Archive for February, 2010

Ha Jin’s “The Bane of the Internet”

Posted By Zócalo On February 26, 2010

A Good Fall, by Ha Jin

Zócalo last chatted with Ha Jin about his collection of essays, The Writer as Migrant, and his own experience as Chinese immigrant to the U.S. His latest story collection, A Good Fall, takes up similar themes. Below, “The Bane of the Internet,” the story that starts the collection of tales about the uneasy and long process of immigrating.

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Julia Sweig

Posted By Zócalo On February 25, 2010

Julia Sweig

Julia E. Sweig is the Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America studies and director for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Most recently she is the author of Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know. Before taking the podium to discuss the book, Sweig told us a bit more about herself.

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Ron

Posted By Zócalo On February 25, 2010

by Victoria Chang

We drive into Ron’s house through the front door up the marble
stairs. The tires don’t damage the stairs. We don’t slip. I don’t know
where my child is, but I think she is standing at a sink pouring water

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What’s Next for Cuba?

Posted By Zócalo On February 25, 2010

Two years to the day since Raul Castro took office in Cuba — replacing his long-ruling and then-ailing brother Fidel — Julia Sweig visited Zócalo at the Skirball Cultural Center to talk about changes in the country and its relations with the U.S.

“Your timing, Zócalo, is excellent,” Sweig said.

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Do Corporations Need to Know Pop Culture?

Posted By Zócalo On February 24, 2010

Chief Culture Officer, by Grant McCracken

Chief Culture Officer: How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporation
by Grant McCracken

Anthropologist Grant McCracken thinks that every corporation needs a chief culture officer.

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Friday, December 3, 2010
How One Family Created Chinese America
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The Lucky Ones, by Mae Ngai The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America by Mae Ngai Hyphenated cultures seem to be a natural part of California’s landscape today, but it wasn’t always so. The Lucky Ones by Mae Ngai offers a fresh look at California history by reconstructing the lives of immigrant and second generation pioneers who lived between cultures when it was not such a common phenomenon. Ngai’s narrative brings Chinese Americans into a richer tradition of historical storytelling by humanizing an ambivalent, middle-class immigrant family, situating their lives within the more well-known histories of Chinese laborers and those who suffered from the 1882 Exclusion Act.

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