They never eat rice. They don’t know chopsticks from Chopin. They can’t pronounce Jinqiang (it comes out Ching Chong) to save their lives. Almost 18, Desdemona (a lively Monica Ho) longs to ...

Chinese immigrant Kin Moi Ching (1860-1955) arrived in Honolulu aboard the Chinese steamer “Wo Chung” out of Canton, China in 1879, during the reign of King David Kalakaua, and stayed there ...