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The Serica Initiative is the nonprofit partner of SupChina, a China-focused news, information, and business services platform. The Serica Initiative convenes a global community of changemakers to advance positive social impact between the U.S., China, and the rest of the world through dialogue, storytelling, philanthropy, and effective collaboration.

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Việt Thanh Nguyễn came to the U.S. as a Vietnamese refugee when he was four years old. Today Nguyễn is a college professor and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Sympathizer. In this Exploring Hate episode, he discusses displacement, the resilience of the…

Resilience and Community | be/longing: Asian Americans Now

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Investigate be/longing: Asian Americans Now, a series from Exploring Hate: Antisemitism, Racism and Extremism and The Serica Initiative profiling Asian Americans from AAPI communities across the country. Actor George Takei, Pulitzer Prize winner Việt Thanh Nguyễn, and others share personal stories of exclusion,…

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After the Atlanta spa shootings, Asian American filmmakers Gina Kim and Titi Yu set out to tell the story in a new PBS documentary.

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The Community Builders

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Attacks on Asian Americans spiked during the pandemic. Dr. Richard Park discusses his mission to provide medical care to Asian immigrants.

The Storyteller

May 24, 2022 | Episode 1

Vietnamese refugee Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Sympathizer. He discusses why telling stories is his mission.