The catchphrase ‘you’ve met me at a very Chinese time of my life’ is doing the rounds on social media. What does it mean?
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The adoption of Draco Malfoy as a new year’s symbol has much to teach us about the complexities of Chinese wordplay.
In 1982, the brutal beating and death of Vincent Chin near a Detroit nightclub enraged the Asian American community and led to changes in the legal system.
The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a Buddha or as a patron of Buddhists.
Chinese is one of the world’s oldest languages and spoken by over one billion people. Its pronoun system may be on the cusp of significant change.
For Buddhists, Bodhi Day represents hope and the potential to overcome suffering.
Recent research explores how women with non-native English accents — specifically Mandarin — fare in the Canadian job market.
The Chinese Exclusion Act and other discriminatory measures had profound and lasting impacts on Chinese women and families in Canada.
Multicultural communities could be crucial to the Voice referendum, given their size and breadth. The ‘yes’ campaign will need to mobilise at the grassroots level to be successful.
As the fastest-growing racial group in the US, Asian Americans form an important voting bloc and could play a key role in swing states, write two political scientists.
Jess Ho’s acerbic, sad, funny memoir of combines a compelling critique of the Melbourne food scene that became her family with memories of a traumatic childhood.
Opportunities for social mobility, rather than simply economic incentives, have generated emigration from China to countries like Ghana.
Sugar has deep links with slavery in the US, but Black workers weren’t the only ones affected. In post-Civil War Louisiana, Chinese workers also toiled cutting and processing cane.
Cultures around the world say ‘thank yous’ in many different ways. Two communication scholars explain what these expressions can reveal to us.
Chinese-Canadian journalist Edith Eaton documented anti-Asian racism in Canada in the late 19th and early 20th century. Over 100 years later, not much has changed.
The Australian government has dropped protections for language programs at a time when universities are announcing plans to end Asian languages courses. That’s a mistake in the Asian Century.
The recent arrest of a Chinese-born scientist at MIT raises questions about the value of international science collaboration and its impact on the American innovation system.
In Inner Mongolia, China’s new bilingual education policy comes at the expense of Mongolian language and culture.
It’s not clear how individuals are being targeted. And while they’re mostly high-profile people, that doesn’t mean there’s no lesson for the average person to take away.
According to a recently conducted survey, Chinese citizens hold very high levels of satisfaction with the performance of their national government during the pandemic.
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Brock University
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Teaching Associate, Faculty of Education, Southern Cross University
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Associate Professor in Urban Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Pro Vice Chancellor Research, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor of Linguistics, University at Buffalo
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Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Geography, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer in Education, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Lecturer in Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield
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Pro-Vice-Provost East Asia, UCL
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Professor of Human Geography, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in Business Ethics and CSR, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
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Doctoral Researcher in Chinese American Literature, University of Sussex
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Associate Professor of Human Geography, The University of Queensland
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PhD Candidate, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University