Ho-Yen Tsang

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	<title>Ho-Yen Tsang</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Nov 2019 01:37:07 +0000</pubDate>

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		<title>'I Know You Chinese People'</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2020 21:22:24 +0000</pubDate>

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‘I Know You Chinese People’

COVID-19 flips us from 'model minority' to 'yellow peril' yet again

Updated: June 6, 2020 &#124; Originally posted: May 12, 2020


The screen lit up, and the audible notification woke me from an uneasy sleep. It was a routine I was just getting used to. Spring was here, and sorting out the junk lying around the house and jettisoning some of it through Facebook Marketplace seemed a quick and easy way to reclaim some shelf space and square footage. Besides, there wasn’t much else left to do in the eighth long week of virtual house arrest during the COVID-19 shutdown, and I needed to distract myself from the disturbing stories of anti-Asian racist incidents that had begun appearing in the news. I remembered the sender of this latest message. Mr. G* had made an offer on an item the previous evening, but since I had gotten swamped by a deluge of interest earlier that day and secured a committed buyer, I had politely declined his offer and gone to bed.

“I know you Chinese people.”
    
I sat bolt upright and felt an all-too-familiar knot begin to form in my gut. Almost instantly, a fire drill went off in my head, a mental exercise I have subconsciously rehearsed since I was a child: that I was being oversensitive; that I was being paranoid; that what I was hearing or seeing was not what was happening; to not draw attention to myself. This self-inflicted gaslighting served the short-term purpose of defusing imminent threats, ensuring survival to fight another day, and it was by now instinctive. I fumbled for my glasses, in case my eyes were playing tricks on me. You’ve got this all wrong, I told myself. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Mr. G knowing some Chinese people. The knot in my stomach began to relax. Still, I was curious. I typed in a single question mark, hit send, and was instantly rewarded with a non-delivery error. In other words: blocked.

SARS-CoV-2 has brought with it a surge of hate crimes against Asians: an elderly man forcibly thrown out of a convenience store by an assailant uttering COVID-19-related epithets; a woman walking home from work spat on; buildings, memorials, and other property defaced with racist graffiti. It doesn’t matter that I was born in Canada, or that before any of this happened I had no idea what a “wet market” even was. I have a bullseye on my back, having been lumped in with all Asian-appearing people as foreign, savage, dirty, disease-ridden, and therefore unwelcome. The same tired tropes we've been slandered with for centuries now reverberate in social media, cable news, and talk radio echo chambers, amplified by people in positions of power and influence. The message is clear: My presence pollutes this otherwise clean, civilized society, and I am to leave—or else.


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Essential errands like grocery shopping, already beset by shortages and social distancing measures, require a risk assessment beyond just the danger of infection: Is the fact that the kids are running low on milk worth taking the chance of being shouted at, spat on, punched out, or returning to the car to find it vandalized? Do I wear a mask to protect others, or will wearing one make me even more of a target? What will I do if I’m attacked? Will an altercation end with one or the other in the hospital, or worse? What if my wife or our children are attacked? This constant hypervigilance is exhausting; the pandemic itself seems almost trivial by comparison.

Model minority is a placeholder slur that, in the best of times, merely affords Asian North Americans a guest pass at the cool (White) kids’ table even as its very words are weaponized to exclude and shame other people of colour as being implicitly substandard. It is one side of a coin that faces up or down according to the status du jour of China-Western relations, and whose flip side—yellow peril—attempts to justify anti-Asian racism by shifting responsibility for China’s transgressions, real or perceived, onto Asian-appearing people. When an unflattering international news story breaks that can expediently be laid at our feet, “model minority” is stripped from us and replaced with sneers, looks of disgust, shouts of “CHINK!” and “GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY!” or worse.

Even the clucks of feigned outrage and token repudiations of violence in response to the recent surge in xenophobic incidents come with the consensus—most notably among self-professed not-racist-buts claiming many Asian friends and in some cases even an Asian partner—that if Asian-appearing Canadian citizens don’t like being subjected to racist verbal and physical abuse, perhaps we should stop being bad drivers, laundering money, dropping anchor babies, triggering pandemics, mistreating Africans, murdering drug users, and eating things that repulse the burger-and-fries demographic. (Did I miss anything?) Yet, incredibly and without any apparent sense of hypocrisy, when stories of racist behaviour by racist White people make the headlines, these nope-definitely-racists turn around and accuse the media of “sowing division.”

This is the part where I’m supposed to regurgitate that the answer to violence is nonviolence; that racism is a deep-seated problem with a long history; that it’s so ingrained in the psyche of racists that many of them don’t even realize they’re racists, and therefore this is an issue that needs to be met with patience and compassion. The problem, however, is that certain people seem to only understand violence, and they are finally being spoken to in their own language, if for no other reason than that nothing else seems to have worked in the past 250 years. Is anyone truly surprised?


*Name withheld to protect privacy.


Resources

Blue eyes, brown eyes: What Jane Elliott's famous experiment says about race 50 years on &#124; The Arizona Republic

MediaSmarts &#124; Canada's Centre for Digital and Media Literacy

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		<title>State of the Union</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2017 23:59:01 +0000</pubDate>

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State of the Union
2003—


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		<title>Arts Nonprofits</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2017 03:52:34 +0000</pubDate>

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Arts Nonprofits
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		<title>Chinatown</title>
				
		<link>https://hoyentsang.com/Chinatown</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2017 04:03:39 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Ho-Yen Tsang</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://hoyentsang.com/Chinatown</guid>

		<description>Photography

Chinatown
2003—


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		<title>Camera Kata No. 1</title>
				
		<link>https://hoyentsang.com/Camera-Kata-No-1</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2017 04:07:54 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Ho-Yen Tsang</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://hoyentsang.com/Camera-Kata-No-1</guid>

		<description>Photography

Camera Kata No. 1
2011—


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		<title>A Convenient Effigy</title>
				
		<link>https://hoyentsang.com/A-Convenient-Effigy</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:59:51 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Ho-Yen Tsang</dc:creator>

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		<description>Essay

A Convenient Effigy

Did anyone even read ‘Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother’?

Updated: April 1, 2017 &#124; Originally posted: July 14, 2016


“No one wants to be a pariah,” declares Yale law professor Amy Chua in her book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” a memoir of her experiences parenting her daughters, Sophia and Lulu, as a traditionally strict Chinese mother set adrift in liberal New England.

Yet a pariah she became, when excerpts from the book were published in the Wall Street Journal in 2011, a few days ahead of the book’s release. In the article, audaciously titled “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” — a headline Chua denies writing, pointing a finger at WSJ editors — Chua describes how she forbade her daughters from having sleepovers, playdates, or getting any grade less than an A, and recounts calling one “garbage” while not letting the other have food, water, or even a bathroom break during an hours-long piano practice session. The piece went viral, igniting a firestorm on comment boards, blogs and social media, with some calling for the author’s arrest on charges of child abuse. She was forced to defend herself on news segments and talk shows, received an anonymous parcel containing a shredded copy of her book, and even had to hire private security after receiving death threats.


	&#60;img width="533" height="900" width_o="533" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d21eb4e598fb8131c3ae7302e4043ad75e477cf8fbfd139c6a41768f8b92e8a/battlehymn.jpg" data-mid="22374308" border="0" alt="Battle Hymn of the Tiger MotherBy Amy Chua240 pp. Penguin. $16.00." data-caption="&#38;lt;b&#38;gt;Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother&#38;lt;/b&#38;gt;&#38;lt;br&#38;gt;By Amy Chua&#38;lt;br&#38;gt;240 pp. Penguin. $16.00." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/533/i/8d21eb4e598fb8131c3ae7302e4043ad75e477cf8fbfd139c6a41768f8b92e8a/battlehymn.jpg" /&#62;Battle Hymn of the Tiger MotherBy Amy Chua240 pp. Penguin. $16.00.
	I was born in Canada to Hong Kong immigrants and am myself a product of Chinese parenting, probably better known in the West as the authoritarian parenting style but infused with Confucius-flavoured narcissistic personality disorder and traditionally served off the wrong end of a feather duster. Now a father myself, it took five years of being annoyed and occasionally horrified at the tiger mother-tagged articles popping up in my parenting news feed before I finally caved in and picked up a copy of the book to see what the fuss was about.
    It was not what I expected.
    That Chua was playing with fire is indisputable. Her husband, Jed Rubenfeld, even warned her as much: “Amy, you are going to get slaughtered for this.” And, whether she intended it or not, her timing was impeccable. Child development experts in the prewar West preached rigidity and distance, warning parents that coddling children would stunt their development. The publication of “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care” by Dr. Benjamin Spock in 1946 upended that dogma. Arguing for a warmer, instinctive and child-centric approach to parenting, it became one of the most popular books ever published in any genre, revolutionizing the way Western baby boomers and Generation Xers were raised.
    Meanwhile, market reforms initiated in the late 1970s paved the way for China’s rise as an economic superpower, even as major American manufacturing industries declined and collapsed. In 2009, two years before “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” was published and amid the worst economic downturn in the U.S. since the Great Depression, Shanghai Chinese students took the Programme for International Student Assessment test for the first time and clobbered everyone, ranking first in all three subject areas in a field of 74 participating countries and wiping the floor with the Americans, who finished 17th, 23rd, and 31st in reading, science, and math, respectively.


The irony of yet another humiliation by an increasingly influential yet officially communist (ahem, ‘socialist’) country wasn’t likely lost on the book’s target demographic: Western parents of school-age children who themselves grew up during the Cold War and were raised on the virtues of individualism and liberty. Against the backdrop of American exceptionalism in the throes of its deepest self-esteem crisis in decades, it didn’t take much for Chua’s writing style — inflammatory at times and peppered with name-drops like Harvard, Stanford, Yale, and Carnegie Hall — to set off parents already uneasy at the prospect of a future for their children in which a run-of-the-mill college degree no longer guaranteed anything except for an armoured truckload of nondischargeable debt.

For one thing, it was almost immediately apparent that the excerpts in the WSJ article had been lifted from the most controversial passages in the first quarter of the book, which when read in context appear to have been deliberately written provocatively to set up the rest of the story. There’s no such thing as bad publicity, as the saying goes, and it seems that whoever cherry-picked the excerpts for the article was specifically trying to get a rise out of people. In any case, it worked, and spectacularly so: readers left more than 10,000 comments on the WSJ site while the book was a veritable blockbuster, reaching #4 on Amazon and spending 11 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list.


	And then there’s Chua’s husband, blasted in most critiques for not doing more to defend his daughters against the torrent of verbal abuse hurled at them by their mother. According to Chua, Rubenfeld had been raised under the very permissive parenting style she rails against, yet somehow managed to attend Princeton, Juilliard, and Harvard, ultimately becoming a federal prosecutor and, like his wife, a best-selling author and professor at Yale. By Chua’s admission to their daughters: “After all, Daddy turned out fine.”It is also Rubenfeld who reminds Chua what happened to her father, Leon, an accomplished electrical engineer and computer scientist. Born in the Philippines to Chinese parents, the elder Chua had suffered at the hands of his own tiger mother, whom he “barely spoke to” and “never thought about … except in anger,” forcing the author to admit that Chinese parenting “doesn't always succeed,” something that she “never wanted to think about.” Chua’s inclusion of both her father and her husband in her story pokes a sizable hole in the contention that she is out to show parents of the non-tiger variety that they’re doing it wrong.
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The last third of the book is devoted to Lulu’s rebellion, a battle of wills that comes to a head during a family vacation in Moscow. In a café by the Red Square, while being browbeaten for refusing to try caviar (“Lulu, you sound like an uncultured savage”), Lulu finds the weakness — the heresy of public disobedience — in the ultimate power of the Tiger Mother, torpedoing it into oblivion with a hurled drinking glass in front of horrified patrons. Forced into submission by a raging 13-year-old who just wants to play tennis and otherwise be left alone, the Tigress consoles herself as she licks her wounds: At least tennis has Asian street cred.

And therein lies the twist.

See, my Chinese mother would have removed the plate in front of me until at least one spoonful of briny eggs was chewed and swallowed, and an empty mouth inspected to satisfaction. Then, I would have spent the rest of the day dreading whatever horrible fate was to befall me once we were back in the privacy of our hotel room, for daring to not only defy her but make a dramatic public spectacle of it. I doubt that my version of this story would have surprised anyone by this point in the book. But Chua didn’t go full dark side: She came to her senses and backed off. In doing so, she chose instead to face one of her greatest fears: the loss by her children of the social and materialistic status that she and her parents had worked so hard, and sacrificed so much, to achieve.

Some of Chua’s most vehement critics are Asian Americans who carry the scars of similar experiences, and thanks to our cultural reluctance to confront and therefore disrespect our elders, Chua’s thrusting herself into the public eye made her a convenient effigy. But as someone who was about to grab my torch and pitchfork over what I read about the book before I read the book itself, it was almost disappointing that the uproar over “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” turned out to be a whole lot of ado about little. If nothing else, at least by Chua’s account there is now one crazy Chinese mother fewer running amok, which even her staunchest critics would probably agree is for the better.

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		<title>Photojournalism</title>
				
		<link>https://hoyentsang.com/Photojournalism</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2017 04:23:57 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Ho-Yen Tsang</dc:creator>

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		<description>Photography

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&#60;img width="1200" height="900" width_o="1200" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/995ba1f6904084f4c91c47ad1c788566734cf9447034ef44900b36e4f9e3eb94/_DSC3015.jpg" data-mid="291961" border="0" alt="A cage door is unlocked ahead of the scheduled euthanasia of an unwanted litter of kittens at the Inland Valley Humane Society in Pomona, California, on June 30, 2004. Ho-Yen Tsang for The San Gabriel Valley Tribune" data-caption="A cage door is unlocked ahead of the scheduled euthanasia of an unwanted litter of kittens at the Inland Valley Humane Society in Pomona, California, on June 30, 2004. &#38;lt;span class=&#38;quot;credit&#38;quot;&#38;gt;Ho-Yen Tsang for The San Gabriel Valley Tribune&#38;lt;/span&#38;gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/995ba1f6904084f4c91c47ad1c788566734cf9447034ef44900b36e4f9e3eb94/_DSC3015.jpg" /&#62;
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&#60;img width="1200" height="900" width_o="1200" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc4d27087ed4cdadbdbf4bc48a225b845f042631208bf7d7a07815acc9ef3689/hickambottom.jpg" data-mid="291970" border="0" alt="Dolores Hickambottom and Rev. William J. Johnson applaud during the dedication of John Muir High School's administration building in Pasadena, California, on November 13, 2004. The building was named after Hickambottom's husband, Elbie, a former school board president, who died earlier in the year. Ho-Yen Tsang for The Pasadena Star-News" data-caption="Dolores Hickambottom and Rev. William J. Johnson applaud during the dedication of John Muir High School's administration building in Pasadena, California, on November 13, 2004. The building was named after Hickambottom's husband, Elbie, a former school board president, who died earlier in the year. &#38;lt;span class=&#38;quot;credit&#38;quot;&#38;gt;Ho-Yen Tsang for The Pasadena Star-News&#38;lt;/span&#38;gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc4d27087ed4cdadbdbf4bc48a225b845f042631208bf7d7a07815acc9ef3689/hickambottom.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="1200" height="900" width_o="1200" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81383271452458bfd5497fc28a22fe4c6b06bd53fd948ad79cc73f34bdc63431/amat.jpg" data-mid="291964" border="0" alt="Merritt Hemenway, principal of Bishop Amat Memorial High School in La Puente, California, poses for a portrait by the school stadium on November 16, 2004. Bishop Amat, a co-ed Catholic high school, is San Gabriel Valley Tribune's School of the Week. Ho-Yen Tsang for The San Gabriel Valley Tribune" data-caption="Merritt Hemenway, principal of Bishop Amat Memorial High School in La Puente, California, poses for a portrait by the school stadium on November 16, 2004. Bishop Amat, a co-ed Catholic high school, is San Gabriel Valley Tribune's School of the Week. &#38;lt;span class=&#38;quot;credit&#38;quot;&#38;gt;Ho-Yen Tsang for The San Gabriel Valley Tribune&#38;lt;/span&#38;gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/81383271452458bfd5497fc28a22fe4c6b06bd53fd948ad79cc73f34bdc63431/amat.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="1200" height="900" width_o="1200" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7a9380d11c9b8e6697ac58b6ad84ab8bc901a9a65c42d6b299c815da50c5222/maggiemello.jpg" data-mid="291971" border="0" alt="Maggie Mello, 15, winds up for a backhand en route to her 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 victory over top-seeded Nazlie Ghazal to clinch the CIF-Southern Section Singles Championship at the SeaCliff Country Club in Huntington Beach, California, on December 3, 2004. Ho-Yen Tsang for The Orange County Register" data-caption="Maggie Mello, 15, winds up for a backhand en route to her 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 victory over top-seeded Nazlie Ghazal to clinch the CIF-Southern Section Singles Championship at the SeaCliff Country Club in Huntington Beach, California, on December 3, 2004. &#38;lt;span class=&#38;quot;credit&#38;quot;&#38;gt;Ho-Yen Tsang for The Orange County Register&#38;lt;/span&#38;gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7a9380d11c9b8e6697ac58b6ad84ab8bc901a9a65c42d6b299c815da50c5222/maggiemello.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="675" height="900" width_o="675" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/317f24536805218c35ecefa8092b8bc2c485f5edee9fbc25e13bfae66945134f/basketball.jpg" data-mid="291965" border="0" alt="Dominguez guard Quinton Watkins tries to block Mater Dei guard Mike Gerrity during the CIF Southern Regional playoffs at the USC Sports Arena in Los Angeles on March 12, 2005. Mater Dei won 68-61, advancing to the state championship against Oak Ridge. Ho-Yen Tsang for The Orange County Register" data-caption="Dominguez guard Quinton Watkins tries to block Mater Dei guard Mike Gerrity during the CIF Southern Regional playoffs at the USC Sports Arena in Los Angeles on March 12, 2005. Mater Dei won 68-61, advancing to the state championship against Oak Ridge. &#38;lt;span class=&#38;quot;credit&#38;quot;&#38;gt;Ho-Yen Tsang for The Orange County Register&#38;lt;/span&#38;gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/675/i/317f24536805218c35ecefa8092b8bc2c485f5edee9fbc25e13bfae66945134f/basketball.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="1200" height="900" width_o="1200" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/368dbdd76da412b3625d33bd2cad7e73d8cb83a75e19e241676072f054620f7f/_DSC5031.jpg" data-mid="291963" border="0" alt="Manny Escalante, of La Verne, gets in an early morning practice at Duarte Fitness Center in Duarte, California, on September 1, 2004. He will compete in the Ironman Triathlon in Madison, Wisconsin in 11 days. Ho-Yen Tsang for The San Gabriel Valley Tribune" data-caption="Manny Escalante, of La Verne, gets in an early morning practice at Duarte Fitness Center in Duarte, California, on September 1, 2004. He will compete in the Ironman Triathlon in Madison, Wisconsin in 11 days. &#38;lt;span class=&#38;quot;credit&#38;quot;&#38;gt;Ho-Yen Tsang for The San Gabriel Valley Tribune&#38;lt;/span&#38;gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/368dbdd76da412b3625d33bd2cad7e73d8cb83a75e19e241676072f054620f7f/_DSC5031.jpg" /&#62;
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