Category: Interviews

When things are going bad, we become scapegoats,” says Chinese Jamaican Dalton Yap in an interview about growing up in Jamaica.

For many years until her mid-teens, Paloma wanted nothing to do with her Chinese culture. Today, that has changed completely.

Short of interviewing a person directly, I try to understand them through their words. I encountered an interview with a 23-year-old Chinese person in Spain, Paloma Chen, in the Spanish newspaper El Pais. The first time I picked up El Pais was in 2005 when I lived in Salamanca, Spain, and picking one up in […]

Born in the ’60s, Patrick shares his experience as a Chinese Trinidadian living through revolutions in China and Trinidad.

Two opposing concepts of racism and privilege colour the experience of the Chinese in Trinidad and Tobago.

A Chinese family seeks a better life by migrating across the Pacific, only to be met with a harsh start.

Much unlike my previous guests, Eric Yuan Jan’s family comes from a different region of China and of a much different professional background.

While Roberto’s parents toiled in their Chinese restaurant in Hermosillo, Mexico, his Mexican neighbours raised him.

Four generations of Chinese migration to Mexico’s north, within which lies a story of familial separation, racial persecution and belonging.