, were forced to move slowly along the Yangtze River from east to west toward Chongqing, the wartime capital of free China.

    In the mid-August 1940, General Chen Cheng deployed five army groups in the sixth war zone, which consisted of 400 thousand troops, to Enshi in Hubei Province, guarding the entrance on the east of Chongqing. Subsequent to the falling of Nanjing and Wuhan, the Japanese Army kept concentrating its main force to break into the China’s wartime capital. In Hunan and Hubei Provinces, which were located on the way to Chongqing, flames of the war had never been put out. The Chinese Army in the sixth war zone had to defend against not only the Japanese Army that was moving to the west, but also another group of Japanese intruders who attempted to break into Sichuan Province along the Yangtze River.
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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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  • Why I Started An Internet Company at Age 50

    I need to feel strongly, to love and to admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.
    –Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

    By Jun Chang, founder of eventdove.com

    I can’t say what it was exactly that made me leave the computer engineering field—a field I had excelled in for over a decade. On paper, it seemed a foolhardy decision. Starting a company was a choice better left to 20-something-year-olds in Silicon Valley. Not a career path for a woman who had just turned 50.
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    Ms. Chang (2nd from left, front row) and her team in Nanjing, China(file photo).
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  • CY Leung: Hong Kong Is “Your Super-connector to China”

    By CY Leung, Chief Executive of Hong Kong

    (Mr. C Y Leung delivered this speech at a luncheon in Cambridge, Mass., hosted by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, New York on May 5, 2015. Representative of bostonese.com attended this luncheon.)

    Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, colleagues,

    Good afternoon. I’m very pleased to be with you today in Boston, my first official visit here, one I’ve been looking forward to for a long time. I am even more interested in visiting Boston when I read, a few weeks ago, that Boston had been named one of the world’s most livable cities in the Mercer 2015 Quality of Living rankings.

    Of course, the people of Boston don’t need me or Mercer to tell them that they’ve got a good thing going: a city renowned for its community spirit; a city long celebrated as an international powerhouse in education; a city fast-emerging as a global business and technology hub.
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  • Why Did I Start Romantic Zumba Club?

    By Man Li, zumba dance instructor

    First of all, I’d like to thank you all for your passionate interest and support for making the “Romantic Zumba Club” possible. I feel completely honored and flattered to see all of the overwhelming responds to my callings.
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    Ms. Man Li leads her students in a zumba class at her home studio(provided to bostonese.com).
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  • A Great SAT Essay Is Like A Great Piece of Music?

    By Neil Chyten, founder of The Chyten Center

    “If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.”
    — Author Anais Nin

    Writing great essays is not a lost art form. It is often, however, buried deep within a student’s creative mind or held in check by the student’s own fear of stepping over some imaginary boundary that separates creativity from convention. The secret to great writing is a simple one: “Write as if you were creating a symphony.”
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  • How Do You Choose a Test Prep and Tutoring Company?

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    In years past, anyone could hang a shingle and start a business.  Nowadays, websites are the new shingles, and it seems that anyone can build a website and become the new best tutoring and test prep company on the block. So, with so many choices how can you possibly know whom to trust with your child’s tutoring, test preparation, and college admission needs? Perhaps a quick review of essential characteristics would help. You need a company that:
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  • My Freshman Year at Tsinghua University in 1936

    By Shih Ying Lee

    （In 1936, Mr. Shih Ying Lee became a freshman at Tsinghua University（THU） in Beijing, China. After his freshman year, Mr. Lee had to travel many miles to Changsha, and then Kunming as Tsinghua University had to relocate due to the Japanese invasion. Mr. Lee arrived Boston to study at MIT as a graduate student in 1942. Ms. Lee later became a professor at MIT, and an entrepreneur. This article is from Prof Lee’s autobiography.)
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    Mr. and Mrs. Shih Ying Lee celebrate THU’s 100th anniversary at MIT Student Activity Center in April 2011.
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