Re: A Glimpse of New York City Chinatown 06/26/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]
[www.bloomberg.com]
Over the last 150 years, Manhattan’s Chinatown has seen a slew of changes to its urban footprint, reflecting the political and economic forces that continue to shape this immigrant community. Most recently, luxury developments have cropped up, often replacing older buildings and threatening to not only push out the neighborhood’s working-class residents, but also erase the community’s history.
“A lot of this history is not documented,” said Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong, an artist based in Chinatown. “Especially now post-pandemic, we have a lot of changes going on. Elders are passing away, gentrification, old-school businesses that have been around for forever are closing their doors or have closed their doors.”
“They’ve always been places of exclusion,” she said. “They formed because of racism — because Chinese weren’t allowed to be in other places. So they formed these congregations and built communities off of that, that then flourished.”
[nyc.reflective-urbanisms.com]
Over the last 150 years, Manhattan’s Chinatown has seen a slew of changes to its urban footprint, reflecting the political and economic forces that continue to shape this immigrant community. Most recently, luxury developments have cropped up, often replacing older buildings and threatening to not only push out the neighborhood’s working-class residents, but also erase the community’s history.
“A lot of this history is not documented,” said Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong, an artist based in Chinatown. “Especially now post-pandemic, we have a lot of changes going on. Elders are passing away, gentrification, old-school businesses that have been around for forever are closing their doors or have closed their doors.”
“They’ve always been places of exclusion,” she said. “They formed because of racism — because Chinese weren’t allowed to be in other places. So they formed these congregations and built communities off of that, that then flourished.”
[nyc.reflective-urbanisms.com]
Re: A Glimpse of Detroit Chinatown 06/26/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]
[www.freep.com]
"What happened to him on June 19, 1982, was definitely tragic and seared in our minds," Hwang told the crowd, gathered under a tent on one of the hottest days of the year. "He was beaten four times with a baseball bat while his assailant, Mr. (Ronald) Ebens, said, 'Because of you (expletive) we're out of work.' His last words were, 'It's not fair.' Those are the words that really should be remembered. It is the hallmark of the beginning of an Asian American civil rights battle. … So many things are unjust in our society, with respect to the justice system, with respect to sentencing, with respect to the right to equal protection."
Now, some are hoping to bring back what was once a thriving Chinatown around Cass and Peterboro. The state has allocated $1 million in the 2025 budget to Midtown Detroit Inc. to help refurbish the streets in the historic Chinatown area, which faded away in the late 1980s. Sandy Fatt, with the Chinatown Vision Committee, said the community now has a "golden opportunity" to redevelop the area: "We want to revitalize this neighborhood." While there is a growing number of Asian restaurants and groceries in cities like Madison Heights, Chinatown supporters are hoping to be part of Detroit's revival.
"What happened to him on June 19, 1982, was definitely tragic and seared in our minds," Hwang told the crowd, gathered under a tent on one of the hottest days of the year. "He was beaten four times with a baseball bat while his assailant, Mr. (Ronald) Ebens, said, 'Because of you (expletive) we're out of work.' His last words were, 'It's not fair.' Those are the words that really should be remembered. It is the hallmark of the beginning of an Asian American civil rights battle. … So many things are unjust in our society, with respect to the justice system, with respect to sentencing, with respect to the right to equal protection."
Now, some are hoping to bring back what was once a thriving Chinatown around Cass and Peterboro. The state has allocated $1 million in the 2025 budget to Midtown Detroit Inc. to help refurbish the streets in the historic Chinatown area, which faded away in the late 1980s. Sandy Fatt, with the Chinatown Vision Committee, said the community now has a "golden opportunity" to redevelop the area: "We want to revitalize this neighborhood." While there is a growing number of Asian restaurants and groceries in cities like Madison Heights, Chinatown supporters are hoping to be part of Detroit's revival.
Re: No Other Cuisine Prepares Crab 🦀 Better Than Guangdong Cuisine 06/26/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]
[www.sfgate.com]
Four Kings in Chinatown is the hottest new restaurant in San Francisco, and perhaps in the entire country right now.
Oh, but wait! The crab is here already, and it’s an event. Four Kings bills itself as a small plates establishment, but it does NOT serve small portions. This crustacean, served whole, is ample proof of that. Ho and Long have removed the crab’s innards and detached all of its claws to place underneath the body for the presentation. A ring of deep fried milk bread rolls surrounds the whole thing, like edible throw pillows. I don’t even know where to begin, I just know I want everything on this plate inside of my body as fast as possible.
Four Kings in Chinatown is the hottest new restaurant in San Francisco, and perhaps in the entire country right now.
Oh, but wait! The crab is here already, and it’s an event. Four Kings bills itself as a small plates establishment, but it does NOT serve small portions. This crustacean, served whole, is ample proof of that. Ho and Long have removed the crab’s innards and detached all of its claws to place underneath the body for the presentation. A ring of deep fried milk bread rolls surrounds the whole thing, like edible throw pillows. I don’t even know where to begin, I just know I want everything on this plate inside of my body as fast as possible.
Re: A Glimpse of Chicago Chinatown 06/26/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]
Re: A Guide To The Cantonese Bakery 06/24/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]
[www.sfgate.com]
Our favorite was the guava butter pineapple bun, a sliced bun filled with a thick, orange slab of guava-infused butter. The bun’s dough tempers the bright, tropical flavor.
Our favorite was the guava butter pineapple bun, a sliced bun filled with a thick, orange slab of guava-infused butter. The bun’s dough tempers the bright, tropical flavor.
Re: A Glimpse of Singapore Chinatown 06/23/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]
[www.straitstimes.com]
The courses will have 200 slots for domestic helpers to pick up Hokkien at classes run by the Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan Cultural Academy and Cantonese at classes by The Salvation Army.
The courses will have 200 slots for domestic helpers to pick up Hokkien at classes run by the Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan Cultural Academy and Cantonese at classes by The Salvation Army.
Re: Harvard Business Review Article: Why China Can’t Innovate 06/23/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]
[www.nationalreview.com]
The latest enrollment numbers are consistent with evidence that Students for Fair Admissions brought in its two cases against Harvard and the University of North Carolina before the Supreme Court: that subjective admissions criteria were used to disadvantage Asian students who performed disproportionately well on standardized tests such as the SAT, while black and Hispanic students who scored lower on such tests on average were given an admissions boost.
The latest enrollment numbers are consistent with evidence that Students for Fair Admissions brought in its two cases against Harvard and the University of North Carolina before the Supreme Court: that subjective admissions criteria were used to disadvantage Asian students who performed disproportionately well on standardized tests such as the SAT, while black and Hispanic students who scored lower on such tests on average were given an admissions boost.
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[hbr.org]
The reason that Chinese students including ABCs (etc.) fail to use their cognitive faculties in a manner that brings about innovative outcomes is discussed in the article; furthermore, these and additional reasons likely constitute a factor in the federal justice's ruling that Harvard should continue to be permitted to limit the number of East Asian students, ABCs (etc.) admitted to Harvard University, since excessive pencil twirling and mere regurgitation of textbook material leads to a thoroughgoing, abysmal failure to creatively innovate with regard to the interpretation of course content, a condition that irreparably harms a university culture of free inquiry --
Harvard Does Not Discriminate Against Asian-Americans in Admissions, Judge Rules [www.nytimes.com]
They will soon, and one could speculate -- based on Supreme Court Upholds Native American Adoption Law, so that a law aimed at keeping Native American adoptees within tribes is constitutional -- are there any parallels?
[www.nytimes.com]
Re: racism..experiences anyone who would like to share? 06/23/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]
[www.theguardian.com]
Four out of every 10 people who faced a hate act said they did not tell anyone, including friends or family. Of those who experienced a potentially unlawful hate act, including explicit threats, physical harm or institutional discrimination, 66% did not report the incident to authorities, often due to the belief that the act wasn’t significant enough or that reporting wouldn’t make a difference.
Four out of every 10 people who faced a hate act said they did not tell anyone, including friends or family. Of those who experienced a potentially unlawful hate act, including explicit threats, physical harm or institutional discrimination, 66% did not report the incident to authorities, often due to the belief that the act wasn’t significant enough or that reporting wouldn’t make a difference.
Re: What it Meant to Be Cantonese in China and America, 1850–1900 06/23/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]
[www.altaonline.com]
The United States is dotted with towns and cities that decimated their Chinese communities, whose residents were forced to leave, or worse. How did people later remember these places, if at all? Did they even want to remember them? Did the locals feel shame for what had happened, or build anything to memorialize these lost places? Last summer, I embarked on a road trip from Los Angeles to Northern California to find out...
For decades, Santa Cruz was an epicenter for the state’s anti-Chinese movement. Ow and I walk to the corner of Front and Cooper Streets, where Denis Kearney, founder of the Workingmen’s Party of California, in the late 1870s delivered hate-filled speeches that harangued the Chinese as “moon-eyed lepers.” Kearney’s racist slogan, “The Chinese Must Go,” was a popular sentiment here, embraced by politicians and newspaper writers alike. Never mind that many in town wouldn’t have known what to do if the Chinese actually had gone: There weren’t enough white people here to take on the unpleasant, ill-paying, often backbreaking jobs the Chinese did. “The Chinese were like the Mexicans of today,” Ow says. “They did everything.”...
There’s a lot to see, so one might be forgiven for missing the tiny plaque on the hotel’s side that reads, “In Memory of the Burning of San Jose Chinatown.” The inscription describes a “mysterious fire, deliberately set” on this site, which destroyed “the largest Chinatown south of San Francisco.” Similar fires were set in Chinatowns across the West, from Antioch to Sacramento to Pasadena in California, from Tacoma, Washington, to Denver, Colorado...
In the America of the late 1800s, terrorism against Chinese communities was commonplace and not limited to arson...
What became known as the Driving Out didn’t occur in a vacuum. In 1879, the California Constitution was amended to give the state legislature “all necessary power…for the removal of Chinese.”...
The United States is dotted with towns and cities that decimated their Chinese communities, whose residents were forced to leave, or worse. How did people later remember these places, if at all? Did they even want to remember them? Did the locals feel shame for what had happened, or build anything to memorialize these lost places? Last summer, I embarked on a road trip from Los Angeles to Northern California to find out...
For decades, Santa Cruz was an epicenter for the state’s anti-Chinese movement. Ow and I walk to the corner of Front and Cooper Streets, where Denis Kearney, founder of the Workingmen’s Party of California, in the late 1870s delivered hate-filled speeches that harangued the Chinese as “moon-eyed lepers.” Kearney’s racist slogan, “The Chinese Must Go,” was a popular sentiment here, embraced by politicians and newspaper writers alike. Never mind that many in town wouldn’t have known what to do if the Chinese actually had gone: There weren’t enough white people here to take on the unpleasant, ill-paying, often backbreaking jobs the Chinese did. “The Chinese were like the Mexicans of today,” Ow says. “They did everything.”...
There’s a lot to see, so one might be forgiven for missing the tiny plaque on the hotel’s side that reads, “In Memory of the Burning of San Jose Chinatown.” The inscription describes a “mysterious fire, deliberately set” on this site, which destroyed “the largest Chinatown south of San Francisco.” Similar fires were set in Chinatowns across the West, from Antioch to Sacramento to Pasadena in California, from Tacoma, Washington, to Denver, Colorado...
In the America of the late 1800s, terrorism against Chinese communities was commonplace and not limited to arson...
What became known as the Driving Out didn’t occur in a vacuum. In 1879, the California Constitution was amended to give the state legislature “all necessary power…for the removal of Chinese.”...
Re: Coconut Ice Cream was invented in Guangzhou 06/23/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]
[tribecacitizen.com]
We of course left room for Chinatown Ice Cream Factory, which I cannot walk by without a scoop of almond cookie. It is the best flavor ever.
We of course left room for Chinatown Ice Cream Factory, which I cannot walk by without a scoop of almond cookie. It is the best flavor ever.
