A documentary about Chinese LGBTQ and their mothers.

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This made me tear up.

stole this from stephiepenguin's tumblr

you can attain native fluency when people pull their eyes up at the corners and call you “Ching chong Chinese girl” when white people tell you “go back where you came from” when the asshole on the bus tells you your breakfast “smells like shit” when you’re too embarrassed to speak your native tongue in public with your ( Read more... )

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For every time someone has said to me, "You're not Asian enough", "You don't look Chinese", or "say something in Chinese", FUCK YOU. It is not okay to say these things to Asians, so seriously, stop it.

China’s Hui Muslims are unique in many respects. The country’s second-largest ethnic minority share linguistic and cultural ties with the majority in China that have allowed them to practice their religion with less interference and fewer restrictions than others, like Uighur Muslims and Tibetans. Outside of China, the Hui practice of installing ( Read more... )

1 - Friends of a Certain Age: why it is harder to make friends over the age of 30 (NY Times)

2 - Citation Needed by stephiepenguin about China and how it's not as suppressed as you think it is. Very good read, viewing China through the Western perspective is often one-sided and it takes someone who's lived there or read their news to know the real story.

In China, fear of fake eggs and ‘recycled’ buns.: Despite efforts to create a modern food-safety regimen in China, oversight remains utterly haphazard, in the hands of ill-trained, ill-equipped and outnumbered enforcers whose quick fixes are even more quickly undone. New York Times [Registration Required ( Read more... )

Really interesting article on how being Asian American affects ability and inability to navigate social hiearchy and professional worldQuotes from the article ( Read more... )

Critics say LEED program doesn't fulfill promises. The business of green building is growing, even though the construction market as a whole has been in a slump. The U.S. Green Building Council, or USGBC, and its certification system are swaying the industry - creating cachet around green buildings. All Things Considered, NPR.Wellesley's ES 300 ( Read more... )

( Even as Beijing imposes the world’s most rigorous national energy campaign, the effort is being overwhelmed by the billionfold demands of Chinese consumers )

( Fool's Mountain: Blogging for China )