Lotus Chen

Storytelling for Social Change & Intercultural Intelligence
Rally held in U.S. Monterey to protest against anti-Asian hate crimes
By Lotus Chen for Xinhua SAN FRANCISCO, April 26 (Xinhua) --Grateful to all who joined us at Colton Hall to stand in solidarity with our...
Barack Obama Talks with Gates on Storytelling for Policies, Building Multilateral Institutions
The dialogue took place in 2015, but many issues and insights they talk about can be applied to the current world. I have transcribed it....
What Black Lives Matters Movement Can Teach Us About Building Inclusive Communities and Homelessness
By Lotus Chen, Editor: Charles Montesa On May 25th 2020 the murder of George Floyd poured fuel over the flames ignited by the global...
How to Fight Against Social and Criminal Injustice in Monterey County Amid the Pandemic
By Lotus Chen A Rally and March in the City of Seaside,Monterey on Juneteenth(June 19th,2020) The world appears to be chaotic with the...
Why do Chinese still Consume Wildlife and Why Shouldn't We Blame Bats for COVID-19?
After reading the excerpts on wildlife in China from When A Billion Chinese Jump How China Will Save Mankind -- Or Destroy It by Jonathan...
Reflections and Personal Stories on Housing Issue in Monterey and Beijing
By Lotus Chen I woke up in the morning with the reflection on the good news I got yesterday on the housing issue. I have worked on the...
No One Cares About Kashmir
By Lotus Xuelian Chen The Oriental Morning Post, 03/09/2013 [The Interviewee] Basharat Peer, (born 1977) is a Kashmiri journalist and...
My Short but Unforgettable Life in India
By Lotus Chen Indian British writer V.S Naipaul said, too many books written by westerners are full of prejudice against India which is...
[Film Review] The Myth of the “Ideal Man” in an American Marriage Story
By Lotus Chen Marriage Story (2019) is directed by American filmmaker Noah Baumbach, who is married to the excellent director Greta...
[Shared]Students from China worry from afar
| FEATURED Story and photos by Joe Livernois My classmate Kelly and I was interviewed by Joe Livernois,a seniro journatlist for the...
Why Am I Interested in China’s Sustainable Development Challenges?
As a former journalist and a social changer who wants to make the world better and more sustainable, I am always interested in...
Gender Inequality in a Small Town in China and a Woman’s Dream to Become a Writer
Lotus Chen Sometimes, I have strange thoughts, for example that people who don't have a nice and loving family tend to like traveling....
[Interview] Up and Coming Vietnamese Filmmaker Ha Kin Muses on Her Journey
Lotus Chen It is difficult to accurately pin down Ha Kin as she wears so many different hats—a filmmaker, blogger, writer, singer and...
Graphics Can Transmit Data With Incredible Efficiency and Beauty
As a “visual” person who has a fast-visual memory and good aesthetic sense and an advocate of communication for social change, I am very...
Let LGBTQI’s voices be heard, their ideas implemented
Making Hanoi a LGBTQI friendly city – a clear vision for Tho, member of Hanoi Queer and the group leader of the youth-led data collection...
One of Vietnam's leading filmmakers Nguyen Hoang Diep discusses her art
By Lotus Chen Nguyen Hoang Diep is a Vietnamese independent film director who has won significant international recognition and awards...
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Digital Privacy
By Lotus Xuelian Chen @ MIIS DLINQ On Oct 25th 2019, DLINQ at MIIS team and I went to visit the “Glass Room” exhibition on digital...
My Cross-cultural Experience at MIIS as a Chinese Student
Which one of your identity/ identities would you add in the blank space? Chinese student, international student, a foreigner, an...
Prostitutes Vs Schoolgirls:Women in war are eternal victims
By Lotus Chen (The picture above depicts a scence in the film "The Flowers of War") In my opinion, women at war are victims and fighters....

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volunteers for 2019 UNESCO Forum

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