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Tensions Over Taiwan
The recent visit of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan was not well-received by Beijing at all.
In retaliation, the People’s Republic of China dramatically scaled up military exercises in the Taiwan Strait. It canceled eight key dialogs with the U.S. It banned export of natural sand to the island state and halted imports of agricultural and fish products from Taiwan.
In video “Tensions over Taiwan", three experts at The University of Wisconsin shed light on the economic and strategic implications of Taiwan’s semiconductor industry globally should Taiwan be governed by the PRC.
Well worth watching.
World premiere performance: “Encounter in Liu Ming Yuan”
In the bright and colorful China Garden (Liu Ming Yuan), a colorful golden pheasant dances, so lively and lovely, among the blooming peonies. Their dance evokes friendship and mutual understanding and is a celebration of Chinese and Hmong cultures.
By Linda Mealey-Lohmann | MCFGS co-founder, secretary, project manager | September 2022
Add a commentMoon Festival brought Chinese Garden in Phalen Park to life
By Romi Slowiak | MN Chinese Friendship Garden Society Board member | October 2022
Photo credit: MCFGS board members and attendees
If Mid-Autumn Festival is the penultimate family event in China, we here in Minnesota showed the world we also know how to build community guangxi under the full moon!
Poetry, gardens and Chinese culture
by Romi Slowiak | Minnesota Chinese Friendship Garden Society | September 2022
Greg Hugh, China Insight publisher, Outstanding Service Award recipient
By Elaine Dunn | September 2022
It’s been long-time coming that someone who has played a critical connective-tissue role in the local Chinese community be recognized for his contribution. On Sept. 9, Greg Hugh, co-founder and publisher of China Insight, received the Outstanding Service Award at the Council on Asia Pacific Minnesotans Dinner held at the Heritage Center in Brooklyn Center.
Publisher’s Pronouncements (October 2022)
While we are moving farther into the autumn season, October is still staying a bit steamy. Strong chances of rain over the weekend might dampen your chances to check out early fall colors, but most of the precipitation is expected in northeastern Minnesota.
Greg Hugh, China Insight publisher, Outstanding Service Award recipient
By Elaine Dunn
It’s been long-time coming that someone who has played a critical connective-tissue role in the local Chinese community be recognized for his contribution. On Sept. 9, Greg Hugh, co-founder and publisher of China Insight, received the Outstanding Service Award at the Council on Asia Pacific Minnesotans Dinner held at the Heritage Center in Brooklyn Center.
The award recognizes someone from the community who has “made significant contributions to the Asian Pacific Minnesotan community.”
In his acceptance speech, Hugh said, “The U.S.-China relationship is currently one of the most complex bilateral relationship for the United States. Over the last 30 years, Sino-American relations have undergone an impressive transformation from animosity and conflict to candid dialogue and constructive cooperation … Although there is not too much we can do to change whatever trajectory is in motion, the Chinese community needs to become more proactive and become more involved as citizens by getting involved in politics, charitable giving and other activities to shatter the “model minority” label and work together instead as factions within their own communities. We need to get young people involved in organizations of all kinds that can benefit the API communities.”
Boulevard of broken dreams: the case against manufacturing in Asia
By Jorge Gonzales, contributor | June 2022
In April, China's manufacturing output fell to its lowest level in two years, according to official data. The figures were the latest sign of economic pain as Beijing maintains its uncompromising zero-COVID response.
Dozens of cities, including Shenzhen and Shanghai, have been partially or fully sealed off in recent months. The restrictions have disrupted global supply chains while goods pile up at the world's busiest container ports.
BBQ-to-go, but not what / how you think
By Elaine Dunn | September 2022
Hong Kong is a foodie’s paradise. And one of the latest new offering affirms its place in food innovation.
“The Many Daughters of Afong Moy” author Jamie Ford’s Minneapolis book tour
By Ralph Beha, USCPFA-MN | contributor | September 2022
Chinese-American novelist Jamie Ford charmed his audience at an author event on the evening of Aug. 9, which featured his newly released novel “The Many Daughters of Afong Moy.”
Ford, whose Chinese forebears first came to the U.S. in the 1860s, warmed up the crowd by reading several amusing tweets and posts with student reactions to his earlier best-selling (debut) novel “House on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” ˗ an “assigned reading” at many secondary schools.
CAPI hosts Asian-Pacific Leadership Award dinner Sept. 9
ChinaInsight publisher Greg Hugh has been named a winner of the Outstanding Service Award by the Council on Asian PAcific Minnesotans. The award will be presented at the Asian Pacific Leadership Awards Dinner on Sept. 9 at the Earle Brown Heritage Center. in Brooklyn Center. Details on p.5 of current issue.
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Greetings:
The staff of ChinaInsight are pleased to reconnect with you after enjoying our own summer hiatus that we normally take during the month of August. Our all-volunteer staff have had a chance to recharge. We hope your summer has been a fulfilling one, although a bit too hot for my taste.
The 2021-2022 Chinese American Association of Minnesota - Stanley Chong Scholarship Award Ceremony Held in Central Park, Roseville
By Zan Gao| Photos by Simon Li and Kevin Ren
Chinese American Association of Minnesota (CAAM) is the oldest and largest Chinese American community organization in Minnesota. On June 5, 2022, the CAAM held its 2021-2022 Stanley Chong Scholarship Award Ceremony at Central Park in Roseville City, Minnesota. This was the first time since the COVID-19 outbreak that the CAAM held a major event in the relatively safe outdoors.
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Greetings:
As many of you are aware, record high temperatures have been set all week long in portions of the Midwest and South. Minneapolis set a daily record-high on June 20 with a high temperature of 101 degrees, breaking the old record of 98 degrees. It was also the first 100-degree day in the Twin Cities since May 2018. We should consider ourselves fortunate since the rest of the country is experiencing more severe, unusual climatic events while other parts of the world have endured an earthquake that killed more than 1,000 people and South Asia experienced unprecedented floods.
“The Many Daughters of Afong Moy” by Jamie Ford
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Author: Jamie Ford Publisher: Atria Books Publication date: August 2022 Hardcover: 384 pages Jamie Ford is the great-grandson of Nevada mining pioneer Min Chung, who emigrated from Hoiping, China to San Francisco in 1865, where he adopted the western name Ford. His debut novel, “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,” spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list and went on to win the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. His work has been translated into 35 languages. Having grown up in Seattle, he now lives in Montana with his wife and a one-eyed pug. |
Publisher’s Pronouncements (June 2022)
Greetings:
As the Twin Cities, along with the rest of the world, continues to deal with COVID-19, we can take some solace in that it has abated somewhat but need to continue to be vigilant since we are a long way from getting the virus under control. Regardless, summer has arrived in Minnesota, so it is time to enjoy the outdoors and continue resuming as “normal” a life as possible.
Abortions and population growth in mainland China
By Elaine Dunn | June 2022
Following a leak of the draft opinion indicating the U.S. Supreme Court justices may overturn Roe v. Wade, many Americans are up in arms. CNN reported a Marquette Law School poll taken a week after the leak showed the Supreme Court’s approval rating among Democrats declined from 49% in March 2022 to 26%. Meanwhile, for Republicans, it increased slightly from 64% to 68%.
Minneapolis native veteran actor James Hong gets star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame
By Greg Hugh | June 2022
Last month, veteran actor James Hong received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, making history as the oldest person to accept the honor at 93. Located between Madame Tussauds Wax Museum and the TCL Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, Hong’s star became the 2,723rd star awarded on the Walk of Fame.
Chinese and their two-wheelers
By Elaine Dunn | June 2022
“… people ride on a vehicle with only two wheels, which is held together by a pipe. They sit above this pipe and push forward with movements of their feet. They dash along like galloping horses.”
“China Through European Eyes: 800 Years of Cultural and Intellectual Encounter” by Kerry Brown and Gemma Chenger Deng
Reviewed by John Butler | Asian Review of Books | April 30, 2022
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Authors: Kerry Brown & Gemma Chenger Deng Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co. Publication date: April 2022 Hardcover: 344 pages
Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King's College London. He is an Associate of the Asia Pacific Programme at Chatham House, London, an adjunct of the Australia New Zealand School of Government in Melbourne, and the co-editor of the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, run by the German Institute for Global Affairs in Hamburg. He is President-Elect of the Kent Archaeological Society. Gemma Chenger Deng, is a Ph.D. candidate at King’s College London and research assistant to Brown. |
Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month
By Greg Hugh
The month of May is traditionally a time to celebrate, recognize and pay tribute to the heritage of Asian Pacific American people who have enriched our country’s history and culture.
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