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Would the god of fortune like a chocolate bar?

Perth-based food blogger Ai-Ling (Food Endeavours of the Blue Apocalypse) spotted this altar at a Chinese shop in Western Australia. Small altars like these are a common sight in Chinese homes and...

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Pre-lunar new year link round-up

I apologize for the lack of posts lately. Between my finishing my master’s thesis and planning two conferences, I haven’t had much time to sit down and write anything non-academic. Thankfully, lunar...

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Green cards for sale

A few weeks ago I wrote about wealthy East Asian women who give birth in the United States so that their children may be granted US citizenship automatically. Lately, the US media has also paid some...

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Lunar new year nomenclature and the multicultural metropolis

On Sunday I stopped by the Monterey Park Lunar New Year Festival with my family. For two days, the organizers blocked off several blocks of bustling Garvey Avenue to make room for street food vendors,...

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Lunar new year link round-up

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy year of the snake! 10 essential Chinese New Year dishes Trying to cash in on Chinese New Year – Chinese sneakers from Western companies Let LGBT groups march in...

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Flat3 – the Kiwi Asian Awkward Black Girl?

Angry Asian Man just posted about Flat3, a new webseries about three young New Zealand Chinese women living together after university. They’re all struggling to find their way in life, and are...

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Pork rolls, eyeballs, and char siu bao

Happy end of the weekend/beginning of the workweek, y’all! Here are some Asian food-related links from this past week. We have two foods going mainstream and one that is most definitely not: Aussies...

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Women’s History Month

Here are some links in honor of Women’s History Month (US and Australia) and International Women’s Month (UK). A mother’s struggle Louisa Elizabeth Nichols was 32 years old when, on 24 July 1901, she...

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Elsewhere on the Internet….

Does spying from China make people more suspicious of Chinese Americans? Two South Asian comedians: a Pakistani in Western Australia and a multilingual Indian Québecois Language, immigration, and...

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Not exactly white but Asian enough to be a top model

This post comes from Melbourne-based writer Mabel Kwong‘s blog on Asian Australian issues. Thanks, Mabel, for sharing your insights on Jessica Gomes. We hope to hear more from you on this blog in the...

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Community arts across the Pacific: “The Streets Between Us” and “Zero to Hero”

The Streets Between Us In Los Angeles, an organization I work with has a photography exhibition up at the Chinese American Museum. A number of Chinatown Community for Equitable Development supporters...

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Immigrant small businesses facing gentrification

Earlier today, I had the privilege of touring the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta with one of the area’s biggest boosters, Anna of the blog I Heart Cabramatta. Cabramatta has a huge population of refugees...

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Accents, foreign-ness, and social distance

As an American traveling around Australia, I haven’t encountered any difficulty being understood. Pronounced Rs at the end of syllables and odd Californian vowel sounds don’t faze anyone. Australians...

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Melbourne: Chinese Museum and Immigration Museum

Melbourne is a city of many, many museums. I’ve only been here for a few days, but I’ve already been to seven different museums, from art museums to cultural and natural history museums. Of most...

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