Category: USA

I was driving in the opposite direction that I were supposed to be going. I didn’t know this at the time, blissfully ignorant of our impending doom. I was riding with a scruffy, silver-maned old man in the darkening night, listening to his ever more fanatical stories of his alternative church….

The origin of Chinatowns in the United States is an interesting one. According to my professor of Chinese history, virtually all second or more generation Chinese people in the United States are from Taishan (台山), a small region in the Guangdong (Canton) province. This is because when U.S. ships first…

Growing up in the United States, my image of New York was invariably shaped by its portrayal in mass media. Movies like Goodfellas and the canonical macho Frat classic that is the Godfather (take nothing away from its cinematic brilliance) portray a side of New York seeped in Italian American…