It was more than fortunate for me to have a chance meeting Justice Amy Coney Barrett in person when I was in an exchange program at Yale in 2017. During an office hour of a law professor for exchange students from high school, Justice Barrett was invited by chance as a courtesy of two female […]
As demonstrations continue all over the world to protest against the death of George Floyd and express frustration over the longstanding systematic racism, the movement has received generous support across people from all races. Yet, there have been significant unsupportive voices raised within Asian American communities, which evinced the persistent anti-black sentiment among them. “It […]
Sister Shi is probably the most famous supporter of Trump among sinophone communities, as she has attracted more than 500,000 followers from Weibo, the largest microblogging website in China, which has more than 229 million daily active users. While many scholars, lawyers or influencers on Weibo prefer not to reveal their political preference, Sister Shi […]
“Fake News” used to describe the misinformation circulating chiefly online. Nowadays, however, an increasing number of political actors have weaponized the term to delegitimize legacy news media amid the insidious rise of populism. Their move was efficacious, as the term has already possessed an inherent connotation that signifies falsity unwarrantedly, which could mislead the public […]
The original image is Tank Man secretly taken by Jeff Widener of the Associated Press on 5 June 1989. The picture shows a solitary man standing in front of a column of halted tanks leaving the Tiananmen Square after they have brutally suppressed the protest there. I mixed the original image with a photograph taken […]
Xiangyuan Chi 