When violinist Alyssa Wang lost her father to liver cancer, she was at a loss for words. So, she turned to music. “After he passed away, I was looking for a musical way to express all of the grief, ...

As an Asian American rapper, Kold Kwan is aware that he’s challenging the status quo. “I know that I’m not gonna be everyone’s cup of tea,” Kwan, 29, said in an interview with Sampan. But he’s more ...

For years, Paul Watanabe, director of the Institute for Asian American Studies at UMass-Boston, would get a version of the same question from policymakers and journalists: What issues do Asian ...

The quality of a picture book depends on the compatibility of two major elements: the words and the images. How well do the images communicate with the text? Are the images competing with the text, or ...

The balance between creating a trendy world in Fantasy novels or contemporary Young Adult (YA) fiction and managing to say something that matters can be tricky. More often than not, genre fiction asks ...

Born in China, I was raised in Boston's Chinatown. The Chinatown neighborhood has been my home all my life. With myself and my little sister both proud alumni of Boston Public Schools right from ...

When a reader has to walk that vulnerable space between style and substance, falling deeply into the former at the sake of the latter, there’s a literary problem. If a writer consistently offers a ...

Walking through Chinatown today, you will encounter layers of its identity: the memories of a Chinatown long gone, the visions of a Chinatown that could have been, the Chinatown that remains a home ...

Jodie Nealley has had a tumultuous history with gambling. Her addiction started in 2005 following a work excursion to a casino, Nealley explained late last month at a panel discussion at the Asian ...

Who organized the first Chinese buffet? It is an intriguing question, with some claiming that the Joyce Chen Restaurant in Cambridge, MA invented the Chinese buffet around 1960. However, after some ...