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  • Year of Snake Top 100 Reports on bostonese.com

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    The Year of Snake ended a few days ago when the Year of Horse started on Jan. 31, 2014. We would like to sincerely thank our reporters, columnists, editors, photographers and other contributors for their hard work over past 12 months. We will never forget the chaos and heartbreak after the Marathon bombings, never allow hate speech against Asian Americans to be unchallenged, and never hesitate to give voices to those who needed the most. Working together, we move Boston forward.
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    Some pictures published on bostonese.com during the week of April 15, 2013.
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  • Michelle Wu Urges Support for Birthday Wishes on Her 29th Birthday

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    Jan, 14, 2014

    Today I’m celebrating my 29th birthday with family and friends. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to spend this year focusing on Boston, talking with residents, and working to make our city better for families in every neighborhood.
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  • Farewell and Moving On after 15 Years

    January 13, 2014

    Dear Friends and Colleagues,

    As you may have heard, Mayor Walsh has appointed Alejandra St. Guillen as the new Director of the Office of New Bostonians. Alejandra is a great leader with energy, commitment and a big vision. I know that the work of making sure that all New Bostonians have a voice and the opportunities to participate fully in all aspects of life in Boston is in good hands with Alejandra’s and Mayor Walsh’s leadership.

    Rev. Cheng Imm Tan (left) at 2012 New Bostonians Summit.
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  • Thirty Advices from Alibaba’s Jack Ma

    Jack Ma (马云) is Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group, a family of highly successful Internet-based businesses. He is the first mainland Chinese entrepreneur to appear on the cover of Forbes Magazine and ranks as one of the world’s billionaires. His last name Ma means horse in Chineae.

    In a recent speech, Jack Ma gave 30 advices for people. Let’s share his wisdom just before the Year of Horse arrives on Jan. 31, 2014.
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  • Goodbye to Iris Chang, and Happy New Year!

    By Beatrice Lee, bostonese.com columnist

    Iris Hsiao-Hung Chang came from Taiwan University to be a visiting scholar in Yen-jing and Harvard for three months since Sept. and has stayed with me as a house guest. She was such a delightful person to be with. Iris Chang has a Ph.D. in English Literature from University of Michigan, and had been to Harvard before.
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  • History of the Association of Chinese Geneticists in America

    By Andrew TL. Chen, PhD, FACMG; Huanming Yang, PhD

    The Association of Chinese Geneticists in America (ACGA) is a non-profit (501C) organization formed by a group of American geneticists of Chinese ethnicity but its membership is open to individuals of all races and ethnicity. Incorporated in the State of Georgia in 1987, ACGA is supported by membership fees and donations. The Association facilitates the interaction between the American genetics community and their colleagues in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore.
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    Current and former presidents and board of directors in the 2012 annual meeting: left to right–Wai-Yee Chan, Chris Yun Fai Lau, Stephen TS Lam, Lydia P. Chen (Andrew’s wife), Andrew T Chen, Hongyu Zhao, Min-Xin Guan, Harold Chen, Bai-Lin Wu, and Huanming Yang.
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  • The Chinese in America by Otis Gibson

    Otis Gibson (12/8/1826 – 1/25/1889) was an American missionary to China. On April 3, 1855 Gibson and wife set sail from New York Harbor on a clipper ship bound for Shanghai. In 1856, Otis Gibson and his Methodist co-laborers established two churches in the city, namely, Church of the True God (真神堂) and Church of Heavenly Peace (天安堂), which were the first two Methodist churches built in East Asia.
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  • Millions of Broken American Dreams — An Open Letter to the World

    (This letter was written by Swan Lee on behalf of protesters of the Jimmy Kimmel Live TV show.)

    Dear Fair and Righteous Citizens of the World,

    ​We don’t know who you are, but we know you are out there. We are asking for your urgent help. We have been rendered voiceless, powerless, and hopeless by the American mass media and many Americans. The American mass media have lost journalistic ethics and objectivity and have been blatantly and partially defending ABC’s show host, Jimmy Kimmel, who used children to discuss the merits of annihilating all Chinese people for the purpose of evading American government debt owed to Chinese government. This prerecorded skit was broadcast on ABC channel on October 16, 2013, a day that hundreds of millions of us will remember as the most traumatizing and humiliating day in our lives, a day that brought ravages and devastation that we, our parents, and our children, will never fully recover from. The majority of Americans’ indifference and even worsened hostility towards our suffering have kept adding more wounds to our injuries. We have nowhere to go to have the perpetrators and abusers of human beings’ inherent dignity be brought under justice. Now, as our last resort, with the last shred of hope for human compassion that we believe must exist in this world, we ask for your gracious help. You, citizens of the world with a sense of justice and love in your heart, can help hundreds of millions of people, in fact, one fifth of the world’s population, regain their human status and dignity.
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    Protest against ABC at Holocaust Memorial in Boston on Nov. 2, 2013.
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  • 情和理,故乡的荷花——NEUTRAL, A Lotus Flower by Itself

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    情和理
    俞莎菲娅

    我只能在荷花盛开时才醒来
    假如你能熬过那秋未的冷落

    我只有在荷叶飘逸时回乡来
    如果你能越过那深冬的湖面

    醒来时是你这九月的天和意
    回乡时是你这六月的情和容
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  • Photo Journal: New World Trade Center and 9/11 Memorial

    By Luyuan Zhang, bostonese.com

    I was in elementary school in China twelve years ago, and was heart broken when I heard the sad news. On September 12, 2013, I found myself at The National September 11 Memorial in downtown Manhattan, shooting photos all the way from the new World Trade Center (WTC) which is still under construction, to the Memorial Plaza.
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