I began to notice it when I would walk home from school. It was springtime and afternoons would always get a light afternoon shower and leave sidewalks with puddles of rainwater. I would walk the 13 minutes from North Middle School to my house and it was largely uneventful until I started to notice I’d… Continue reading Adult Story Hour: Growing Pains

Featured image by: user/AznSW/ Literally it translates to “Hong Kong Add Oil!” Add oil is a Hong Kong English expression used as encouragement and support. It can be roughly translated as “Go for it”.Lawrence and Season Lee were marching on a highway with their 3-year-old daughter, who tottered along in pink galoshes. Mr. Lee said… Continue reading “We can’t take it anymore” – On Hong Kong

I have been in Austin for one week and one day and I have a lot of thoughts so far. First, it’s hot. I came during the record hot week with every day being over 100 degrees. But it’s not like hell or anything. It’s humid but absolutely fine. I guess it’s to be expected… Continue reading Settling In

This is Part V of a series. Read Intro | Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV I don’t really know how to end this because it’s far from over. This series has energized me but also exhausted me. In some ways, it has proved an educational distraction because I can… Continue reading Part V – No one can be authentically human while they prevents others from being so

This is Part IV of a series. Read Intro | Part I | Part II | Part III | Part V Sinophobia, Orientalism, and the “perpetual foreigners” Before I jump into all the historical atrocities the US has done to my people, I need to define some key concepts about the racism that Chinese people… Continue reading PART IV: The cycle of racism throughout history often repeats itself

This is Part III of a series. Read Intro | Part I | Part II | Part IV | Part V The White/Western Hegemony Philosopher John Locke and a wood graving of white trader inspecting an African slave during a sale circa 1850 “White supremacy is not merely the work of hotheaded demagogues, or a… Continue reading PART III: Our acts are justified because we say they are evil

This is Part II of a series. Read Intro | Part I | Part III | Part IV | Part V The threats of hegemonic displacement This threat of China displacing the US may seem to have just exploded with the trade war, but it is a storm that has been bubbling for decades. For… Continue reading PART II: “China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will move the world”

This is Part I of a series. Read Intro | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V What is Hegemony? Hegemony is defined by Leo Chavez as “the system of values, attitudes, morality, and other beliefs that passively or actively support the established order and thus the class interests that dominate… Continue reading PART I : When China or the US sneezes, the world catches a cold

Read Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V Have you been paying attention to China? More importantly, have you been paying attention to what China has been doing for the past 10 years? These questions have sprung up with increasing frequency in the past year as people have… Continue reading Our War with China

As you know, I mentor a high school student through the Asian Pacific Development Center and the last week has been important for organizations like APDC who serve immigrant and refugee communities. Today is specifically important because it is the last day to submit comments on the changes to public change to the Department of… Continue reading Oppose the Proposed Changes to Public Charge Rule