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Chinese diaspora

Chinese diaspora
The latest news, analysis and opinion on Chinese diaspora. In-depth analysis, industry insights and expert opinion.
Artisanal cookie brand Sucré, founded by Hong Kong-born Louise Lui and her French partner Victor Selle, introduced Asian flavours – from miso cookies to iced lemon tea – to a small French town. Photo: Sucré
Food and Drinks

‘Extreme reviews’: cookie brand woos small-town France with Hong Kong tastes

Louise Lui founded Sucré in her French partner’s hometown to bridge cultures with East-meets-West treats. Not everyone got it immediately.

Food and Drinks

Chinese Restaurant Awards 2026: Mott 32 takes Canadian top spot

Asian diaspora

Opinion | China is leveraging its diaspora to boost the economy, unlike India

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US midterm elections 2026

The surprising gender gap now redefining the Chinese-American electorate

New data challenges common perception that the United States’ Asian communities form a reliable voting bloc for Democrats.

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Food and Drinks

Video | Hong Kong bakeries 101

Food and Drinks

Video | The evolution of sweet and sour pork

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Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)

Flagging libido? Can’t conceive? How TCM treats sexual problems

Traditional Chinese medicine may help with a number of sexual health concerns, say experts. In women, these include infertility issues. In men, TCM can help with erectile dysfunction and sexual anxiety.

Traditional Chinese medicine may help with a number of sexual health concerns, say experts, including infertility issues. Photo: Shutterstock
Thailand

Opinion | Language barrier, stereotypes frustrate new Chinese migrants to Thailand

Unlike earlier Chinese migrants to Thailand, many ‘xin yimin’ report finding social interactions with local Thais challenging – and often turn to their compatriots instead.

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Chinese overseas

Is the sun setting on San Francisco’s Six Companies?

Once a de facto embassy for Chinese immigrants in the US, the Chinatown association faces declines in membership, finances and influence, eclipsed by other service organisations.

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Chinese cuisine

‘Nostalgia is my favourite ingredient’: new Cantonese cuisine in America

For many Chinese-Americans, eating Cantonese food was a way to connect with their heritage. Young Chinese-American chefs and bakers are taking foods from their childhood and giving them a modern spin.

Berkshire pork char siu at Ryan Wong’s Needle restaurant. Photo: Erin Shea Ferraro
China’s soft power

Letters | China’s soft power goals hardly served by brash media drives

Interpersonal relationships might be one of the most effective mechanisms for shaping China’s image. Even if those relationships are made through Chinese individuals critical of their own government, China might benefit in the long term.

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Portuguese professional football club players pose with Chinese children ahead of a game, during a brief ceremony to express solidarity with China’s fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, at the Luz stadium in Lisbon on February 15, 2020. Photo: Xinhua
Chinese history

‘They had no English and no power’: life in London’s Chinatown

The first Chinese to arrive in Britain in the late 18th century set themselves up in Limehouse, East London, where they built a thriving community, despite the lurid image painted of them by the gutter press.

Academy Awards

Chloé Zhao on fangirling, storytelling and how Nomadland came to be

Zhao made history as the first Asian woman to win the Oscar for best director, but how exactly did she conceive of her award-winning film, and how did she get where she is today?

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Racism and other prejudice

Slant-eyed gestures, Chinese accent: Italian TV sketch launches racism debate

Hosts Michelle Hunziker and Gerry Scotti apologise, saying they have received death threats in a ‘wave of hatred’.

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TV host Michelle Hunziker arrives at the Green Carpet Fashion Awards in Milan in September 2019. Photo: AP
Hong Kong

Say you are a Hongkonger, not only Chinese, Canada census campaigners urge

The “I Am Hong Konger” campaign aims to boost recognition of an identity that organisers say is under threat of erasure.

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A crowd watches cupcakes being iced in the form of a Canadian flag during Canada Day celebrations in Richmond, British Columbia, on July 1, 2017. Richmond is the most ethnically Chinese city in the world outside Asia, and home to large numbers of Hong Kong and mainland Chinese immigrants. Photo: AFP
Racism and other prejudice

Biden picks liaison to Asian community amid rise in racist violence

The appointment of Erika Moritsugu follows complaints by Asian-American lawmakers over lack of representation in the cabinet, with some threatening to block nominees.

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Chinese overseas

The racism, trauma and humour of growing up in a Chinese takeaway

Sue Cheung’s humorous book Chinglish has received critical acclaim, but writing it meant revisiting the often unpleasant experience of growing up in her family’s Chinese takeaway in the UK, and the brutal violence meted out by her otherwise uncommunicative father.

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Gun violence in the US

Interpol warrant issued for suspect in Yale student Kevin Jiang’s murder

The ‘red notice’ seeks the arrest of Shanghai-born US citizen Qinxuan Pan for the fatal shooting in New Haven, Connecticut in February.

Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang was shot and killed in New Haven on February 6, 2021. Photo: Yale University
Chinese overseas

Remains in Missouri identified as missing Chinese woman Mengqi Ji

Ji’s husband, Joseph Elledge, was charged in February 2020 with first-degree murder in her death.

US-China relations

US judge tosses claims by Chinese-born professor over FBI arrest

Temple University academic Xi Xiaoxing, his wife and young daughters were handcuffed at their home after he was accused of giving trade secrets to China, but the charges were later dropped.

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Crime

Shocking video shows Asian-American woman kicked, stomped on in New York

The 65-year-old woman was walking in midtown Manhattan on Monday afternoon when a man came up to her and kicked her in the stomach, knocking her to the ground.

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A screen grab of a video showing an Asian-American woman assaulted in New York City. Photo: Handout
Art

If Bruce Lee could do it so could she: Hong Kong inspires artists abroad

A dance trio from Hong Kong watched their city in turmoil but could not get a sense of how it felt until they returned and gained fresh inspiration. An illustrator looked to its most famous son for inspiration.

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Bruce Lee in The Big Boss. Photo: Instagram
Chinese overseas

From Canada to Peru, how the Chinese diaspora has made its mark

Whether in Victoria, Canada or England’s rain-soaked Manchester, descendants of Chinese immigrants have made their mark far beyond the realm of restaurants. 

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