U.S. academics of Chinese descent organize and speak out—with caution

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Descent

Minor Feelings in the Wake of the Atlanta Attack: How a Mom of Asian Descent Spent the First 100 hours in the Aftermath

2021 ◽  
pp. 153270862110199
Author(s):  
Pengfei Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
American Poet ◽  
Asian Descent ◽  
Chinese Descent ◽  
Mass Shooting

This autoethnographic writing documents how a family of Chinese descent spent their first 100 hours after the Atlanta Shooting on March 16, 2021, in which a White gunman killed eight people, including six Asian women. It bears witness to the rise of the anti-Asian racism in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic and offers a snapshot of the private life of a family of Asian descent in the dawn of the Stop Asian Hate Movement. Drawing on Korean American poet Cathy Park Hong’s term minor feelings, this essay explores how emotions, rooted in racialized lived experience and triggered by the mass shooting, evolved, shifted, and fueled the sentiments that gave rise to the Stop Asian Hate Movement. Compared with the more visible violence against Asians and Asian Americans displayed on social media, it interrogates the less visible traumatic experience that haunts Asian and Asian American communities.

scholarly journals S. W. Williams’ Relations with Asa Gray: Lifelong Friendship, Botany and Sinology

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-80
Author(s):  
So Chit-Shing
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Chinese Descent ◽  
American Botanist ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Asa Gray

Abstract Samuel Wells Williams was a well-known missionary, diplomat and sinologist. In his whole life, he never gave up his pursuit on botany, however, there was not much attention to his botanical accomplishment. Williams had a lifelong friendship with Asa Gray, who was the most distinguished American botanist in the 19th century. And because of the contact, Williams related with botany indeed. In order to figure out their friendship and influence, this article is going to use the correspondences between Williams and Gray, besides the related publications. This article first presents Williams’ lifelong friendship with Gray, then, accounts for the plants and seeds which Williams gave to Gray. Finally, it will demonstrate the influence of Gray towards Williams’ contact with Ko Kun-hua, who was the first professor of Chinese descent at Harvard University.

Masks and Selves in Contemporary Java: The Dances of Didik Nini Thowok

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Mrázek
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Chinese Descent ◽  
And Gender

This essay reflects on the plays of masks and selves in the dances and the life of Didik Nini Thowok, and the resonances between dance and life. An Indonesian of Chinese descent and a female impersonator whose comic dances combine different regional styles, Didik upsets notions of ethnic and gender stereotypes and identities, the notion of identity itself.

State, Myth, and Agency in the Construction of Chinese South African Identities, 1948–1994

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoon Jung Park
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
African State ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Fourth Generation ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Chinese Descent ◽  
Racial Ethnic

AbstractBased on the author's PhD research, this article focuses on the fluid and contested nature of the identities — racial, ethnic, and national — of people of Chinese descent in South Africa in the apartheid and post-apartheid eras. The research focuses on the approximately 12,000-strong community of second-, third-, and fourth-generation South African-born Chinese South Africans. It reveals that Chinese South Africans played an active role in identity construction using Chinese history, myths and culture, albeit within the constraints established by apartheid. During the latter part of apartheid, movement up the socio-economic ladder and gradual social acceptance by white South Africa propelled them into nebulous, interstitial spaces; officially they remained “non-white” but increasingly they were viewed as “honorary whites.” During the late 1970s and 1980s, the South African state attempted to redefine Chinese as “white” but these attempts failed because Chinese South Africans were unwilling to sacrifice their unique ethnic identity, which helped them to survive the more dehumanizing aspects of life under apartheid.

scholarly journals Ahok Dalam Berita Maya

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-152
Author(s):  
Novian Anata Putra
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Quantitative Content Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Racial Issues ◽  
Chinese Descent

Every society is flooded by Information in the Internet era. News sites as one of the sources of information are now numerous. However, do these bits of information worth to be trusted fully? Through quantitative content analysis, the researcher tried to examine one of the news sites based on religion (Islamic hardliners), VOA-Islam, in reporting Basuki Tjahaja Purnama a.k.a Ahok, which incidentally is a non-Muslim Chinese descent. Using Jurgen Westerstahl’s objectivity approach (1983), found the fact that the news presented by VOA-Islam does not contain elements of balance, even most of it shows a negative tendency, cornered Ahok as a central figure in DKI Jakarta. In fact, from the dimensions of relevance, the percentage of news from VOA-Islam, which has a significant effect to the activity of community life and proximity to the topic of the public, are quite high. In addition to the large amount of news that contains racial issues, it becomes worrisome because it could lead to the disintegration of the nation.

scholarly journals Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-62
Author(s):  
A.P. Mitha ◽  
J.H. Wong ◽  
S.J. du Plessis
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Neck Pain ◽  
Type Ii Diabetes ◽  
Posterior Longitudinal Ligament ◽  
Type Ii Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Past Medical History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Chinese Descent ◽  
History Of

A 51-year-old gentleman of Chinese descent presented for neurological evaluation following a two-year history of cervical neck pain associated with left arm numbness. His symptoms were initially stable, but had progressed over the past six months to include weakness of his entire left arm and leg and symptoms of bladder urgency. Two weeks prior to presentation, he suffered repeated falls due to worsening gait difficulties. The past medical history was significant for type II diabetes mellitus.

scholarly journals Global Imaginaries and Global Capital: Lawrence Chua’s Gold by the Inch and Spaces of Global Belonging

MANUSYA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 49-69
Author(s):  
Christopher Patterson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Attitude ◽  
Global Capital ◽  
Chinese Descent ◽  
Bear Witness

The unnamed narrator in Lawrence Chua’s novel Gold by the Inch is multiply queered. He appears to the reader as a gay Thai/Malay migrant of Chinese descent living in the United States. As a traveler, his encounters with episodes of sexual desire lead him to different notions of belonging as his race, class, and sexuality travel with him, marking him as an out sider from one space to another. Likewise, every instance of mobility challenges his identity, allowing him to bear witness to unique forms of structural violence relative to whichever locality he happens to be in. In short, Chua’s narrator is faced with oppressions based on radical assumptions by the outside world that utilize his race, gender, sexuality, and American cultural identity as indicators for an insurmountable cultural attitude.

scholarly journals Molecular characterization of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency in patients of Chinese descent and identification of new base substitutions in the human G6PD gene

Blood ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 81 (8) ◽  
pp. 2150-2154 ◽  
Author(s):  
DT Chiu ◽  
L Zuo ◽  
L Chao ◽  
E Chen ◽  
E Louie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
G6pd Deficiency ◽  
Point Mutations ◽  
Nucleotide Substitutions ◽  
New Findings ◽  
G6pd Gene ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
Chinese Descent ◽  
Glucose 6 Phosphate Dehydrogenase ◽  
Sequencing Procedure

Abstract The underlying DNA changes associated with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD)-deficient Asians have not been extensively investigated. To fill this gap, we sequenced the G6PD gene of 43 G6PD- deficient Chinese whose G6PD was well characterized biochemically. DNA samples were obtained from peripheral blood of these individuals for sequencing using a direct polymerase chain reaction (PCR) sequencing procedure. From these 43 samples, we have identified five different types of nucleotide substitutions in the G6PD gene: at cDNA 1388 from G to A (Arg to His); at cDNA 1376 from G to T (Arg to Leu); at cDNA 1024 from C to T (Leu to Phe); at cDNA 392 from G to T (Gly to Val); at cDNA 95 from A to G (His to Arg). These five nucleotide substitutions account for over 83% of our 43 G6PD-deficient samples and these substitutions have not been reported in non-Asians. The substitutions found at cDNA 392 and cDNA 1024 are new findings. The substitutions at cDNA 1376 and 1388 account for over 50% of the 43 samples examined indicating a high prevalence of these two alleles among G6PD-deficient Chinese. Our findings add support to the notion that diverse point mutations may account largely for much of the phenotypic heterogeneity of G6PD deficiency.

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