Articles tagged: diversity
column: U-M Center for Chinese Studies Kite Festival and Frances' Farewell--let us keep the conversation going
Posted: Sep 25, 2011The University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. As usual for an academic department, they have all sorts of lectures and films and art exhibits and concerts and ... Read more »
column: 'Looking Both Ways' at the 'Made in China' label and 9/11 fears
Posted: Sep 18, 2011The wall of 52 faces at the Eastern Michigan University (EMU) Looking Both Ways contemporary art exhibit is striking. The styles are all different — formal, casual, realistic, cartoonish, playful, even black and white and ... Read more »
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column: Making Mooncakes the modern traditional way for the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival
Posted: Sep 11, 2011The Mid-Autumn Moon Festival is this Monday. That means mooncakes! A harvest festival, the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival is a Chinese (Zhong Qiu Jie), Vietnamese (Tet Trung Thu) and Korean (Chusok) festival that celebrates the end of ... Read more »
Book Review: 'Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity' by Tim Wise
Posted: Sep 07, 2011In January of 1963, shortly after he had been elected to office, and in front of a cheering and supportive audience, Alabama Governor George Wallace offered an inaugural address in which he uttered the following ... Read more »
Column: Ode to bento boxes and lunchboxes for back to school perfection
Posted: Sep 04, 2011In the hubbub of back to school preparations—registration, green emergency cards, forms, fees, textbooks, pictures, school supplies, backpacks, lunchboxes, scheduling extracurriculars, new lunch and snack ideas, catching up with old friends, etc., I keep ending ... Read more »
column: Showing off our many local treasures, the power of sharing our ideas
Posted: Aug 28, 2011Asian American photojournalist Corky Lee shows his Vincent Chin case photographs exhibited at the Chinese Cultural Center in Madison Heights during the Asian American Journalists Association National Convention | Photograph courtesy of Joz Wang jozjozjoz.comThe ... Read more »
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column: From Band Camp to Ramadan - finding strength, skinniness and similarities
Posted: Aug 21, 2011At the annual Band Camp concert at Interlochen a few years ago, my friend Shih-yi joked, “This would be a good day to rob Ann Arbor. Half the town is here.” After a summer of ... Read more »
column: Finally finding time for church/temple in the space of summer
Posted: Aug 14, 2011A girlfriend who attends St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church once told me how invaluable that one hour a week every Sunday morning was for her, to sit, reflect, pray, and be alone. To hear her ... Read more »
column: Thinking of peace at the Buddhist Toro Nagashi after the terrorist attack in Norway
Posted: Aug 07, 2011Two weeks after the Obon Festival, a Buddhist holiday to remember and celebrate one’s ancestors, during which spirits are said to come home to visit the family for two weeks, comes the Toro Nagashi, a ... Read more »
column: Facing the terror of sports culture far outside my comfort zone in Recreational Paddling class
Posted: Jul 31, 2011When my teenage daughter, Hao Hao, started rowing crew for Huron High School, the president of the crew parents’ group recommended that we parents also get involved by rowing with the Ann Arbor Rowing Club. I ... Read more »
Column: Unstructured summer fun and discovery versus Tiger Mothering
Posted: Jul 24, 2011Eleven-year-old Niu Niu and 7-year-old Little Brother are trying to build a raft with papyrus stems, like ancient times, in case they ever have to escape a war by crossing a rushing river in the ... Read more »
column: Borders: Our home away from home, finding Ann Arbor wherever we go
Posted: Jul 22, 2011A few years ago at Ann Arbor Art Fair, the police had gotten tipped off that our most notorious photographer, Harvey, was planning a big photo shoot of several nudes in front of the State ... Read more »
column: Dancing to summer music outdoors and for the Japanese American Obon festival
Posted: Jul 17, 2011My daughter Hao Hao and I were at an outdoor music festival when she first spied the little girl. About 3 years old, in a pink Hello Kitty dress, and one long brown curly ponytail, ... Read more »
column: Reading light summer romance without Asians, Asian Americans, or people of color
Posted: Jul 10, 2011While looking for light reading material for a recent airplane ride, I grabbed a pink book with a naked male torso that I vaguely recalled picking up at the King School Book Fair for 50 ... Read more »
column: Balancing old and new traditions for family and community at Fourth of July and Ann Arbor Summer Festival
Posted: Jul 03, 2011When my seven-year-old son, Little Brother, came home from school and said that his first grade class would be talking about family traditions the next day, his older sisters all simultaneously said, “Uh oh.” Because ... Read more »
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