Tan Kah Kee and overseas Chinese investment
In my post for Asian-Nation about Mainland and Taiwan influence in overseas Chinese schools, I wrote about a passage from my Chinese school days that was clearly Nationalist propaganda. Recently, [...]
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Balancing American, Mainland, and Taiwanese influences in Chinese language schools
C.N. Le of Asian-Nation has graciously invited me to contribute to his blog, which was one of the first (if not the first) sociology blog looking specifically at Asian Americans. [...]
Blacks, Latinos, and the push to learn Chinese
I include the trailer for Speaking in Tongues because although the bilingual education debate in the United States is usually focused around Spanish speakers, the filmmakers chose to emphasize Mandarin [...]