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The Chinese Migrants of Chiang Mai — The Dial

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The Dial is a nonprofit newsroom that relies on reader donations. If you DONATE before December 31, your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar. Thank you for your support! All throughout my travels in Chiang Mai, I’ve been meeting Chinese people. From the bar stool of one of Chiang Mai’s infamous jazz bars, where an older Chinese man enthusiastically recommends me a beer, based on his seven years of living here; to the Chinese mom and her kid in the back of a shared taxi, riding into a suburban neighborhood that looks like it was lifted out of California; to the uncle and his adult cousin at the weed bar, faces pink, nervous but excited to try weed for the first time. People who have left China — to make a new life or to escape an old one — are everywhere. I started interviewing people: ones that had made Chiang Mai their home, ones that were scoping it out in the thoughts of moving here, some that just wanted to leave China. This feeling of movement, of being squeezed out economical

The Chinese Migrants of Chiang Mai Reporting Dec 14 Written By Amy Zhang Voices from a new diaspora DECEMBER 14, 2023 All throughout my travels in Chiang Mai, I’ve been meeting Chinese people. From the bar stool of one of Chiang Mai’s infamous jazz bars, where an older Chinese man enthusiastically recommends me a beer, based on his seven years of living here; to the Chinese mom and her kid in the back of a shared taxi, riding into a suburban neighborhood that looks like it was lifted out of California; to the uncle and his adult cousin at the weed bar, faces pink, nervous but excited to try we

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