10 Reasons Why Identity Matters to Asian Americans

After years of sleep-deprivation, hobo chic and ramen dinners, you've ...

Asian American Life 36 Years Later

Obama, China and an Emerging New Reality

New UC Admission Policy Change May Be Good for Asian ...

Untying the Gordian Knot of North Korea

The China Dilemma

Women Without Men

Big American Misconceptions About Asians

We Asian Americans stand at the crossroads between west ...

Fellatio, Fong and Questions 27 and 28

Basketball Is Serious Business In China

What Those Chinese Tattoos Really Say

Last week, my good friend Jill – miss golden ...

Asian American Woman's Burden

By the age of ten I could picture my future ...

Thoughts for Sleepless Nights

They say all humans are genetically 99.95% identical. What? ...

Sacred Sexuality

Let's get real for a moment. I mean, just ...

Spotting Race Bores

Race bore" is a term commonly used to put down ...

My Favorite Part of Thanksgiving

I grew up in a primarily White neighborhood so I ...

Brotherly Advice for Asian American Women

Hey, Asian women, I love you. But I gotta tell ...

Asian American Man to Man

Confessions of a Happy Asian American

Some people bitch about being Asian in the U.S. of ...

Unsticking Japan

I am delighted that the LDP has lost power in ...

Dear Will Smith

At age 10, most girls had just graduated Barbie and ...

Asian Southerners

When my parents told me they were moving from our ...

Asian Students Under Assault

It's been a long time since I've been in the ...

The Brainy Bunch, Anyone?

Every generation has its family sitcoms. First it was “Leave ...

Asian Reality Stars Shine Bright

My friend Michelle, who currently resides in New York, recently ...

Revisiting My Childhood : A Weekender Back East

I'm sitting here in the basement of my childhood at ...

The U.S. Open and Asian Tennis Parents

Thanks to a nightmare rain delay and my preference for ...

Rising Asian American Stars

The highly-anticipated CW premier of “Melrose Place” aired last week, ...

The End of Cars As We Know Them

I'm not a car guy. I'm an appliance guy. I ...

Japan's Robot Strategy Offers Blueprint for Humanity

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

China Reaches Inflection Point Between Needy and Needed

It has been 31 years since Deng Xiaoping won acclaim ...

The Importance of Being Asian (Not Generic) American

Those of us who grew up in the America of ...

Eating, Sleeping and Alkalizing for pH Balance

"I don't know if I'm hungry or just tired." That's ...

Europe and Asia Flip-Flop in American Tastes

I recently tried a French restaurant housed in a charming ...

Evolving from Ching-Chong to Mandarin AP Classes

I don't have to remind anyone about those unfortunate kids ...

Asian Americans Key to Success in a Green World

BP's horrific Gulf Coast oil leak has created a once-a-generation ...

A World Without North Korea

Anyone who has seen images of the suffering in N. ...

The Irresistible Pull of a Decaying World

Anyone who has tried booking a Europe trip feels the ...

The Yen Shocks and a Brave New Yuan

Predictably the world applauded China's announcement that it is ending ...

Reflections After a Trip to Old Europe

One of the more vivid memories from my recent Europe ...

China Struggles to Emerge from U.S. Shadow

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

Interdependence Day: New Meaning for July 4th

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

2010 Elections: Inducing Mass Amnesia

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

Denying China's Economic Clout

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

Hypocrites, Grandstanders Pose As Tiger Tamers

No question that Tiger's recent life makes for some of ...

Why Jeremy Lin Matters So Much to Asian Americans

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

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

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

Asian American Men in a Colorblind World

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

Why Asian Americans Are Leading America's Cultural Evolution

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

How Japan Can Reverse Its Decline

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