Chinese American History

SUNDAY MORNING

Then & now: slaves to tradition

30 Sep 2012

The keeping and trading of mui tsai may have died out but the effects can still be felt today, writes Jason Wordie.

11:50PM

City serves real taste of Canada

9 Aug 2012

Americans often consider Canada to be America's hat. Visually on a map, there's a resemblance. But in practice, I prefer to think of Canada as America's brains (although I don't have any solid...

11:15PM

Stodgy school dinners fed a hunger for new flavours

2 Aug 2012

Architect and interior designer Joyce Wang - the creative force behind two of the city's renowned restaurants, Asia Society's Ammo Cafe and The Drawing Room at J Plus Boutique Hotel - is as...

10:47PM

Anti-Chinese law served the Chinese well

22 Jun 2012

The United States' Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 barred the Chinese from migrating to that country for the next six decades. It also banned ethnic Chinese residents from becoming American citizens...

6:13PM

World.Wide.Web

10 Jun 2012

World.Wide.Web
by Bertil Lintner
Orchid Press

5:10PM

The inclusion act

3 Jun 2012

On a lesser-trodden block of New York's Chinatown, the glass-and-wood facade and the Helvetica acronym of the Museum of Chinese in America (Moca) project modernity and modesty in equal measure....

4:29PM

Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Placating graduates a work in progress

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5:24AM

George Chen

For HSBC, the first love is apparently not the deepest

7:12AM

Restaurant's fish tanks bring success in Sydney

When Eric Wong Kam-wah first installed fish tanks in his Sydney restaurant two decades ago to introduce Hong Kong-style live seafood dishes to Australia, his friends teased him, saying he might...

8:08AM

For mainlanders, Sydney is hot property

Along with the standard purchases - abalone, sheepskin, macadamia nuts and koala soft toys - deluxe properties have been added to the 'must-have' shopping lists of many mainland travellers to...

7:20AM

Money and food go down well in Sydney and HK

Sydney has long been one of the most popular migration destinations for Hongkongers for a good reason - the inhabitants of both cities are equally keen on making money and enjoying good food....

4:47PM

Host to heads of state never far from HK roots

Tang Chu-ting's family used to earn a living farming oysters and selling oyster sauce from their Yuen Long home.

7:10AM

Diaspora diaries

As a teenager, Anthony Wong Chi-sing lived in a comfortable house on Mount Butler, Hong Kong Island. That was until rioting broke out in 1967.

2:38PM

Overseas news release written in Chinese only for ... Chinatown readers abroad, perhaps?

The government news agency, it seems, goes to extraordinary lengths to avoid producing press releases in English these days.

7:00AM