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On view at @accentsisters from Oct 16-Nov 5! Under the Common Sea 海的下面还有海 is curated by @maybemuyi from Hǎi 海 and @amamyqqq from @accentsisters.

Opening reception on Friday Oct 16, 6:30-8:30pm.

RSVP LINK IN BIO.

Participating Artists and Organizations:
Yan Jin @yanjin.art
Kyla Liang @kylaliangphoto
Qiqing Lin @qiqing077
Artemis Lyu @artemislyu_
Chengtao Yi @peachyiii
yi yang @yiyang____
Sarah Xu @_sarahxu
Noah Zhou @noahzzhou
An And Foundation @an_and_foundation
Sunset Park Older Adult Center Members

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The title borrows Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s concept of the undercommons: forms of collective life, knowledge, and relationships that take shape beneath or beyond the structures of institutional recognition. The exhibition looks beyond familiar narratives of professional success and economic achievement and turns its attention to the many ways Chinese diasporic populations build lives, relationships, and communities through art, culture, care, education, service, organizing, and other forms of labor.

⁡All made in the past three years, artworks in Under the Common Sea 海的下面还有海 trace linguistic and visual similarities and differences across borders, intergenerational connections through craft, and human adaptability and resilience shaped by migration. The artists and organizations use installation, painting, textile, and archive materials to reflect on Chinese and Sinophone diasporic experience in the United States, with a particular focus on New York City.

#chineseimmigrants #diaspora #nycevent #artcuration #culture by @all.time.hai

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Under the Common Sea 海的下面还有海
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Group exhibition curated by Muyi Xiao @maybemuyi of Hǎi 海 @all.time.hai, a new project from Asia Society’s ChinaFile, and Amy Yuanchen Qian @amamyqqq of Accent Sisters, at @accentsisters from Oct 16 - Nov 5, 2026

Opening Reception: Friday, Oct 16, 2026
Doors: 6:30pm
Welcome and Artist-led walkthrough: 7:00pm
Live DJ set by @itsdjgabe: 7:30-8:15pm

RSVP VIA LINK IN BIO

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The exhibition explores the diverse lives, experiences, and cultural practices of Chinese diasporic communities in the United States.

The title borrows Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s concept of the undercommons: forms of collective life, knowledge, and relationships that take shape beneath or beyond the structures of institutional recognition. The exhibition looks beyond familiar narratives of professional success and economic achievement and turns its attention to the many ways Chinese diasporic populations build lives, relationships, and communities through art, culture, care, education, service, organizing, and other forms of labor.

⁡All made in the past three years, artworks in Under the Common Sea 海的下面还有海 trace linguistic and visual similarities and differences across borders, intergenerational connections through craft, and human adaptability and resilience shaped by migration. The artists and organizations use installation, painting, textile, and archive materials to reflect on Chinese and Sinophone diasporic experience in the United States, with a particular focus on New York City.

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Participating Artists and Organizations:
Yan Jin @yanjin.art
Kyla Liang @kylaliangphoto
Lin Qiqing @qiqing077
Artemis Lyu @artemislyu_
Chengtao Yi @peachyiii
yi yang @yiyang____
Sarah Xu @_sarahxu
Noah Zhou @noahzzhou
An And Foundation @an_and_foundation
Sunset Park Older Adult Center Members

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Light snacks and beverages will be served at the opening reception, including tingly Sichuan peppercorn bites from @50hertztinglyfoods, and Qinghong rice wine from @fuzhousisters.
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Poster design by @_aretexu_
Cover image courtesy of Emile Bocian
Featuring works by @peachyiii and @kylaliangphoto

#Chineseimmigrants #Chinesediaspora #culture #contemporaryart taken in New York City by @all.time.hai

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8 days ago

New open call! 🌊
Submission Deadline: Sep 25, 2026, 11:59 PM EST
Accent Sisters invites submissions for Under the Common Sea 海的下面还有海, a group exhibition exploring the diverse lives, experiences, and cultural practices of Chinese diasporic communities in the United States. The title Under the Common Sea draws from Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s concept of the undercommons: forms of collective life, knowledge, and relation that take shape beneath or beyond the structures of institutional recognition. Here, the exhibition looks beyond familiar narratives of professional success and economic achievement and turns its attention to the many ways Chinese diasporic populations build lives, relationships, and communities through art, culture, care, education, service, organizing, and other forms of labor. We are looking for practices including but not limited to:

Social / Communal Practices ( submission could take the form of video documentation, photography, etc.)
Painting and drawing
Photography
Moving image and video
Sculpture and installation
Text-based work
Performance

This exhibit is a collaboration between Muyi Xiao of Hǎi 海 @all.time.hai a new project from Asia Society’s ChinaFile, and Amy Yuanchen Qian @amamyqqq of Accent Sisters, the exhibition brings together artwork and cultural practice which engage with Chinese and Sinophone diasporic experience in the United States, with a particular focus on New York City.

We are interested in practices that rethink cross-cultural lived experience and landscapes, explore forms of cultural and communal labor, and engage with the local contexts in which diasporic communities create, sustain, and reinvent their lives.

Location: Accent Sisters, 89 5th Ave #702, New York, NY 10002
Submission Fee: $25 (redeemable as a coupon for Accent workshops and books)
Submission link in bio by @all.time.hai

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@c.caiwei takes over the latest edition of our newsletter and uses an interview about The Odyssey to explain a collision of two audiences, and their cultural preoccupations and anxieties. Caiwei may spend “an unhealthy amount of time” online, but she’s also shared great IRL recommendations for food, music, reading, art, and comedy. Link in bio.
#theodyssey #christophernolan #media #chineseinternet by @all.time.hai

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2 months ago

Many Chinese journalists joined Western newsrooms hoping to report with more freedom. But some have become disillusioned by the gap between the stories they want to tell and the stories their newsrooms prioritize, as more than a dozen journalists shared anonymously with @mangmang_editorial
#journalism #china #pressfreedom by @all.time.hai

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. @beimeng_fu and @catmorbiato have worked jointly for many months to explore how Mexico City has allowed immigrant Chinese women to pursue entrepreneurial aspirations that eluded them back in China. Beimeng and Caterina each brought her own expertise and perspective to bear on this transnational piece of reporting. Photographs by @_mahelipe_

Read the full story in Hǎi 海’s latest newsletter. Link in bio.
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#méxico #chinesebusiness #immigration #chinamexico #womeninbusiness by @all.time.hai

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China’s booming high-end coffee scene is starting to go global. Hǎi 海’s editor @xiaomuyizi tried specialty coffee grown in China’s Yunnan province for the first time, in NYC. @anvianne of SeedFuture took her to @coffeeprojectny’s Long Island City location, one of the few NYC cafés serving Yunnan coffee, and introduced her to Yunnan’s coffee farming scene. Coffee Project’s @sum_coffeeprojectny brewed them a tasty cup.
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#specialtycoffee #yunnan #nyccafe #chinesecoffee #coffeehistory by @all.time.hai

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For the latest issue of Hǎi 海’s newsletter (link in bio), @shenlueats wrote about a textile workshop she attended with a group of elderly Chinese immigrants in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood. Shen felt disconnected from the Chinese neighborhood she’d lived in for years. The “grannies,” as she found herself calling them, brought her a new sense of belonging—and a renewed appetite for writing.

#sunsetparkbrooklyn #immigrantstories #writing #knitting by @all.time.hai

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For the latest issue of Hǎi 海’s newsletter (link in bio), writer and former Wall Street Journal correspondent @shenlueats wrote an opening essay exploring her journey from a village in Zhejiang, where she grew up on her grandma’s cooking, to the private dining club she now hosts in Brooklyn.

We hope this will be the first in a series of newsletter takeovers. Let us know if you’d be interested in doing a Hǎi 海 takeover of your own.

#howchinalivesintheworld #chinesefood #chinesevillage #homecooking #immigrantfood by @all.time.hai

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Comic artist Leise Hook @leisehook talked to Hǎi海 about her new graphic memoir, "Names and Faces," in which she illustrates a story of identity, exploring “the in-betweenness of being mixed-race.”

Hook relates memories from her childhood, growing up in Michigan, Virginia, and for one year in Japan, with a Chinese mother and a white father, and then on her own as an adult in Beijing and New York. She weaves together her artistic journey with her search for self-understanding. And she interrogates the assumptions people make about her identity, and those she has made herself.

Read more about it in Hǎi海’s latest newsletter. Link in bio.

#graphicnovel #mixrace #wasian #crossculture #selfexploration by @all.time.hai

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Historically, the U.S. government has been a primary funder of China-related human rights work. Human rights advocate @yaqiu123 talks with Hǎi 海 editor @jinyumi about the problems with U.S. government funding, even before the recent cuts. She argues that China human rights activists should instead seek funding sources less likely to tie donations to other geopolitical agendas.
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#humanrights #geopolítics #internationalrelation #humanrightsdefenders by @all.time.hai

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The U.S. government has long been a primary funder of China-related human rights work. Human rights advocate @yaqiu123 argues that instrumentalizing human rights for geopolitical “great power competition” can undermine the long-term credibility of the work. Yaqiu also argues the U.S. has a “double standard” approach to human rights: its international work is heavily influenced by its foreign policy agenda, and human rights at home are deteriorating.

Recent deep cuts to U.S. support for China human rights work have dealt a serious blow, but they might also provide an opening to explore other, perhaps better, models of funding. In a conversation with Hǎi 海 editor @jinyumi, Yaqiu says China human rights activists should try to source funding from members of the Chinese diaspora, who have the financial resources and political inclinations to support human rights work for its own sake.

#humanrights #foreignpolicy #globaljustice #internationalrelations #humanrightsactivist by @all.time.hai

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