Not your exotic trophy
The Half of It
But I am not a doll for anyone to parade around and brag about. I am not a dish spiced mildly enough to round out a white man’s palate without challenging his Eurocentric views.
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Tag Archives: Chinese
The names they’ve called me
The Half of It
“Oh God, not again,” I thought to myself as a new Tinder match messaged me. “So… what are you?” I could honestly make a living from charging $5 every time I’ve been asked this question. My ethnic ambiguity is so confusing to people that they feel entitled to know exactly
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Call me by my (full) name
The Half of It
Learning to embrace my name has been a constant struggle. In both China and America, people attempt to use modified versions of my full name to make me palatable. I no longer, however, am compelled to break myself into pieces to fit in. Both my Chinese and Jewish-American heritages are central to my identity.
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Model Minority
Cal in Color
Seared into my memory is the first time I fought with my friends. We were in ninth-grade world history when my friend offhandedly joked, “Yeah, but Rona’s Asian and has a big house, so she wouldn’t get what we’re going through.” “Excuse me?” I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
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UC Berkeley suspends new research collaborations with telecommunications giant Huawei
UC Berkeley announced Jan. 30 that it has suspended new collaborations with and research funding from Chinese telecommunications giant and electronics manufacturer Huawei as well as its corporate subsidiaries and affiliates after the U.S. Department of Justice, or DOJ, brought criminal charges against the company.
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‘You Mean to Do Me Harm’ captivates, dramatizes everyday conversation
The entirety of “You Mean to Do Me Harm” revolves around a short comment made about a past camping trip. What would usually be a passing comment is turned into a tension-filled series of conversations, all incredibly suspenseful despite its apparent mundanity.
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Mini paradise in a sweltering city: My first days in Shanghai
For me, paradise is dirt-cheap street food surrounded by people from all over the world who have stories to tell and wisdom to impart.
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‘Soft Power’ shows future of political theater to be one still bursting with humor and heart
Throughout its sharp critique of American musicals and the culture from which they are made, “Soft Power” still manages to play like a love letter to all it is critiquing.
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The cursed blessing of subtitles
Film would not be film, cannot be film, without the written word.
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99 years: Armistice Day in Berkeley, 1918
It was the day of the armistice, when the German forces had formally surrendered to the Allies in France. The news could not have been more welcome.
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