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Gene Luen Yang remembers feeling pumped in 2007 when Hollywood came calling about his trailblazing graphic novel “American Born Chinese.” But that excitement turned into exasperation when it became cl ...

Experts point to crackdown on national security and legal system that encourages guilty pleas
Chinese courts prosecuted 8.3 million people in the five years to 2022, a 12% increase on the previous period. There was also a nearly 20% increase in the number of protests against court rulings.
The figures released by the supreme people’s procuratorate (SPP) in March give a glimpse of how China’s notoriously opaque justice system has operated in recent years, amid a tightening domestic security environment.

Asian American students are forced to achieve higher grades and test scores in order to overcome negative racial stereotypes.

A dependence on food and energy imports could be China’s biggest weakness in a potential future conflict with Taiwan
Not much could unite Peng Lifa, the activist who disappeared after staging a in Beijing last year, and Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader who Peng was criticising. But in October 2022, both men diagnosed the same vulnerability in China: food.
“We want food, not PCR tests,” read Peng’s bright red characters, emblazoned on a banner hung over Beijing’s Sitong Bridge on 13 October. Three days later, Xi gave a speech to the Chinese Communist party (CCP) about how to “hold high the great banner of Socialism with Chinese characteristics”.

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State Assemblymember Alex Lee, whose District 24 has the highest Asian population in the state, celebrated Asian American Heritage Month on May 19 by recognizing four community members and two ...

Chinese Americans who New York's Columbia University surveyed said they had been physically assaulted or intimidated in the last year.

Although China hopes to cut its reliance on foreign technology, many of the C919’s parts are sourced from overseas
China’s first domestically produced passenger jet took off on its maiden commercial flight on Sunday, a milestone event in the nation’s decades-long effort to compete with western rivals in the air.
Beijing hopes the C919 commercial jetliner will challenge foreign models like the Boeing 737 MAX and the Airbus A320, though many of its parts are sourced from abroad.

Virginia parent Xi Van Fleet, lifelong San Francisco resident Tom Wong and former congressional candidate Elizabeth Heng joined 'Fox & Friends Weekend' to discuss voting trends in the Asian community.

For Asian American and Pacific Islander History Month, the Houston Chronicle spoke to Houstonians about their immigration stories and what makes Houston feel like home. “The Asian community ...

Artist Jasmine Cho makes exquisite portraits that champion famous and forgotten Asian Americans. Her canvas? "Cookies, I've always said, are the perfect platform for education, activism and healing ...