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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

International students from India increase while Chinese numbers dip

October 19, 2023

International students from South India who became friends at UA Tanya Ence, El Inde Arizona For the first time in almost 20 years, the number of students from India outnumber Chinese students...

Quong Kee (on right) in Tombstone, Ariz. with John L. Larrieu, Tombstone Justice of the Peace (left). (Photo Courtesy by Arizona Historical Society, Collection PC 1000, Photo No. 4866)

Chinese en Arizona

CJ D'Innocente December 4, 2017

Traducido por Javier Aispuro. Viajar en tren en Yuma con una caja con huesos en sus manos, G.W. Chapman hizo lo que muchos creyeron sacrílego. Vació una caja enorme llena de huesos de inmigrantes...

Quong Kee (on right) in Tombstone, Ariz. with John L. Larrieu, Tombstone Justice of the Peace (left). (Photo Courtesy by Arizona Historical Society, Collection PC 1000, Photo No. 4866)

Chinese in Arizona

Deborah Lee November 9, 2017

Traveling by train in Yuma with a box of bones in his hands, G.W. Chapman did what many believed to be sacrilegious. He dumped a huge box filled with dead Chinese immigrants' bones into the Colorado...

One of the lions during the Chinese New Year celebration's performance at the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center. (Photo by: Sara Cline/El Independiente)

Lions Dance in Tucson, After Lots of Practice

Sara Cline May 6, 2016

A dragon-like creature charges out from the side of the stage, his oversized red and yellow head sways back and forth to the beat of the drums. At the bang of a gong, the creature’s giant eyelids...

A picture on display at the Arizona History Museum of two unidentified Chinese men in 1890. Courtesy of Arizona Historical Society.

The little-known history of Arizona’s Chinese

Zach Pleeter October 29, 2015

One insight struck Chia-Lin Pao Tao when she arrived in Tucson in 1976.She was most surprised by how few Asians she saw along with little, if any, marks of Chinese legacy in the area. Today, she knows...

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