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...practicing Chinese-speaking descendents of Muslims in the east. “I wanted to mess with [audience members’] minds,” he said in an interview after the event. “The idea that ‘Muslim’ and ‘Chinese?? are whole homogenous black-box categories—that you are either Chinese or Muslim—is just not reality.” Lipman, also a history professor at Mount Holyoke, said he was careful to distinguish culture, ethnicity, and religion in his speech. Different aspects...
...politics, “I am a weapon of massive consumption; / It’s not my fault, it’s how I’m programmed to function.”There are, of course, songs less successful than others—for instance, “Chinese?? tries to celebrate the comfortable and mundane in a relationship but comes off as a little monotonous, and the self-congratulation of “He Wasn’t There,” despite the song’s inspired beginning reminiscent of an old Billie Holiday...
...yeah, The Kong. “American” Chinese is different than “Chinese?? Chinese food. I mean, there’s talk about dog being on the menu. I never saw any of that, but there’s a lot of options, for sure...
...kids get their kicks on the mainland? Well, most of them listen to a style of music dominated by Jay Chou. With Korea-pop influenced songs such as “Romantic Cell Phone”—a title that makes only a little more sense in Chinese??Chou has sold millions of records. He’s about as far from a rebel without a cause as you can get. Chinese music critics hail his masterful work (he allegedly doesn’t really write the lyrics) as revolutionary for his (perceived) unique ability...
...politically at an event last night that aimed to foster discussion between the two groups in light of continuing violence in Tibet. More than 150 people attended the event—entitled “Working Towards a Better Future: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue between Tibetans and Han Chinese??—which featured two Tibetan and two Chinese panelists. Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund President Arthur N. Holcombe said that a resolution would only result from dialogue between the two groups. “It is important for all of us that solutions to the problem...