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Not Home for the Holidays: An Unusual Chinese New Year

The Chinese saying of “moneyed or not, return home for Chinese New Year” (有钱没钱回家过年, yǒuqián méi qián huíjiā guònián) endures

Here in Turkey, where I live, we are currently subject to weeknight curfews and weekend lockdowns. They began at the

It takes us two hours—by bus, train, ferry, and foot—to get from our flat in Hong Kong’s New Territories to

I didn’t believe in reverse culture shock until I experienced it for myself. Everyone knows about culture shock — that

Among the rituals I observe every morning when I arrive bleary-eyed to work, nothing perks up my senses more than

We’ve just said farewell (or good riddance!) to 2020, a year marked by unprecedented and unusual challenges that have affected

Since I was a child, I was always fascinated by how the skin and the appearance of Asians looked so

How’s the COVID situation in China? I hesitated to type a response to my friend back in the US, as

China has long been known as a world leader in using natural elements to cure illnesses and improve health. Their

My first Chinese New Year experience was not what I was expecting. Of course, before I married into a Chinese