Asian Men and Interracial Dating

When I see an Asian man with a non-Asian woman, ...

The Lou Jing Ripple Effect

What constitutes one's identity? This is the question that has ...

Why Asian Americans Are Leading America's Cultural Evolution

An Wang, Amar Bose, Charles Wang, David Ho, Jerry Yang, ...

Grading Hawaii Five-O

If there is an Asian American home on American network ...

North Korea, the Ultimate Reality Show

North Korea looms larger in humanity's consciousness than all but ...

The Dangers of Scape- goating China's Yuan

Leaders of distressed economies like to direct rhetoric at a ...

Rutgers's Shameful Asian American Duo

Tyler Clementi jumped from the George Washington Bridge after his ...

Reflections on Summer in Lake Tahoe

When I was going to school Lake Tahoe was synonymous ...

Mao's Last Dancer Satisfies Asian American Audiences

The movie version of Mao's Last Dancer deserves our admiration ...

Recognizing China As America's Growth Engine

Americans are fretting about a 9.5% jobless rate that isn't ...

How Japan Can Reverse Its Decline

Today the Nikkei 225 index closed at 9,161.68. The same ...

Racism, Democratic Reforms and China's Reverse Brain Drain

The world has been clamoring for China to adopt democratic ...

Asian American Men in a Colorblind World

Living in a supposedly colorblind world can be hard on ...

End of U.S. Consumer Hegemony A Boon for Asian Americans

Economists have taken as an article of faith that U.S. ...

Why Jeremy Lin Matters So Much to Asian Americans

That a guy who can shoot, sky and scrap like ...

Japan's Robot Strategy Offers Blueprint for Humanity

Japan's population growth rate peaked at about 2% back in ...

Denying China's Economic Clout

As recently as the end of last year most business ...

2010 Elections: Inducing Mass Amnesia

When you are young you tend to see a world ...

Interdependence Day: New Meaning for July 4th

Few Americans watching and setting off July 4th fireworks were ...

China Struggles to Emerge from U.S. Shadow

In early June China rejected a proposed visit by Defense ...

How Hallyu-wood Is Challenging Hollywood

Hallyu is a term coined in 1999 by a Beijing ...

Identity, The Ultimate Luxury

Identity is the Asian American Rorschach inkblot test. Depending on ...

American Democracy and the Tyranny of Old Prejudices

A New World Order and the New Asian Face

In less than half a century Asia has gone from ...

Asian American Consumer Clout Over Premium Brands

No one in California will be surprised to learn that ...

Korean Mishaps, Obama Failure Among G20 Summit Ironies

The Seoul G20 summit was supposed to be a chance ...

Little Emperor Syndrome and China's Me Generation

A recent encounter with a group of young Chinese tourists ...

Asian American Near-Thanksgiving List

Thanksgiving is more than just a time to gather with ...

Putting Aymmetric Warfare Back on Our Side

Cutting our ground troops in Afghanistan may reflect key advances ...

Tragedy of the Fanatical Preference for Sons

Asia's impulse to amplify the gender imbalance is ensuring both ...

Finding Our Own Personal Independence Day

The 4th of July takes the author back to the ...

Exploiting the Short Memories of American Voters

The GOP is once again betting big on the short ...

What U.S.-China Military Ties Mean for the World

A true partnership with China promises the best chance to ...

Asian Killers, American Causes

The latest is Jiverly Wong shooting 13 in Binghamton, New ...

Rice Color, Skin Color and the New Cultural Color Code

In a whole-grain world Asian Americans are becoming the new ...

Uncovering the X Factors Behind Insomnia

We all know that coffee compromises sleep. Yet some of ...

The Asian-American and Music

I thought I would write a little bit about my ...

France Nuyen and Vietnamese Identity

Asian Las Vegas Pilgrimage

How many times have I vowed never to return to ...

California's Asian-Majority Generation

In about two dozen U.S. cities a generation of Asian ...

Seafood Soiree: A Night at The Boiling Crab

A restaurant that my people have been raving about the ...

American Clothes Make American Bodies

Some have blamed American fast food for the obesity epidemic. ...

End of the Pete Carroll Era

What else is there to say? Sportswriters are having a ...

Asian Gluttons Beware: L.A.'s Most Treacherous Food Street

There's no shortage of streets packed with great Asian food ...

The Italianization of Japan

There was a time when all things Japanese was money. ...

Ridiculous YouTube Video Draws Ire of Asian American Bloggers

The Barbarity Hidden in the 'The Cove'

I had the opportunity to catch the award-winning documentary up ...

Obama's Clarity Wins the Day — Again

Bad leadership panders to confusion and creates more. Good leadership ...

Vancouver Winter Games and the Speed-Skating Asians

Apolo Anton Ohno cut to the inside the final lap ...

Sleep, Insomnia and the Mysteries of Life

Sleep is life's great mystery, greater I think than love. ...