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Chinese-Americans' history ascends new stages

Between 1910 and 1940, a million immigrants passed through Angel Island, a speck of land in the middle of San Francisco Bay. But the Chinese, about 175,000 of them, were singled out for detention and interrogation at the immigration station, packed ...

From BONNIE TSUI, Boston Globe,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Museum of Chinese in America,  Maya Lin,  Mulberry (designer),  David Henry Hwang,  Ha Jin

Stay in style

Maybe it’s the fact that the First Family hails from here, but Chicago has lately upped its hipness quotient. Who needs the Olympics when the buzz is on in the city’s thriving art, design, and restaurant scenes? Hoteliers have made their own strong bid ...

From BONNIE TSUI, Boston Globe,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: In Style,  Ritz-Carlton,  Warren G. Harding,  U.S. Republican Party,  Renzo Piano

The man behind Mickey and the theme parks

The original name for Walt Disney’s famous cartoon mouse certainly didn’t roll off a child’s tongue in the same way that Mickey did, and Lillian Disney knew it (she persuaded her husband to change it). It’s one of the quirky historical details ...

From BONNIE TSUI, Boston Globe,  23 Oct 2009
Related Topics: DreamWorks,  Pixar,  Greta Garbo,  Jean Harlow,  Clark Gable

Surfers Are Here! El Salvador Sheds Its Image

IT is sunset on Estero de Jaltepeque, a glassy, tranquil estuary in El Salvador whose liquid fingers lead to winding mangrove forests filled with egrets and herons. Its channels link up with the Río Lempa one of the longest rivers in Central America, ...

From BONNIE TSUI, The New York Times,  12 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Andy Taylor

Next Stop: Surfers Are Here! El Salvador Sheds Its Image

IT is sunset on Estero de Jaltepeque, a glassy, tranquil estuary in El Salvador whose liquid fingers lead to winding mangrove forests filled with egrets and herons. Its channels link up with the Río Lempa one of the longest rivers in Central America, ...

From BONNIE TSUI, International Herald Tribune,  11 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Andy Taylor

Blazing New Trails in Native American Lands

ON the road through the tree-studded high desert toward the small town of Chinle, Ariz., the car radio was bringing in the local Navajo station, with a playlist heavy in Top 40 hits, peppered with Navajo-language station breaks and car commercials. The ...

From BONNIE TSUI, The New York Times,  20 Aug 2009
Related Topics: John Wayne

A Room With Unending Views, Even in the Dark

IT was dawn at the Calpine fire lookout in the Tahoe National Forest, and early morning light had begun to bathe the horizon in a warm pink glow. Inside the lookout’s observation cab, surrounded by walls of windows, I could be a queen in my own private ...

From BONNIE TSUI, The New York Times,  11 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Calpine,  United States Forest Service

Timing the Tides, Then Digging for Your Supper on the Hood Canal

AFTER three minutes of digging on a muddy and shell-strewn beach along the shores of the Hood Canal in Washington State, I had gathered enough shellfish for a pretty mean paella. I don’t mean to brag it sure wasn’t through any skill of my own. The Hood ...

From BONNIE TSUI, The New York Times,  30 Apr 2009

Fitness: Ultimate Frisbee Takes Off

WHEN Susan Batchelder first played Ultimate Frisbee, 11 years ago, it was with the ultimate hippies. “It was in Omaha, where I grew up,” said Ms. Batchelder, a 29-year-old fourth-grade teacher who lives in Oakland, Calif. As a senior in high school, ...

From BONNIE TSUI, The New York Times,  29 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Burning Man

Hainan Island, a Chinese tropical haven

The sun is out, the sand gleaming white, the waves rolling toward shore in clean, regular sets. At the edge of this palm-fringed paradise, the sea is a pale, minty hue and empty of people. Launching my surfboard from the beach on Hainan Island, I ...

From BONNIE TSUI, International Herald Tribune,  16 Mar 2009

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