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Another Asian American Actor’s Not-So-Hollywood Ending

by John Yau July 25, 2020December 14, 2020

To be Chinese in Hollywood meant that your name didn’t matter — no one in the audience would remember you or send you a fan letter.

Posted inFilm

What Hollywood Does to Asian Actors

by John Yau June 20, 2020December 14, 2020

Hollywood stereotypes define the Asian male as bowing, scraping, obsequious, devious, sneaky, dismal, and sexually frustrated.

Posted inFilm

How Asian American Representation in Film Has (and Hasn’t) Changed Over the Years

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel May 26, 2020May 26, 2020

My Sight is Lined with Visions presents films from the Asian American indie/arthouse wave of the ’90s. Hyperallergic talked to programmers Keisha Knight and Abby Sun about complicating ideas of cultural celebration.

Posted inArt

A Look at LA’s Chinatown, Past and Present

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino May 25, 2020May 22, 2020

Michelle Sui’s film Street Angel wanders through the streets of Chinatown, spotlighting the stories of elderly immigrant residents.

Posted inNews

Art Workers Mobilize to Combat Anti-Asian Racism

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia May 21, 2020May 22, 2020

StopDiscriminAsian and NYC’s Museum of Chinese in America are some of the arts organizations working to document and counter the rise of violence against Asians and Asian-Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Posted inFilm

The Timely Resonance of PBS’s Asian Americans

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel May 13, 2020

The new miniseries offers an informative overview of history through personal, often deeply emotional testimony.

Posted inFilm

The Specter of Concentration Camps Haunts The Terror: Infamy

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel August 9, 2019

The latest season of AMC’s supernatural history drama uses the harsh realities of Japanese American internment to weave its horrific tale.

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The Stories of Asian American Activism in 1970s LA

Avatar photo by Abe Ahn March 22, 2017March 21, 2017

The Chinese American Museum’s exhibition Roots uses books, posters, films, and music to examine the politicization of Asian Americans.

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Language Is Not Colorless: The Amazing Writing of Sawako Nakayasu

by John Yau April 26, 2015April 28, 2015

Since the beginning of this century a number of poets of Asian descent have published books that have helped redefine the field of study known as Asian American poetry, while challenging the various received definitions of what constitutes avant-garde or innovative writing.

Posted inPoetry

Marilyn Chin: Poet, Translator, Provocateur

by John Yau July 27, 2014July 30, 2014

A few weeks ago, on Centre Street–just north of Canal, the longtime boundary between Chinatown and the rest of Manhattan–I was on a panel, Re-imagining Asian American (and American) Poetry, at the Museum of Chinese in America (MoCA).

Posted inArt

Postscript to the Whitney Biennial: An Asian-American Perspective

by John Yau June 29, 2014December 31, 2014

Now that the Whitney Biennial is finally over, did anyone notice that Patty Chang, Nikki S. Lee, and Laurel Nakadate weren’t included, just to mention three mid-career, Asian-American women artists who were conspicuously absent?

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America’s Newest Creative Class: Asian Americans

by AX Mina September 17, 2013September 20, 2013

OAKLAND, Calif. — Asian Americans occupy 6.1 percent of creative jobs in this country, which is nearly half of the Asian-American population.

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Flowers on a River: The Art of Chinese Flower-and-Bird Painting, 1368–1911
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Flowers on a River: The Art of Chinese Flower-and-Bird Painting, 1368–1911

Over 100 masterworks by 59 artists spanning the Ming and Qing dynasties are on view at China Institute Gallery in New York.

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