On Jan. 29, students across the 5Cs came together to celebrate the Lunar New Year and ring in the Year of the Snake. Lunar New Year is also commonly known as Spring Festival or Chinese New Year and marks the start of the new year on the lunisolar calendar.
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Mid-autumn festival lights up the 5Cs
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a cherished tradition commemorating harvest in many Asian cultures. Held annually on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, the festival fell on Tuesday, Sept. 17 of the Gregorian calendar this year. Students across the 5Cs gathered to celebrate, participating in
The Year of the Dragon: Across Claremont, students wrap dumplings, explore themed exhibits, and come together to celebrate the Lunar New Year
The Claremont community came together during Lunar New Year season to celebrate the upcoming Year of the Dragon. Some 5C events, exhibitions, and excursions that took place over the weekend of Feb. 9-11 included the CSSA (Chinese Students and Scholars Association) spring festival, language resident Manxi Wang’s dumpling making and Scripps’ Clark Humanities Museum “Year of the Dragon” reception.
Queer Asian Reads: Pizza, sex and slacking in Jean Kyoung Frazier’s debut novel
Book columnist Reia Li PO ’24 was blown away by the main character— a weird queer biracial Asian femme slacker—in “Pizza Girl,” Jean Kyoung Frazier’s debut novel.
Queer Asian Reads: The whimsy, love and pain in Chen Chen’s poetry
Book columnist Reia Li PO ’24 reflects how Chinese American poet Chen Chen combines humor and empathy to create poems that are joyful as well as painful to read.
Queer Asian Reads: Why I struggled with Nghi Vo’s reimagining of The Great Gatsby
When book columnist Reia Li PO ‘24 first read Nghi Vo’s novel, “The Chosen and the Beautiful” (2021), she had mixed feelings. It wasn’t until she read Vo’s next book, “Siren Queen” (2022), that she understood why.