Teng Chen is a video journalist and documentary filmmaker based in NYC. She has a M.A. in News & Documentary from New York University and has worked for Dutch national broadcaster VPRO, ABC News and other media outlets. Teng comes from a little town in Fujian Province.
According to the nonprofit anti-trafficking organization Polaris Project, there were more than 9,000 illicit massage parlors in the United States in 2017, mostly staffed by Chinese women, aged 35-55, with at least one child in China. Their struggle is often one for family and dignity. Here is one woman’s story.
"Noodles are my second life," said Stony Xu, owner of Happy Stony Noodle in Flushing, New York. The first noodle shop originally opened in the 1950s in Taiwan by a group of Nationalist Party soldiers retreating to the island.