https://www.scmp.com/rss/327524/feed Dolly Li is the content director of Goldthread. She's an Emmy award-winning video journalist and correspondent, covering culture and identity in multimedia formats. Previously she was a video producer at Al Jazeera's AJ+. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com When 16-year-old Ahjie first encountered Laohan, the charismatic leader of Yunnan-based reggae band Kawa, in elementary school, he thought he was meeting Bob Marley. Ahjie is part of the Wa people, an ethnic minority in southwestern China. His idol, Laohan, is also Wa. On a rainy Saturday night in Kunming, Yunnan, last December, Ahjie and over 500 other fans, all of whom looked no more than 18 years old, packed into a windowless concert venue tucked inside a mall to watch Kawa perform. The... https://www.scmp.com/identity/finding-bob-marley-china/article/3000832?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/identity/finding-bob-marley-china/article/3000832?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 15 Feb 2019 08:40:00 +0000 A leaked email from a senior Duke University faculty member has ignited debate online around the perception of immigration and foreign students in the U.S. On Jan. 26, Megan Neely, Duke’s director of graduate studies of its biostatistics program, sent an email cautioning Chinese students to speak English on campus, and in professional settings.   One professor from Duke University sent out an email asking Chinese students not to speak Chinese in school building. pic.twitter.com/6xGkIeScJo — Hua... https://www.scmp.com/identity/duke-university-chinese-email-incident-explained/article/3000654?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/identity/duke-university-chinese-email-incident-explained/article/3000654?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:19:04 +0000 On Sunday, Lil Pump posted a snippet of his song “Butterfly Doors” on Instagram and Twitter, complete with the racist gesture of pulling his eyelids back to mock people of Asian descent while rapping, “Smokin’ on dope / They call me Yao Ming ’cause my eyes real low / Ching chong.” (The Instagram post has since been deleted.) BUTTERFLY DOORS RT pic.twitter.com/XQZVrgyk7t — Lil pump (@lilpump) December 16, 2018 The Colombian-American rapper known for his 2017 hit “Gucci Gang” is facing backlash... https://www.scmp.com/culture/lil-pump-faces-wrath-angry-asian-rappers-his-racial-slurs/article/3000344?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/lil-pump-faces-wrath-angry-asian-rappers-his-racial-slurs/article/3000344?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 20 Dec 2018 13:59:10 +0000 Illustrations by Cynthia Yuan Cheng, who also happens to have a Google Doodle up for the holiday. Once a year comes a very special astrological moment in which we, the Earth, are closest to the moon: the autumn equinox. This means that we’ll be seeing the largest full moon of the year, also known as the harvest moon. In 2018, this moon appears tonight, on September 24. The harvest moon also happens to be one of the most important holidays of the year for Chinese and Vietnamese people: the... https://www.scmp.com/culture/making-sense-our-obsession-moon/article/3000139?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/making-sense-our-obsession-moon/article/3000139?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 24 Sep 2018 08:04:08 +0000 Earlier this week, Mondelēz International, one of the world’s largest snack companies and owner of household staples like Chips Ahoy!, Cadbury, and Oreo, announced two new Oreo flavors just for China: Hot Chicken Wing and Wasabi. Mondelēz released the new products with two videos on Weibo (aka Chinese Twitter) to accompany the flavors. The wasabi video features a young man meticulously deconstructing a Wasabi Oreo to use in a Oreo-crusted onigiri that’s stuffed with egg, eel, and... https://www.scmp.com/food/oreos-has-wasabi-and-chicken-wing-flavors-only-china/article/2162009?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/food/oreos-has-wasabi-and-chicken-wing-flavors-only-china/article/2162009?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 Aug 2018 08:15:00 +0000 Everyone’s been bamboozled by The Orient. You. Us. Most fast food restaurants. Source: Some Oriental chicken commercial complete with singing Chinese chicken (1992) From Brooklyn to Singapore, we’ve watched and read about Chinese food, culture, and history through the lens of people who (sometimes) know of The Orient but don’t always get it. Even those in our most trusted English-language media have described something as mainstream as bubble tea, as “blobs” from the Far East (the new... https://www.scmp.com/welcome-goldthread-news-orient/article/2151371?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/welcome-goldthread-news-orient/article/2151371?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 19 Jun 2018 02:30:30 +0000