Crossing Cultures Confidently
If Memorial Day and Labor Day bookend Summer months on the American calendar, what holidays mark Summer for East Asian countries that follow the Chinese lunar calendar? Memorial Day weekend often signals the opening of public pools and summer camps …
Qingming or Ching Ming Festival (清明節pronounced chīng míng jíe) is a holiday marking rebirth and wakening of the Spring season. Commonly known as the Chinese memorial day, Qingming is observed in several Chinese speaking countries including China, Taiwan, Macau, and …
Happy Thanksgiving 2022!This has been a year of making connections. I’ve reunited with many friends and met new friends in person and via virtual means, including the artist Osaka Nana who has given me permission to share her Sumi-e watercolor …
This Lunar New Year I appeared on WBBM newsradio 780, on February 1, 2022. Nancy Landt interviewed me on Celebrating the Lunar New Year. As we come to the end of the Lunar New Year season on Lantern Festival February …
How do avoid making a major faux pas during Lunar New Year? Take this lesson from The Guardian and BBC. Recently, both news sources posted Chinese food recipes along red envelopes, with a side of paper money used for remembering the dead. To read …
A big part of celebrating Lunar New Year arriving on February 1st this year, involves eating. What foods must be eaten? Lucky foods, of course. In my recent Lunar New Year presentations, my audience are often at a loss …
Can even celebrity craft and culture experts, like Martha Stewart, make a colossal faux pas? Every year Lunar New Year’s Day changes according to a lunar calendar. For example, the Year of the Tiger arrives on February 1, 2022. On …
While many western traditions revolve around festivities on New Year’s Eve, a long standing tradition I am familiar with in East Asia is watching the sunrise on New Year’s Day. How about going for a pre-dawn hike on the …
Despite Netflix’s scandals this year, this later half of 2021 showed no slowing down of its value in stocks. In fact, since these last three months of 2021, its per share stock value has not dropped below $600 USD. What …
This may not sound surprising from a Chinese American like myself, but what if I told you this is a chapter in a book about Jewish American culture? Rabbi Joshua Plaut, author of “A Kosher Christmas: Tis The Season To Be …