Tanya Ence, El Inde Arizona For the first time in almost 20 years, the number of students from India outnumber Chinese students at the University of Arizona, making Indian students the largest international student group on campus. Together, Indian and Chinese students make up almost 40% of the entire UA international student population represented by…
Traducido por Javier Aispuro. Viajar en tren en Yuma con una caja con huesos en sus manos, G.W. Chapman hizo lo que muchos creyeron sacrílego. Vació una caja enorme llena de huesos de inmigrantes chinos en el río Colorado. Era un día cálido en 1882 y “Old Chap”, el mensajero expreso y empleado de correos…
Traveling by train in Yuma with a box of bones in his hands, G.W. Chapman did what many believed to be sacrilegious. He dumped a huge box filled with dead Chinese immigrants’ bones into the Colorado River. It was a warm day in 1882, and “Old Chap,” Tombstone’s express messenger and mail clerk, had promised…
A dragon-like creature charges out from the side of the stage, his oversized red and yellow head sways back and forth to the beat of the drums. At the bang of a gong, the creature’s giant eyelids flutter as they reveal bright green eyes peering at the audience. The mythical animal jumps off stage and…
One insight struck Chia-Lin Pao Tao when she arrived in Tucson in 1976. She was most surprised by how few Asians she saw along with little, if any, marks of Chinese legacy in the area. Today, she knows differently. The Chinese have a long connection to Arizona’s past, playing substantial roles in the state’s development…
