Johnnie To's "Office" in 3D at the Smithsonian
Johnnie To's "Office" will be screened as part of the Smithsonian's Hong Kong Film Festival. The "Office" film emerges out of Sylvia Chang's play "Design for Living," and depicts the fall and rise of a...
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Taking Action: Bruce Lee Podcast
At podcast #4, Shannon Lee, Bruce Lee's daughter considers the philosophy of Bruce Lee. Through the perspective of "taking action," Lee considers how Bruce Lee's philosophic ideas depended on a process...
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Hong Kong Boat Festival 2016
The Hong Kong Boat Festival 2016 in Flushing takes place this weekend August 6-7. This boat festival is rooted in a tradition associated with the poet Qu Yuan who is said to have jumped to his death in...
View ArticleFeel-Good Sports film: Take Off 2 opens
Between the truly spectacular athletes performing at the Olympics and the utter failure of some American television coverage of those amazing athletes, you might check out a few good, feel-good sports...
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Feature: Five Qs with Melissa R. Sipin
Nicknamed "small but terrible" by her lola, Melissa R. Sipin was born and raised in Carson, CA. She won Glimmer Train's Fiction Open and the Washington Square Review's Flash Fiction Prize, and...
View ArticleUmwelt: Image/Music/Text
In her video, Umwelt, Yoshiyuki Katayama showcases time-lapse film of flowers as they bloom. The accompanying piano music is by Kevin MacLeod, which parallels the drowsy awakening of what's pictured....
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Identities (Un)claimed: Peter Ho Davies'"The Fortunes"
In a recent Guardian interview, Peter Ho Davies considers his place as an American writer or rather as a writer living in America, writing about Americans. When Alex Clark asks if Davies would...
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Furuhashi: Lovers at the MoMA
At the MoMA, the work of Japanese artist Teiji Furuhashi (1960–1995), "Lovers," is on display. "Lovers" embraces its room-size exhibit space with projected images of nude dancers in motion, repose and...
View Article"The Yellow Man" in D.W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms
The fall semester begins this week and I'm putting some final touches on my syllabus. There's always more material than can fit into one semester. In preparing to discuss early Asian immigrant...
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Feature: Five Qs with Paul H. B. Shin
Paul H.B. Shin's debut novel follows a career as an award-winning journalist for more than 20 years, most recently for ABC News. He was previously a reporter and editor for the New York Daily News. He...
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Feature: Five Qs with Rashaan Alexis Meneses
Rashaan Alexis Meneses was recently named a finalist for the Center for Women Writers’ 2015 Reynolds Price Short Fiction International Literary Award and has received fellowships at The MacDowell...
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Yang and Ansari Win Emmy: "I Believe in Us"
For their writing on "Master of None," Alan Yang and Aziz Ansari won Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for the “Master of None” episode “Parents.” It was a much deserved win for the episode and...
View ArticleVu Tran on the History of Literature
In the latest episode of the History of Literature podcast, we get the lead in question: "What do Edith Wharton, Haruki Murakami, Raymond Chandler, John Fowles, Alfred Hitchcock, and Wong Kar-wai have...
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Feature: Five Qs with Sunisa Nardone Manning
Sunisa Nardone Manning was born and raised in Bangkok. Her mother is Thai and father American. She's received residencies from the Hambidge Center and Hedgebrook, and was an Affiliate Artist at...
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Feature: Five Qs with Beverly Parayno
Beverly Parayno is from San Jose, California. Her work appears in The Rumpus, Narrative, Huizache, Warscapes and Southword. She has an MA from University College Cork, Ireland and an MFA from Vermont...
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Feature: Five Qs with Jeff Chon
Jeff Chon is the editor-in-chief of The East Bay Review and is a graduate of the MFA program at Saint Mary's College of California. His work has appeared in Blunderbuss, The Portland Review, The Seneca...
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Steven Yeun: On the Cover of Entertainment Weekly
Steven Yeun is no longer "The Walking Dead." In a recent episode of the popular show, Yeun's character Glenn Rhee is brutally killed. While the character has died, the actor hits his stride with much...
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Feature: Five Qs with Ploi Pirapokin
Ploi Pirapokin was born in Thailand and raised in Hong Kong. Her work is forthcoming and featured in Apogee Journal, Tor.com, the Bellingham Review, Fiction International, the Griffith Review and more....
View ArticleA Musical Thanksgiving
On the eve of Thanksgiving, I'm drawn to songs that remind me of home and family. I remember back in my first year of college when I thought I had matured enough not to have to return home for...
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Feature: Five Qs with Meng Jin
Meng Jin's fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, The Masters Review, The Baltimore Review, and elsewhere. A Kundiman Fellow, she has an MFA from Hunter College and has received support from the M...
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Feature: Five Qs with Wawa and Henry Wei Leung
Wawa (aka Lo Mei Wa) is a Hong Kong poet. She received degrees in Philosophy from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Universiteit Leiden in the Netherlands. Some of her work can be found in Cha:...
View ArticleDonnie Yen: From Ip Man to Rogue One
For many Star Wars fans, myself included, Rogue One is a fun watch, not the least because of the new characters that give life to this seamless prequel to the Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. If...
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Best Asian American Books of 2016
Best Asian American Books of 2016a compilation of 2016's best Asian American (and Asian books in English translation) from NPR , NYTimes 100 Notable Books, the Guardian, and The Atlantic. FICTIONThe...
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Five Qs with Mai Nardone
Mai Nardone was raised in Bangkok, Thailand, by an American father and a Thai mother. He has received scholarships from the Tin House Writer’s Workshop and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a...
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Feature: Five Qs with Josh Mak
Josh Mak's fiction has appeared in The Offing, Joyland, and Hyphen Magazine. He has been a fellow at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France; a work-study scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers'...
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