What do return narratives tell us about a changing world? As China has risen to economic power, a trend in Chinese American literature has emerged.

A researcher visits the UK National Archives in search of Malaya.

“The work of journalism is bound up in paying attention and noticing things. That’s kind of how I go through the world, with an antenna up for the unexpected, the beautiful, or the moving.”

I am no longer striving to understand something foreign, or to earn some measure of acceptance or belonging that I don’t deserve. I am here, simply, to see the land that my family came from, to know that we have been here before.

Rather than fly to China to visit their departed loved ones, a growing number of Chinese Americans are opting to bring their family members’ remains to the U.S.

Why Donald Trump is so wrong about comparing his planned U.S. border wall with the Great Wall of China.

Cha, chai or te? A Richmond Hill family’s multiple ways of preparing what Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu called “the elixir of life.”

“My strength is writing about Chinese people and dirtbags, and Chinese dirtbags.”