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Courtesy photo: #FoodBankInfluencer J ust minutes into an interview with comedian and activist Kristina Wong about her upcoming Boston...

Cannon Hersey speaks at 'Branches of Hope'. Photo by Adam Smith. A small Japanese woman with thin wire-framed glasses appeared on...

A fter moving to the United States with his family in the 1980s, Kuang Ching Mei led a life like so many of his peers of his time. Born ...

Boston Athenaeum; photo by Adam Smith I f you were a big deal in Boston back in the 1850s, there’s a good chance you owned a work by the...

Photo Credit by Adam Smith Amy Guen has been interviewed enough times to know how the process works. Sitting at Jiangnan, a Chinese...

Photo credit by Adam Smith For decades, Josiah Quincy was seen as a cultural resource for Boston. Now, new city policies and demographic shifts are limiting who can access the institution T he Josiah Quincy Elementary School has been a core part of the Chinatown community since its modern iteration opened nearly a half century ago. But to simply refer to it as a school would not tell you the full story. Josiah Quincy Elementary — which technically was founded in 1847 — was bu

Photo Credit by Liam Crampton For one weekend a year, in downtown Lowell, the second-largest free cultural folk festival in America takes...

The legendary 19th-century poet Arthur Rimbaud wrote for only five years, quit by the time he was 21, but left us with one of the more...

Photo Credit by Adam Smith Grown men are not supposed to be afraid of the dark. But I suddenly felt a sense of nagging fear as I was...

When Bobby Wong was a teenager, he wanted to help out with his family’s restaurant, the Kowloon, so he took on some part-time work there....

From a young age, Tehching Hsieh knew he wanted to follow his dream of becoming an artist. The native of Taiwan had read the works of...

When Jingyu Lin was growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, being an Asian American artist felt like a taboo dream. When she decided to...

Walk through Chinatown today, and you might see some colorful bilingual posters in the windows of upstairs apartments and ground-level...

MBTA boss sits down with Sampan to talk about the past, present and future of Hub’s beleaguered transit system E veryone has their own image of the T. For some, it’s that cartoonish CharlieCard guy and for old-timers, it’s still the long-gone 85-cent token. For others, it might be their local bus number or subway color. But for many these days, it seems to be the friendly face of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s general manager, Phil Eng. Indeed, the New York

As only a young teenager, Rahaf has already faced the horrors of the Israeli bombardment of Palestinians in Gaza . While trying to...

On August 24, 1874, Chy Lung stood on the deck of the steamship Japan, watching San Francisco’s harbor come into view. After a long,...

Chinese American artist Ming Fay died earlier this year, but his works will continue to plant the seeds of imagination and inspiration in...

Seeing Raveena live is a special experience. Her performance at the Paradise Rock Club on May 15 not only featured her signature silky...

Sampan chats with Eric Antoniou about his book ‘Rock To Baroque’ and the immigrant experience. The first face we encounter in Eric...

When Ameera went to their high school prom, it was a lavender situation. They identified as a lesbian at the time and attended with their...