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  1. Made on a shoestring budget, the hit Teochew film Dear You has triggered a surge of interest from the Chinese diaspora and those wishing to reconcile with regional cultures.

    The film has been one of China’s biggest box office surprises this year. Despite its modest 14 million yuan (US$2 million) production budget, it had grossed 1.9 billion yuan by June 27, less than two months after its release.

    The film, starring a largely rookie cast, debuted in April and was initially available on less than 4 per cent of the country’s screens, but has since grown into a national phenomenon through word of mouth.

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=egsyRCqd

    scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/

    #AsianMastodon #Teochew #Gaginang #ChineseFilm #ChineseCinema #ChineseDiaspora #ChineseCulture #NewFilms #GlobalSouthFilms #TootSEA #TeochewDiaspora #InternationalFilms

  2. Haiyaaa - this isn't /that/ far from where my relatives live!

    The uncle had a lucky escape from a #panther / #leopard who clawed him after he took a rest stop when driving his lorry (this would be equivalent to being jumped by a big cat in a layby of the A14)

    I didn't think you still had big cats that close to the cities..

    #Malaysia #ESEA #TootSEA #wildlife

    thestar.com.my/news/nation/202

  3. Part of my hearty #AsianBreakfast today is chai tow kway -> savoury #radish cake. I had it #TeochewViet style - fried, without eggs & with nuoc cham sauce poured over them.
    When I do them traditional Teochew Chinese style, we fry them with eggs & eat them with a soy sauce/red vinegar/chili sauce blend.
    Asher had breakfast earlier & was keeping my seat warm 😸

    #AsianMastodon #AsianFood #CholonFood #Teochew #Chaoshan #ChineseFood #TootSEA #CulturalFood #TraditionalFood #POCfoods #GlobalSouthFood

  4. Late upload: undas + pagpag (part 1)
    Featuring:
    - My partner & her Cha Tuk Cha
    - The traditional picnic over Lolo & (and now) Lola's grave
    - my gf's brother + his bf brought #tobiiDog for pagpag!!

    #allSaints #allSoulsDay #DayOfTheDead #bubbleTea #dogsOfMastodon #undas #philippines #halloween #tootSEA

  5. The only #AsianDiaspora that I ever see trying to justify ongoing #USAFascism are almost all younger ones, who were born in safety & not under horrific frontlines war conditions. I think that is a huge reason why they can't truly comprehend folks like me - who were conceived/born under live war fire. Instead of being privileged & inexperienced with colonial violence in their own lives & trying to make USA seem decent - they should listen to living, hella working poor survivors like me, more & become more comfortable with cruel, discomforting evils that they never had to experience themselves.

    They do us survivors - massive injustices - by trying to make the people who killed so many of our family, seem OK. They aren't fucking OK, unless you're so privileged that you can ignore us better than you promote them.

    #AsianMastodon #TootSEA #WarSurvivorsForPeace #StopWhitewashing #InternalizedRacism #PrivilegedAsians #FuckingCowards

  6. #TuneTuesday (Aug 12)

    First released in 1997, “Snow on the Sahara” was the song that catapulted Indonesian artist #Anggun to the international stage and it’s not hard to see why. The song’s worldly appeal with new-age and tribal motifs still makes it a jam to this day.

    youtu.be/kpj3ra3AeJk

    #Indonesia #tootSEA #music #songs #earworms

  7. This thread will be full of unique #PreservedLemons related recipes.

    Chicken with Preserved Lemon Soup.
    A delectable #Khmer ethnic dish known for its aromatic flavors. This traditional comfort soup features chicken & preserved lemons.

    cambodiarecipe.com/recipe/chic

    #AsianMastodon #Cambodian #AsianFood #EthnicEats #CulturalFood #TraditionalFood #POCfoods #Cooking #Recipes #AsianCooking #SouthEastAsianFood #TootSEA

  8. Melchora Aquino (January 6, 1812 – February 19, 1919) was a #Filipino revolutionary. Aquino was known as "Tandang Sora" (tandang means "old") because of her old age during the #Philippine #Revolution (1896-1899). She was known by Philippine revolutionary soldiers as Tandang Sora, an acknowledgement of her wisdom & seniority. She was considered a Filipino counterpart to British nurse, Florence Nightingale. She was also known as the "Grand Woman of the Revolution" & "Mother of Balintawak" for her contributions.

    Aquino was born on the feast of the Epiphany & named after Melchior, one of the Three Wise Men. She was the daughter of peasants, Juan & Valentina Aquino & she never attended school. Yet, she was literate at an early age. Also talented as a singer. She performed at community events & at Mass for church. She was often chosen for the role of Reyna Elena during the "Santacruzan", a big pageant commemorating Empress Helen's finding of the Cross of Christ, celebrated in the #Philippines in May.

    Her husband, Fulgencio Ramos, a cabeza de barrio (village chief) died when their youngest child was 7 & she was left as a single parent for their 6 children. Tandang Sora continued life as an hermana mayor, active in celebrating fiestas, baptisms & weddings. She worked hard to give her children an education. She became a self taught nurse & her medical services helped to save many lives during the Philippine Revolution.

    Aquino operated a store, which became refuge for revolutionaries. In 1896, when she was 84 years old, the Philippine revolution began. Her store served as a make-shift hospital where she provided medical care for sick/wounded revolutionists. She also provided food, shelter, encouragement, and prayers for the soldiers, even hosting 1,000 men in her home’s yard during the Cry of Balintawak. Secret meetings of the #Katipuneros ( #AntiColonialism revolutionaries) were often held at her house. She & her son, Juan Ramos, were present in the Cry of Balintawak & witnessed the tearing up of the cedulas(Spanish issued ID papers).

    When the #Spaniards learned about her activities & her knowledge to the whereabouts of the Katipuneros, she was arrested by guardia civil on August 29, 1896. She was held captive in the house of a cabeza de barangay of Pasong Putik, Novaliches. Then transferred to Bilibid Prison in Manila. While in prison, she was interrogated & refused to divulge information. She was deported to Guam, Marianas Islands by Governor General Ramón Blanco. In Guam, she & a woman named Segunda Puentes were placed under house arrest in the residence of a Don Justo Dungca.

    After the United States took control of the Philippines in 1898, Tandang Sora, like other exiles, returned to the Philippines in 1903. She later became an active member of the Philippine Independent Church.

    She died at her daughter Saturnina's house in Banlat on February 19, 1919, at the age of 107. She received full state honors after her death. After years of being unnoticed for her efforts in the revolution. Her remains were first interred at the Mausoleum of the Veterans of the Revolution at the Manila South Cemetery. These were then transferred to the Himlayang Pilipino Memorial Park in Quezon City in 1970 & finally at the Tandang Sora National Shrine in 2012.

    Ref: "The Tandang Sora bicentennial". Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines. February 26, 2021

    Ref: Doran, Christine (1998). "Women in the Philippine Revolution". Philippine Studies. JSTOR 42634272
    jstor.org/stable/42634272

    Ref: filipiknow.net/surprising-fact

    Ref: Kirstin Olsen, ed. (1994). Chronology of women's history. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313288036

    Ref: Augusto V. de Viana, "In the Far Islands,: The Role of Natives from the Philippines in the Conquest, Colonization and Repopulation of the Mariana Islands. 2004.

    Ref: Isagani R. Medina, "Melchora Aquino Wife of Fulgencio Ramos," In: Women in the Philippine Revolution, Rafaelita Hilario Soriano, ed. Quezon City: Printon Press, 1995.

    Photos are from Wikimedia Commons.

    #AsianMastodon #TootSEA #SouthEastAsiaHistory #PhillipinesHistory #ColonialismInAsia #FilipinoRevolutionaries #WomenOfTheResistance #RevolutionaryWomen #FilipinoWomen #FilipinoHistory #PhillipineRevolution #GlobalSouth #AsianHistory #HistoricalFigures #AsianWomen #AsianRevolutionaries #Nurses #NurturingAsResistance #SoftPowerStrength

  9. Nguyễn Thị Bình is a granddaughter of the Nationalist leader Phan Chu Trinh. She grew up in a land that had been under French rule since 1858. The country’s resources were plundered, & the people exploited as cheap labour & reduced to grinding poverty. So determined were the French to maintain their colonial hold at any cost, they collaborated in power-sharing with Japanese #fascist #occupiers who brought horror & starvation from 1940-1945.

    Despite this, led by the #VietMinh Front, people of Vietnam triumphed in the #AugustRevolution of 1945 & the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam (DRV) was declared on September 2nd. Democratic elections took place in January 1946 but French troops, with the open support of the US & Britain, attacked the new Viet Minh administration in the south of the country & the #WarOfResistance against #France began.

    Binh studied French at Lycée Sisowath in Cambodia & worked as a teacher during the #French #colonisation of Vietnam. She joined #VietnamCommunistParty in 1948. Upon joining, she immediately began work as a #grassroots #AntiColonial organiser. From 1945-1951, she took part in intellectual protest movements against French #colonists. She was arrested & jailed between 1951-1953 in #Saigon by the French #colonial authority in Vietnam. She was repeatedly interrogated under torture & sentenced to death but was reprieved & released in very poor health in 1954.

    Upon release from prison, Binh went north to work in #Hanoi for the National #WomensUnion. Her job took her to many localities where she witnessed first-hand the impact of #colonialism & the French War on ordinary people & especially women & children.

    1954 was a year of victory for the Vietnamese army. The defeated French were forced to sign the #GenevaAccords recognising the independence, sovereignty & unity of Vietnam. The country was temporarily split in two at the 17th parallel, with the French moving to the south from which they would withdraw, while the Viet Minh went to the north. A general election for the government of a united country was to follow within 2 years.

    But it never happened. The #USA came centre stage to ensure that the Accords were never implemented. Driven by strategic interests in the region, it made sure that Vietnam stayed divided – preventing an election that would have swept Ho Chi Minh to power with 80% support, while bankrolling & controlling the reactionary #regime of Diem-Nhu south of the 17th parallel. This regime violently suppressed all opposition, executing of thousands of Viet Minh supporters & condemning hundreds of thousands to concentration camps and prisons.

    In response, the NLF (for liberation of South Vietnam & unification) was formed in 1960. Nguyen Thi Chau Sa was assigned to the Foreign Affairs Section of its Re-unification Committee & given the name Nguyen Thi Binh (Peace). From 1962 onwards, her high-profile diplomatic work, took her across the world. She represented the aspirations of the people of Vietnam in every country & forum she visited, while the world’s strongest #imperialist power made all-out war on her small country.

    During the #VietnamWar, she became a member of the #Vietcong Central Committee and a vice-chairperson of the South Vietnamese #WomensLiberation Association. In 1969 she was appointed foreign minister of the Provisional #Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam. A fluent French speaker, Bình played a major role in the #ParisPeaceAccords - an agreement that was supposed to end the war & restore peace in Vietnam.

    She was expected to be replaced by a male Vietcong representative after preliminary talks, but became one of the group's most visible international public figures. During this time, she was famous for representing Vietnamese women with her elegant & gracious style, and was referred to by the media as "Madame Bình". She was also referred to as the "Viet Cong Queen" by Western media.

    After the war, she was appointed Minister of Education of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 1982-1986; the first female minister ever in the history of Vietnam. Binh was a member of the Central Committee of Vietnam's Communist Party from 1987-1992. She was the Deputy Chair of the Party's Central Foreign Affairs Commission & Chair of the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee. The National Assembly elected her twice to position of Vice President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for the terms 1992–1997 & 1997–2002.

    Bình has authored several op-eds, including a one on the state newspaper Nhân Dân in which she voiced concerns that the current personnel policy of the Communist Party of Vietnam have allowed some "incompetent and opportunistic" individuals to enter the party's apparatus. She also criticized the Party's focus on increasing membership at the expense of "quality."

    From March 2009-2014, she served as a member of the support committee of #RussellTribunal on #Palestine.

    Madame Bình became a source of inspiration & namesake for Madame Binh Graphics Collective, a #RadicalLeft all-women poster, printmaking, & street art collective based in NYC from 1970s-1980s.
    Many Americans in the #AntiWar movement were proud to wear T-shirts printed with the portrait of "Madame Binh". By then, she had become a symbol for female soldiers of the legitimacy of Vietnam's efforts.

    Madame Bình has been awarded many prestigious awards & honours, including the Order of Ho Chi Minh & Resistance Order (First Class). In 2021, President of Vietnam Nguyễn Xuân Phúc awarded her the 75-year Party Membership Commemorative Medal.
    To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam, the Government of Vietnam commissioned the official portraits for 12 former foreign ministers from 1945-2020. Nguyễn Thị Bình was included among them as the only South Vietnamese foreign minister & the only woman.

    Ref: Nguyen Thi Binh". Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography (3rd ed.). Boston: Northeastern University Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-55553-421-9

    Ref: Triantafillou, Eric (3 May 2012). "Graphic Uprising". The Brooklyn Rail. 

    Ref: russelltribunalonpalestine.com

    Ref: Hy V. Luong (2003), Postwar Vietnam: dynamics of a transforming society, Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 0847698653

    #AsianMastodon #Vietnam #VietnameseRevolutionaries #ColonialResistance #Communist #VietnameseHistory #AsianHistory #SouthEastAsia #Viet #Geopolitics #USWarOnVietnam #LongLiveVietnam #VietnameseSovereignty #LearnHistory #TootSEA #WomenOfTheResistance #Changemakers #Feminist #TrailblazingWomen #WomenWhoChangeTheWorld #VietCongWomen #DebunkingUSLies

  10. Sentenced to death, Trỗi got a reprieve after the FALN, a #Venezuelan #MarxistLeninist #guerrilla group, kidnapped US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Michael Smolen in revenge for Trỗi's sentence. The group threatened to kill Smolen if Trỗi was executed. Smolen was eventually released unharmed, and Trỗi was shot by firing squad shortly thereafter in Chí Hòa Prison.

    In the West, Trỗi's arrest went largely unreported. Major news media did not report on Trỗi at all until the #FALN kidnapping episode. His anonymity persisted after his execution, despite the honors bestowed upon him in the #EasternBloc. Apart from advocacy by #revolutionaries like the Weather Underground & a brief mention in Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book (1971) as a "Vietnamese hero", Trỗi is still rarely acknowledged in Western accounts of the #VietnamWar.

    Many cities in Vietnam have named major streets after him. In #HồChíMinh City, the road upon which McNamara traveled ,& where Trỗi planned to assassinate him is named Nguyen Van Troi Boulevard & a memorial park, Bia tưởng niệm Anh Hung Liet Si Nguyễn Văn Trỗi is located near the former Cong Ly Bridge. In #ĐàNẵng, the Nguyễn Văn Trỗi Bridge spans the Hàn River. Other countries have commemorated Trỗi, particularly #Cuba. A 14,000-seat public stadium in #Guantánamo is named Nguyen Van Troi Stadium & his statue overlooks Nguyen Van Troi Park in #Havana; the city also has a school & hospital named for him.

    Anti-war activists Jane Fonda & Tom Hayden named their son, an actor now known as Troy Garity, in honor of Trỗi.

    The 1975 film Chronicle of a #LatinAmerican subversive (Spanish: Crónica de un subversivo latinoamericano) by director Mauricio Walerstein, narrates the kidnapping episode of Colonel Smolen by FALN guerrillas in response to Trỗi's death sentence.

    (Ref: Doling, Tim (2019). Exploring Saigon-Cholon – Vanishing Heritage of Ho Cho Minh City. Thế Giới Publishers. ISBN 9786047761388.)

    (Ref: web.archive.org/web/2010080301)

    (Ref: rottentomatoes.com/m/cronica-d)

    #AsianMastodon #Vietnam #VietnameseRevolutionaries #ColonialResistance #Communist #VietnameseHistory #AsianHistory #SouthEastAsia #Viet #Geopolitics #USWarOnVietnam #LongLiveVietnam #VietnameseSovereignty #LearnHistory #TootSEA

  11. ICYMI, this is the first time the Filipinos have been explicitly represented in the #Civilization strategy game. (José Rizal is currently one of the several civilization-less leaders that can be selected when a new age starts.)

    youtu.be/SGQqyKDdHfU

    #Philippines #tootSEA #JoséRizal #SidMeiersCivilization #StrategyGames

  12. Today is Rizal Day, a public holiday in the #Philippines 🇵🇭 honoring the martyrdom of national hero #JoséRizal. Rizal was executed on 30 December 1896 after being charged for sedition and rebellion against the Spanish colonial government.

    As a simple token, here is a photo I took in 2017 of a historical marker installed by the Philippines’ national historical agency in Berlin at the site where Rizal stayed while writing his first novel, Noli Me Tangere.

    #HistoricalMarkers #history #tootSEA

  13. My former high school history teacher has a compelling oral history series on YouTube documenting many interesting things and people in Singapore.

    In this episode he talks to Syamala Sen, a Malayalee woman from Kerala who moved to Singapore in 1979. They discuss her challenges in settling down in Singapore and her life today

    youtube.com/watch?v=3cPDtL3n6A

    #Singapore #Mallu #Malayalee #Kerala #TootSea #OralHistory

  14. Made some of our family's Teochew #Cholon style, black pepper & soy braised pork with cucumbers & steamed rice. The braised sauce is great poured over rice & cucumbers. We are eating it with a small bowl of chicken pho flavoured broth soup with green onions, cilantro & bits of soft tofu(not pictured). Our family's #AsianBreakfast today 😊

    #AsianMastodon #AsianFood #EthnicEats #CulturalFood #POCfoods #FoodCulture #Homemade #homecooking #food #Cuisine #culinary #SouthEastAsianFood #AsianDiaspora #TootSEA #AsianComfortFood #food #cooking #Pork #CholonCuisine #Lunch #FeedingMyFamily #Teochew #Rice #Cucumbers

  15. Made Vietnamese Bò Kho. It's a traditional hearty Vietnamese beef & carrot stew. A very popular comfort food from Vietnam. People usually eat it with some noodles or baguette(for dipping).

    #AltText Photo:
    Vietnamese beef & carrot stew cooking in large pot. A ladle is raised in pot. In the ladle is beef, carrot, ginger, lemongrass stick & Chinese cinnamon stick aka cassia bark.

    #AsianMastodon #BoKho #AsianFood #VietnameseFood #EthnicEats #CulturalFood #SoupLovers #Stew #POCfoods #FoodCulture #Homemade #homecooking #food #Cuisine #culinary #Vietnamese #SouthEastAsianFood #AsianDiaspora #TootSEA #AsianComfortFood #food #cooking #BeefStew #CholonCuisine #Lunch #FeedingMyFamily

  16. [ #CantoneseCuisine has countless types of #noodles that use various ingredients and techniques. The noodle-eating culture in #HongKong, which historically has been part of the #Guangdong region, is heavily influenced by #Cantonese #cuisine. In this episode of #EatDrinkAsia, #SouthChinaPost reporter Lisa Cam visits #chefs and #NoodleMakers in the city to learn about the various types of noodles for different dishes. She also looks at how local businesses are preserving traditional noodle-making techniques while also coming up with new creations.]

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=a-glTsUx

    #AsianMastodon #ChineseFood #AsianFood #HKFood #CantoneseFood #TootSEA #SouthEastAsia #NoodleLovers #ILoveNoods #POCfoods #SouthEastAsianFood #Food

  17. AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Napanalunan ni #CarlosYulo ang ikalawang gintong medalya 🥇 (pati unang medalya sa #Paris2024 at sa #gymnastics) ng Pilipinas 🇵🇭 sa #Olympics!

    #Philippines #tootSEA #MensGymnastics #FloorExercise