Where did English get the words ‘sampan’ and ‘junk’ from? Probably Cantonese and Javanese
Scholars are split on the roots of 'sampan' and 'junk', with some pointing to Chinese and others to Old Malay and Javanese ...
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‘The World Doesn’t Have to Be This Way,’ Says Novelist Celeste Ng, in Sampan Chat
The works of bestselling novelist and Cambridge resident Celeste Ng are perhaps more relevant now than ever. Her 2014 work, Everything I Never Told You, looked at the secrets and desires swirling in a ...
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A Lesson in Shared History
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing ethnic group in the United States. As a community, we come from countless countries, have a diversity of immigration stories, some recent and some dating back ...