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  • “Be the bird that sticks out” — Letter from Li Na

    Sept. 19, 2014

    My dear friends,

    For close to fifteen years, we’ve been a part of each other’s lives. As a tennis player representing China on the global stage, I’ve trekked around the world playing hundreds of matches on the WTA tour, for China’s Fed Cup team, at the National Games and at several Olympic Games. You’ve always been there for me, supporting me, cheering me on, and encouraging me to reach my potential.
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    Li Na returns a ball in the second round of 2014 Australian Open (file photo).
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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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  • 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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  • Foreign Language: GPS for My Journey to Global Citizenship

    By Pei He, Monterey Institute of International Studies

    (This is one of the winning essays of the Many Languages, One World Essay Contest. The purpose of the Many Languages, One World Essay Contest and Global Youth Forum is to highlight the importance of multilingualism as it relates to global citizenship. Students from all over the world submitted thoughtful, insightful essays on the subject, and we appreciate and applaud the efforts of all the students who took the time to share their views on multilingualism.)

    Global citizenship is not born, but acquired. It is the willingness to understand the real world, the determination to be part of it and the responsibility to make the world a better place. Different people have their own ways of becoming global citizens. Here is my version of story.
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  • Sample Personal Statements for Applying Graduate Programs

    Personal Statement for Applying Graduate Program in bio-statistics

    I will never forget my experience of working alongside doctors to fight against the horrible disease, SARS, in China in 2003. This work taught me the great impact of disease control and prevention and motivated me to apply for the biostatistics program at Yale University, with the ultimate career goal of becoming an influential professional or_ researcher in the field. I firmly believe that my constant thirst for knowledge, high regard for the work in the biomedical and public health fields, and my courageousness will drive my graduate studies and help me achieve personal and professional success.
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    Stature of John Harvard in Harvard Yard, photo by Bo Yang.
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