Category: Interviews
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The Pandemic Happened. Anna Chan Formed The Asian Leadership Collective In Response.
Anna Chan 陳嘉敏 Born: Morecambe, EnglandRaised: Morecambe, England A person who I have watched from afar from social media granted me the opportunity to speak with her a while ago. Anna Chan and I spoke about various topics, both personal and professional. On the professional side, we talked about the state of being British Chinese…
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How does a Chinese association serve Chinese-Jamaicans?
When things are going bad, we become scapegoats,” says Chinese Jamaican Dalton Yap in an interview about growing up in Jamaica.
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Paloma Chen, poetry, identity, growing up Chinese in Spain
For many years until her mid-teens, Paloma wanted nothing to do with her Chinese culture. Today, that has changed completely.
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Chinese people in Spain: are businesses ‘a space of resistance?’
Short of interviewing a person directly, I try to understand them through their words. I encountered an interview with a 23-year-old Chinese person in Spain, Paloma Chen, in the Spanish newspaper El Pais. The first time I picked up El Pais was in 2005 when I lived in Salamanca, Spain, and picking one up in…
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A Chinese Trinidadian born between revolutions
Born in the ’60s, Patrick shares his experience as a Chinese Trinidadian living through revolutions in China and Trinidad.
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Lily Kwok, one of the 4,000 Chinese in Trinidad and Tobago
Two opposing concepts of racism and privilege colour the experience of the Chinese in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Mexicali Chinese’s brush with poverty, dilapidation and a restaurant’s scandal
A Chinese family seeks a better life by migrating across the Pacific, only to be met with a harsh start.
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A Chinese school brings family from Taiwan to Peru
Much unlike my previous guests, Eric Yuan Jan’s family comes from a different region of China and of a much different professional background.
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A Chinese and Mexican identity formed in a restaurant
While Roberto’s parents toiled in their Chinese restaurant in Hermosillo, Mexico, his Mexican neighbours raised him.
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Four generations of Chinese immigration to Mexico
Four generations of Chinese migration to Mexico’s north, within which lies a story of familial separation, racial persecution and belonging.