Asian Reality Stars Shine Bright

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

The Brainy Bunch, Anyone?

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

Asian Students Under Assault

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

Asian Southerners

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

Dear Will Smith

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

Unsticking Japan

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

Confessions of a Happy Asian American

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

Mao's Last Dancer Satisfies Asian American Audiences

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

Identity, The Ultimate Luxury

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

How Hallyu-wood Is Challenging Hollywood

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

Racism, Democratic Reforms and China's Reverse Brain Drain

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

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 ...

American Democracy and the Tyranny of Old Prejudices

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 ...

Why Asian Americans Are Leading America's Cultural Evolution

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

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 ...

Finding Our Own Personal Independence Day

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

Threat from America's Economic Fundamentalists

Today's biggest threat to our collective futures comes from our ...

Asian Killers, American Causes

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

Asia Emerges As the New West for Ambitious Americans

At long last the American mind is ready to see ...

A Mechanism to Break Federal Budget Deadlocks

The current debt-ceiling deadlock cries out for a mechanism to ...

Rice Color, Skin Color and the New Cultural Color Code

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

China's Rising Testosterone Level and Its New Voice

The world will have to get used to hearing China's ...

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

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

Exploiting the Short Memories of American Voters

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

Denying China's Economic Clout

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

Tragedy of the Fanatical Preference for Sons

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

Putting Aymmetric Warfare Back on Our Side

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

Asian American Near-Thanksgiving List

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

Little Emperor Syndrome and China's Me Generation

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

Korean Mishaps, Obama Failure Among G20 Summit Ironies

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

Asian American Consumer Clout Over Premium Brands

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

A New World Order and the New Asian Face

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

Ridiculous YouTube Video Draws Ire of Asian American Bloggers

The Irrationality of Scapegoating China

In tough times politicians look for scapegoats. Recently they've zeroed ...

Musings on an Uncomfortable Childhood

They say that 50% of your personality is genetic and ...

Uncovering the X Factors Behind Insomnia

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

The Elusive Logic of Sleep

Sound sleep, I suspect, is the ultimate goal of religion. ...

Sleep, Insomnia and the Mysteries of Life

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

Vancouver Winter Games and the Speed-Skating Asians

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

Obama's Clarity Wins the Day — Again

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

The Barbarity Hidden in the 'The Cove'

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