Chicago Sun-Times July 15, 2025 People from all walks of life gather for the weekly Argyle Night Market. Photo: Amy Yee/Sun-Times Chicago’s only weekly festival launched in 2013 to ‘take […]
A cultural landmark in Vancouver Chinatown opens July 1, the 100th anniversary of Canada’s Chinese Exclusion Act. By Amy Yee June 30, 2023 In the gleaming new Chinese Canadian Museum in Vancouver’s Chinatown […]
Advocates from New York, San Francisco, Chicago and 15 other cities met in Vancouver for the first time to share their challenges with racism and gentrification in Asian communities. June 20, […]
Bloomberg CityLabOctober 25, 2022 One Chinatown museum has opened as part of Canada’s redress for past discrimination, while another nearby fosters “hope for the future.” At the new Chinese Canadian Museum in […]
The Economist April 16, 2020 GO TO THE ARTICLE Why, Jewish children asked at the Passover meal last week, is this night different from all others? The question is stipulated […]
BY AMY YEE March 17, 2020 Massachusetts Review http://massreview.org/sites/default/files/10_61.1Yee.pdf A 61-year-old man from Harbin, China, a retired truck driver who spoke zero English, was solo backpacking in the Balkans. Why? […]
NPR Students at the Dhow Countries Music Academy, dedicated to preserving the music known as “taarab,” play on a balcony overlooking Zanzibar’s port. Amy Yee for NPR Amy Yee September […]
The Daily Beast March 6, 2017 The civil rights pioneer and author found his final home—and his burial site—in Ghana, the first African country to win independence from colonial rule. […]
Electric Literature October 7, 2016 A walk in India’s capital with Akhil Sharma, winner of the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award Author Akhil Sharma visiting ruins in Delhi, spring 2012. Credit: […]
NPR November 3, 2015 East of Eden, John Steinbeck’s 1952 novel, is on stage at Chicago’s legendary Steppenwolf Theater through November 15. I remember reading the book as a teenager […]
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