Chinese Language

Hidden in a Mini-Mall in Flushing, a Home for Art

By Aruna DSouza June 21, 2023Art, Asian-Americans, Chinese Language, Fashion, Flushing (Queens, NY), Herb Tam, Immigration and Emigration, Korean-Americans, Lu Zhang (Artist), Queens Borough Public Library, Shopping Centers and Malls

In a Queens neighborhood with a diverse community of East Asian immigrants, an unlikely exhibition in an unexpected place offers a sense of belonging.

Can Cultural Identity Be Defined by Food?

By Ligaya Mishan and Esther Choi November 3, 2022Bakeries and Baked Products, Chinese Language, Colonization, Cooking and Cookbooks, Food, Language and Languages, Politics and Government, Race and Ethnicity, Restaurants, Segregation and Desegregation, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Travel, wintertravel2022

Cuisine is one of the few ways to characterize Singapore’s Peranakan culture, a hard-to-pin-down blend of ethnic and racial identities.

Language Apps and Technology to Help You Navigate Asia

By Naaman Zhou September 28, 2022China, Chinese Language, Duolingo, Hindi Language, Japan, Japanese Language, Language and Languages, Malaysia, Mobile Applications, Smartphones, South Korea, Taiwan, Travel, Travel and Vacations, Vietnam

While you may not master every language ahead of a multistop tour through Asia, these apps and digital tools can help you get by (and maybe make you some friends).

Foreign Films, English Titles and the Dilemma Distributors Face

By Nicolas Rapold August 26, 2022Almodovar, Pedro, Bong Joon Ho, Chinese Language, Film, Hamaguchi, Ryusuke, Language and Languages, Movies, Netflix Inc, Parasite (Movie), Sciamma, Celine, Translation and Interpreters

Leave as is? Translate? Change altogether? A movie’s success doesn’t depend entirely on what we call it, but it can have a big effect.