Musings on an Uncomfortable Childhood

They say that 50% of your personality is genetic and the other 50% a product of your environment in your more formative years. I often ...

Uncovering the X Factors Behind Insomnia

We all know that coffee compromises sleep. Yet some of my best nights of sleep came after binging on coffee. The protein in a meat-heavy ...

The Elusive Logic of Sleep

Sound sleep, I suspect, is the ultimate goal of religion. Who knows spiritual suffering better than an insomniac? Whether you call it hell or purgatory

Mao's Last Dancer Satisfies Asian American Audiences

The movie version of Mao's Last Dancer deserves our admiration and support. The film has everything we Asian Americans

American Democracy and the Tyranny of Old Prejudices

Identity, The Ultimate Luxury

Identity is the Asian American Rorschach inkblot test. Depending on your character and personality, it conjures up a different association.

How Hallyu-wood Is Challenging Hollywood

Hallyu is a term coined in 1999 by a Beijing journalist to describe the craze for Korean goods. It has since become synonymous with the ...

Racism, Democratic Reforms and China's Reverse Brain Drain

The world has been clamoring for China to adopt democratic reforms. That wish will likely come true within a decade due to competitive pressures

Grading Hawaii Five-O

If there is an Asian American home on American network TV these days, it has to be CBS's Hawaii Five-O. It's set in the nation's ...

North Korea, the Ultimate Reality Show

North Korea looms larger in humanity's consciousness than all but a handful of major nations. Why? It's the ultimate reality show and we are gripped

The Dangers of Scape- goating China's Yuan

Leaders of distressed economies like to direct rhetoric at a scapegoat. The ideal scapegoat has little or no political clout and is an easy target

Rutgers's Shameful Asian American Duo

Tyler Clementi jumped from the George Washington Bridge after his Rutgers University roommate hid a webcam in their dorm room to broadcast

Reflections on Summer in Lake Tahoe

When I was going to school Lake Tahoe was synonymous with skiing by day and poker by night. Even then the slopes and casinos were ...

Recognizing China As America's Growth Engine

Americans are fretting about a 9.5% jobless rate that isn't budging, a half-trillion dollar trade deficit that isn't narrowing and a million houses

How Japan Can Reverse Its Decline

Today the Nikkei 225 index closed at 9,161.68. The same index, widely used to track the state of Japan's stock market, ended 1989 at 38,915.90.

Why Asian Americans Are Leading America's Cultural Evolution

An Wang, Amar Bose, Charles Wang, David Ho, Jerry Yang, Steven Chu and many tens of thousands of other scientists and technologists

Asian American Men in a Colorblind World

Living in a supposedly colorblind world can be hard on Asian American men because we have to be the kid who has to tell the ...

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

Economists have taken as an article of faith that U.S. consumers drive global growth.

Why Jeremy Lin Matters So Much to Asian Americans

That a guy who can shoot, sky and scrap like Jeremy Lin had to go through the back door to finagle a measly $250,000 a ...

Japan's Robot Strategy Offers Blueprint for Humanity

Japan's population growth rate peaked at about 2% back in 1969 and has been falling steadily ever since. It hit an ominous -0.0523% in 2008.

Denying China's Economic Clout

As recently as the end of last year most business commentators on Bloomberg and CNBC were breezily brushing aside any suggestion that China's