Author Ava Chin poses next to the cover of her recent book, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming Author headshot via Tommy Kha hide caption
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Nearly half of the major cities in China are sinking, a new study finds. Subsidence exacerbates flooding related to sea level rise from climate change. Parts of Shanghai have subsided up to 9 feet in the last century. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The Smithfield feed processing mill producing food for nearby hog-raising farms in Milford, Utah. Jon G. Fuller/VW Pics/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images hide caption
Author Ava Chin poses next to the cover of her recent book, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming Author headshot via Tommy Kha hide caption
Finding generations of family — and history — on Chinatown's Mott Street
Demonstrators gather outside Zhongshan Park in Wuhan, China, to protest changes to medical benefits, on Wednesday, in this still image from social media video obtained by Reuters. Social media via Reuters hide caption
Retirees in China hold rare protests against health insurance reforms
Travelers wearing face masks with their luggage head to the immigration counter at the departure hall at Lok Ma Chau station following the reopening of crossing border with mainland China, in Hong Kong, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. Bertha Wang/AP hide caption
A Chinese J-11 military fighter jet flies above the Taiwan Strait near Pingtan, the closest land of mainland China to the island of Taiwan, in southeastern China's Fujian Province on Aug. 5, 2022. Ng Han Guan/AP hide caption
FILE - This combination image shows U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington, Nov. 6, 2021, and China's President Xi Jinping in Brasília, Brazil, Nov. 13, 2019. Alex Brandon, Eraldo Peres/AP hide caption
People pray during a prayer vigil in Irvine, Calif., Monday, May 16, 2022. The vigil was held to honor victims in Sunday's shooting at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, Calif. Jae C. Hong/AP hide caption
Members of the National Students' Union of India burn a poster showing Chinese President Xi Jinping during an anti-China demonstration in Ahmedabad on June 18, 2020. Sam Panthaky/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Husband and wife coaching team Christopher Pei and Zhang Guifeng watch 10-year-old Tony Wong practice Wushu. The two have been teaching the sport for 30 years. Shuran Huang/NPR hide caption
Protesters fend off tear gas and riot police in Hong Kong on Sunday. Pro-democracy demonstrations in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory have been going on for several weeks. Vincent Yu/AP hide caption
A DJI Technology drone flies during a demonstration in Shenzhen, China, in 2014. DJI sells the majority of Chinese-made drones bought in the United States. Kin Cheung/AP hide caption
The freckles on the face of model Li Jingwen, visible on this digital ad for Zara, started a conversation on Chinese social media that had 500 million views. Zara hide caption
National Security Adviser John Bolton speaks during a White House news briefing in October. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
Transcript: NPR's Interview With National Security Adviser John Bolton
The Iranian oil tanker Sanchi was ablaze Sunday after a collision with a freighter off China's east coast. One crew member is dead and 31 are missing, as rescue efforts are hampered by bad weather and the fire. AP hide caption
A Statue for Our Harbor was published in 1881. It expressed the fear of Chinese immigrants, which led to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act 135 years ago. George Frederick Keller/Historical Society of Pennsylvania hide caption
Shanghai pedicurist Ju-wen Zu and NPR's Aarti Shahani talk, aided by a translation app that may change the way we travel abroad forever. Aarti Shahani/NPR hide caption
Pictures of people who were incarcerated at Manzanar War Relocation Center are displayed alongside family tags at Manzanar National Historic Site near Independence, Calif., in 2015. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
A shopper walks past a Qiaodan Sports retail shop on Thursday in Beijing, China. Ng Han Guan/AP hide caption
U.S. President Barack Obama disembarks from Air Force One upon his arrival at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. VCG via Getty Images hide caption
Eddie Huang is a chef and restaurateur, a TV host and the author of two memoirs. Donald Traill/Invision/AP hide caption