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Chinese Student Association Fosters Family Away from Home in Lunar New Year Celebration
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The Cornell Chinese Student Association fosters a close-knit community with events including its annual Lunar New Year celebration.
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The Cornell Chinese Student Association fosters a close-knit community with events including its annual Lunar New Year celebration.
In our endorsement of academic freedom, we appreciate critical scholarly attention to particular instances and acts, systems and structures of oppression.
The Faculty Senate voted to condemn the repressive actions of the People’s Republic of China.
Cornellians in the Chinese Student Association celebrated the Lunar New Year on Feb. 19, after the event was postponed due to COVID-19 restrictions.
I remember my palpable disappointment when I first watched the movie “Crazy Rich Asians.” It turns out that most of my fellow international Chinese friends also judged this film that way, as well as the general public in China. The movie flopped in China, both in the box office and in reviews. The aggregated score from 83,054 public reviews on Douban (豆瓣), the Chinese equivalent of IMDb, is a mere 6.1 out of 10. A common thread of criticism toward the film is a lack of authenticity, with many Chinese moviegoers begrudgingly calling it “General Tsao’s Chicken,” a particularly cruel title if you realize that this famous and delicious Chinese food is actually an invention linked more to America. So, you can perhaps imagine my bewilderment at first when I realized that “Crazy Rich Asians” is actually a cultural phenomenon in America, having a deep impact on the Chinese-American community in particular.
The Chinese government has frequently shifted its attitudes towards Chinese citizenship in the past. Now, foreign-born Chinese people by the government are seen as both an asset and a liability, said Prof. Charlotte Brooks, history, of CUNY Baruch College.
As the year of the pig approaches, several organizations and student centers will be hosting cultural events to celebrate and educate the Cornell community on one of the biggest Chinese holidays of the year.
Dim sum is conventionally enjoyed as an open brunch during the day, but at the Midnight Dim Sum in Duffield on Saturday, busy Cornellians got to have a taste of both the traditional Chinese dishes and Chinese culture.
CUTonight effectively ceased to exist this semester after most of its members resigned. This dissolution prevented student organizations from accessing its over $100,000 budget for student events in the fall semester.
American ideologies that contribute to such an alienating perception of “Chineseness” may in fact be the ideas of “American exceptionalism,” according to Carlson. He added that the nationalistic view of self can render anything foreign “either laughable or dangerous.”