PinnedKang-Chun Cheng·Jun 7, 2021Preserving Kenya’s Sunken TreasureWritten and shot for Bloomberg Markets.
Kang-Chun Cheng·Nov 10, 2020A Case for Letting Us Go Back — Before We’re Killed from WithinEarly on in 2020, when we had little idea how deadly COVID-19 is, the uncertainty drove humanity into a black panic. As we’ve come to…
InThe Noodle ShopbyKang-Chun Cheng·Oct 6, 2020Chinese Involvement on the African Continent: Beyond Natural Resource ExportationThere are many extant critiques that China overlooks environmental degradation repercussions through its business involvement with African…
InThe Noodle ShopbyKang-Chun Cheng·Aug 31, 2020Food: Binding and Bringing Us BackMy mouth watered in anticipation of beans cooked in coconut oil accompanied by chapati– a kind of layered, unleavened flatbread of Indian…
InThe Noodle ShopbyKang-Chun Cheng·Aug 24, 2020How Leaving Home Made Me More ChineseA significant ritual that comes with growing up is venturing out in the world and relinquishing the familiarity that has ensconced you…
InThe Noodle ShopbyKang-Chun Cheng·Jul 21, 2020How the Male Gaze is Different Depending on Where I am/ the Sliding Scale of AttractionIn May, I was on my daily quarantine walk around Karen, Nairobi where I’ve been staying since lockdown began nearly 3 months ago. Karen is…
InThe Noodle ShopbyKang-Chun Cheng·Jul 16, 2020Beyond Skin-Deep: Is African and Chinese Culture as Different as We Think?The first guy I dated seriously is Kenyan. I’m a second generation Taiwanese-American who grew up in New Hampshire and the daughter of…A response icon1A response icon1
Kang-Chun Cheng·Jul 10, 2020July 6thHere’s the thing- for someone who thinks about the inevitability of death every day, I always forgot how no one Is making it out of this…
Kang-Chun Cheng·Jul 7, 2020What I Love MoreAfter 3 months of lockdown, I’ve finally been able to leave the concrete jungle that is Nairobi for some open space. That’s what I love…
Kang-Chun Cheng·Jun 27, 2020Running with Reindeer: my first hand experience with Arctic pastoralism in Finnmark“If I have time on my hands, I would try and get myself onto the spring migration of reindeer — 1 to 2 months from inland winter pasture…
