Asian American Woman's Burden

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What Those Chinese Tattoos Really Say

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Unsticking Japan

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Fellatio, Fong and Questions 27 and 28

Big American Misconceptions About Asians

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Women Without Men

The China Dilemma

Untying the Gordian Knot of North Korea

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Obama, China and an Emerging New Reality

Asian American Life 36 Years Later

The End of Cars As We Know Them

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Discarding Social Conditioning

You've recognized that becoming a secure Asian American isn't a ...

Becoming a Secure Asian American (Pts. 1 - 4)

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Sexualizing Homosexuality

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What the Global Power Shift Means for Asian Americans

We are witnessing one of history's great power shifts. I'm ...

The Lou Jing Ripple Effect

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Asian Men and Interracial Dating

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

Why I Love Los Angeles

I absolutely love Los Angeles. After traveling more than I ...

The Race Factor in Asian American Life

An Ohio football coach was convicted of setting fire to ...

The Italianization of Japan

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

Rising Asian American Stars

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The U.S. Open and Asian Tennis Parents

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

Revisiting My Childhood : A Weekender Back East

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

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

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Asian Southerners

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

Dear Will Smith

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Korean Mishaps, Obama Failure Among G20 Summit Ironies

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

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 ...

Finding Our Own Personal Independence Day

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

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 ...

A Mechanism to Break Federal Budget Deadlocks

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

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 ...

American Democracy and the Tyranny of Old Prejudices

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 ...

Going from Fat Superpower to Fit Superpower

Is there a future for a fat superpower in a ...

Third-Order Information Produces Modern Superstitions

The pervasiveness of speculative third-order information is creating a neurotic ...