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...Which makes it all the more disappointing that the narrative in The Chinese in America is too often drowned out by Chang's shrill homilies on the politics of identity . In a discussion of the formation of benevolent associations in San Francisco's Chinatown, she writes: "The white man's government had demonstrated that its mission was to suppress, not protect, Chinese interests." At times, her legitimate attempts to tackle negative racial stereotypes get lost in a flurry of equally clich?d?and occasionally jingoistic?tributes to Chinese-ness. After quoting an American who is impressed that the first foreign-language...
...gotten the schedule down to a science. Get on a Chinatown bus early on Friday afternoon—exhausted after the few hours I’ve spent working at the offices of Harvard Magazine (on top of an endless production night preparing The Crimson for its morning publication). Arrive in the city in time to catch a show, dinner or (if I’m lucky) swing-dancing at Lincoln Center. After a weekend of friends, family and fun, hop on another bus on Sunday afternoon.And for less than the cost of a long cab ride...
Shaw Natsui ’05, the director of PBHA’s Chinatown Adventure Summer, said that his camp had been unable to hire as many junior counselors as usual this year due to a change in the age requirements imposed by the Boston Youth Fund (BYF) on the junior counselors whose hiring they pay for. Instead of hiring students between the ages of 14 and 17, BYF restricted its hires this year to those between...
...Natsui said that he, too, was unsure what would happen to the campers Chinatown Adventure has been unable to enroll...
...film has an interestingly hybrid pedigree. Its producer was John Heyman, who helped arrange financing for Chinatown and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Heyman took the project to Bill Bright, founder of the Evangelical ministry Campus Crusade, who obtained a $3.5 million loan guarantee from Texas oil baron Nelson Bunker Hunt. (The film eventually cost $6 million.) Campus Crusade says it consulted with hundreds of scholars and Christian leaders before the movie was made and cast it with Yemenite Jews--except for Jesus, who is played by British actor Brian Deacon...