As tension between China and the United States continues to escalate, little research has looked into how geopolitical conflicts impact the Chinese Diasporas in these two nations. Filtering his life through empire and AsianCrit, the author illustrates his racializing encounters with empires in educational institutions and the larger Chinese and U.S. societies. Implications include how scholars can address the historical, theoretical, and practical gaps in urban education research, connect empire with critical race theory to enrich urban education research, and leverage their counterstories to help teachers and teacher educators undo imperialism in practice.