My latest #Wikipedia biography, someone I got interested in while researching my previous article about the 1951 mass arrests. Tan Po Goan (1911-85) was a Chinese Indonesian lawyer and Socialist Party politician, and probably the first Chinese minister appointed in the Indonesian government. He was a fierce advocate of the rule of law and the rights of Chinese Indonesians during the 1940s-50s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Po_Goan

#Indonesia #Peranakan #IndonesianHistory #ChineseDiaspora #Jakarta

The second half of this episode (starting 25 minutes in) is a good overview of how the Chinese state tracks and harasses Chinese students on Canadian campuses if they are public supporters of democratic reform or critical of PRC policy. Nothing new but a good overview.
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-64-the-house/clip/16097726-what-quip-bathtub-tells-canadian-politics-right

#CdnPoli #ChineseDiaspora #CanPoli

How a thriving #ChineseCommunity was built despite #racism & #hardships.

For the #Chinese community of #Newfoundland & #Labrador it's a thriving community built in spite of racism, hardship & #discriminatory government policy.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7204696

#AsianMastodon #ChineseDiaspora #ChineseCanadian #ChineseHistoryInCanada #ChineseImmigrants #ChinesePioneers

📜 The Chinese diaspora ‘needs to rise up’ about atrocities against Uyghurs — Q&A with human rights lawyer Rayhan Asat
Politics & Current Affairs

Rayhan Asat comments on China’s stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict, the Muslim world’s silence on ongoing rights abuses against Uyghurs in China, and the responsibility of the Chinese diaspora in advocating for human rights.

By Jonathan Landreth
Published October 30, 2023

「Rayhan Asat is one of the most vocal advocates today for the Uyghur people, her people, whose homeland in northwestern China is the scene of the Communist Party’s ongoing commission of what the United Nations says may be “crimes against humanity,” and what U.S. President Joseph Biden called a “genocide.” Among the roughly 1 million Turkic peoples detained, imprisoned, and forced into labor there — most of them Muslims — is Asat’s younger brother. Ekpar Asat was picked up by Chinese authorities and sentenced to 15 years in prison after returning from an educational exchange program in the U.S. sponsored by the Department of State. Speaking from London, Asat called for stronger human rights allies and reflected on the news of the growing conflict in the Middle East and the hypocrisy she sees in China and among global activists who are unwilling to confront China.

This is an edited transcript of our conversation.」

「In any sort of crisis, historically, it ends with the people rising up against the totalitarian government. But I just don’t see how Chinese people would. Chinese people wouldn’t do that out of fear, ignorance and lack of solidarity. They wouldn’t. There is less sense of civic duty.」

(The entire exchange is worth reading...👇️)

https://thechinaproject.com/2023/10/30/the-chinese-diaspora-needs-to-rise-up-about-atrocities-against-uyghurs-qa-with-human-rights-lawyer-rayhan-asat/

#TheChinaProject #RayhanAsat #Uyghurs '#xinjiang' #Palestine #CCP #china #chinese #chinesediaspora #colonialism #slavery #genocide #authoritarianism #humanrights

Homemade #BanhMi sub for late lunch.

#AsianMastodon #CholonDistrictRefugees #Teochew #ChineseDiaspora #VietnameseFood #AsianFood #EthnicEats #CulturalFoods #POCfood #lunch

Have decided to read "Yellowface" by Rebecca K. Kuang. There seems to be quite a bit of controversy about it. Will be interesting to see why... I'm just looking to continue my journey of literature about the Chinese diaspora.

I hope to be able to turn it into a teachable topic at some point. If anyone has suggestions, I'm all ears 😃

#ChineseDiaspora #Diaspora #Teaching #Fiction

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59357120