A RARE COLLECTION OF TAIWAN LITERATURE SERIES DONATED TO UCLA EAST ASIAN LIBRARY BY MAY CHEN
LOS ANGELES – A rare collection of Taiwan Literature Series, also code named the Encyclopedia of Taiwan, made the last display to the public Saturday in El Monte, a suburban…
THE STORY OF K. Y. TAI, A DIFFERENT VERSION OF TIGER MOM
Tiger Mother has become the symbol of Chinese mothers since Amy Chua, a law professor, published her book BATTLE HYMN OF THE TIGER MOTHER in 2011. The title has been…
FROM “ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME” TO THE SILK ROAD, ITALY IS A MUST-SEE COUNTRY
There are thousands of reasons to visit Italy – the Colosseum, the Leaning Tower, the charming Venice. But to me, a proverb I learned when I began to learn English…
MARTIN YAN MAKES CHINESE COUSINE BOTH TASTEFUL AND VISIBLE ON LAS VEGAS STRIP
On my way back from touring the Antelope Canyon, I stayed at the Paris Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas for two days. The first day after arriving at the…
JULIEN CHEN WINS SECOND PLACE AT THE K12 NATIONAL ART COMPETITION IN US
LOS ANGELES – Julien Chen, a six-year-old student at the Fairmont Schools in Anaheim Hills, California, won the second place at the kindergarten level at the 2023 K12 National Art…
INAUGURATION CEREMONY HELD TO INSTALL ASIAN ORGANIZATIONS ALLIANCE BOARD MEMBERS
LOS ANGELES – An inauguration ceremony was held on Thursday at the Los Angeles County Supervisors’ conference hall to install Asian Organizations Alliance and Chinese Enterprises Chamber of Commerce Board…
EXPLORING PERU, A COUNTRY FULL OF UNSOLVED MYSTERIES
What attracts me to visit Peru during the Covid 19 pandemic is certainly Machu Picchu, the New Seven Wonders of the World in a worldwide internet poll in 2007. However,…
THE CHARM OF CROATIA AND SLOVENIA OVERSHADOWS THE FEAR OF THE PANDEMIC
LOS ANGELES – Walking on the streets of the oldtown in Split, a small city in Croatia where the Diocletian Palace is situated, we were among the few tourists with…
A VISIT TO A ONCE NUCLEAR ARMED MISSILE LAUNCH SILO IN SOUTH DAKOTA
In a recent visit to Rapid City in South Dakota, while my main target was to view Mount Rushmore where the statues of four U.S. presidents were sculptured out of…
THE LAND OF GLACIERS AND VOLCANOES ATTRACTS ME EVEN WHEN THE PANDEMIC IS NOT OVER
LOS ANGELES – To go or not to go, that remained a question that had been haunting me for some time. But Iceland, a land with both glaciers and volcanoes,…