Why Doesn’t China Let Baba Go Home?
I wrote an essay for InCulture Parent about our efforts to keep our children’s Chinese identity alive when their father cannot travel home. Please read it here. And for those who haven’t read it...
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Dragon Songs
I am not a big fan of Chinese children’s music. Yet over the past seven years I have spent innumerable hours listening to it, in all it’s synthesized, saccharine sweetness, and have learned to tune it...
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Welcoming the Dragon
[Cartoon by Chen Chunming via China Media Project] We are already on Day 5 of the Year of the Dragon, but it is not too late to celebrate. Lunar New Year is a two-week celebration, from the first new...
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The Art of Jimmy Liao
A couple of years ago, my children received a book in the mail from their grandmother, Sound of Colors by Jimmy Liao. I had never heard of the author but was intrigued as soon as I opened it. His...
View ArticleMonkey takes New York
My family and I just returned from a trip to New York, where we had the pleasure of seeing Monkey: Journey to the West at Lincoln Center. Produced by Blur’s Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett and Chen...
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Happy Year of the Horse!
Tonight marks the end of the Year of the Snake and the entrance of the Year of the Horse. The World of Chinese has a nice post explaining how to behave to increase your chances of a lucky horse year....
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Celebrating Lunar New Year
Happy New Year! Today is the first day of the Year of the Wood Horse. The Chinese New Year holiday lasts two weeks, from the new moon to the full moon, and each day has special significance. On the...
View ArticleBilingual and Proud
During the Super Bowl, Coca-Cola aired an ad which showed heartwarming images of American families set to the soundtrack of “America the Beautiful,” sung in various languages. When an outspoken and...
View ArticleLet It Go, 放开手，随它吧
Since my daughter (like every other kid in the country, it seems) can’t stop singing Let It Go, the theme song from Frozen, I thought I may as well have her learn it in Mandarin too: But then I noticed...
View ArticleTalking about snow in Chinese
For those of you stuck at home on the east coast of the U.S., or elsewhere in the world that is not California, here is the adorable Jessica Beinecke of Crazy Fresh Chinese introducing some...
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