Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Living and breathing martial arts has always been my life. The practice of learning, drilling, sparring, and community at the dojo all provide me with an awakened sense of calmness. AFTER THE IMPLEMENTATION of the national shelter-in-place directives in the U.S., my martial arts ritual and routine was rudely interrupted. On a larger scale, many … Read more
YOU HAVE BEEN STAYING AT HOME with your two children for weeks. The first conversation you have with your two-year-old each day goes: ~What do you want for breakfast? ~I want [a] party. ~Uh… I am afraid it won’t happen for a while. What can I cook for you? ~I want coffee. For weeks, post-breakfast … Read more
“Wherever our memories, story fragments, visual details, and thoughts laid in the finished comics, they will be different, new, and perhaps…revelatory” — M.K. Czerwiec ON JANUARY, 23, 2020, two days before Chinese New Year, the Chinese central government ordered a total lockdown of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, and other cities in the province … Read more
THOUGH MOHANDAS GANDHI occupies no formal place as such in histories of nursing in India, it should not come as a surprise to those who have reflected on his long career as perhaps the principal exponent in history of the idea of ahimsa (nonviolence) that he displayed a great affinity for nursing and thought of … Read more
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FOR GENERATIONS, IN INDIA AND AROUND THE WORLD, school teachers in classrooms have struggled to contain the impulse that children have to move around. Hundreds of psychologists, on the hunt for explanations for the comparatively poor performance of boys in schools, and their apparently increasing disdain for formal education, allege that children, and boys in … Read more