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SFGate: Asian Pop
Jeff Yang looks back at eight years of "Asian Pop" and says farewell -- and thanks. So this is it, I guess: The final installment of "Asian Pop." After nearly eight years beneath the masthead, the Gatekeepers have decided that "the economics of our business...
SFGate: Asian Pop
The eye-popping success of the softcore porn film '3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy' at the Hong Kong box office lays bare the contradictions of Chinese sexual mores When James Cameron's "Avatar" arrived in Hong Kong, it seemed like a finishing move on the...
SFGate: Asian Pop
Jeff Yang talks to Ramin Ganeshram, author of the new young adult novel "Stir It Up," about food as a vehicle for memory, heritage and identity I've written before about how, to Asians and many other immigrant cultures, food is love. Parents who find it...
SFGate: Asian Pop
The satirist thinks Chinese people (and food) are repulsive, which makes former Sedaris-fan Jeff Yang sad Here's a question: How should you respond when one of your literary idols decides to take a huge metaphorical dump on the culture and civilization from...
SFGate: Asian Pop
A Fourth of July poolside encounter has Jeff Yang thinking about "Captain America" and the nature of patriotism Like all sane people who live in New York City, we've long since learned that the best way of celebrating Independence Day in New York City is to...
SFGate: Asian Pop
The last thing Asian parents want is for their kids to grow up to be cartoonists ... or journalists. Jeff Yang and a bunch of other guys who've wasted their fancy degrees discuss why their parents were probably right. With the fervor of a preacher at a tent...
SFGate: Asian Pop
Latinos and South Asians are the two fastest-growing populations in America. Is it time for a cultural rethinking of brown? America's social history has been so tightly wrapped around the two poles of black and white that it's easy to forget that without the...
SFGate: Asian Pop
"The Hangover Part II" is smashing box-office records, even as it reinforces ugly stereotypes about Asians. But complaining about the film is useless: It's time to construct an alternative. Last weekend, Asian Pacific Americans were ushered out of our...
SFGate: Asian Pop
William F. Wu's incredible comic book collection holds a mirror up to four decades of disturbing pop-culture images of Asian Americans. If you're a fan of comics -- and if not, why not? -- you know that the industry's single biggest cliche is the cosmos-...
SFGate: Asian Pop
Is Singaporean-born online dating mogul Brandon Wey's new dating site WhatsYourPrice.com open-source prostitution, or a new way of leveling the romantic playing field? If you wanna ride, just name your price Don't play cheap with your heart, don't make a bet...
SFGate: Asian Pop
In an exclusive interview with Ark Music Factory cofounder Clarence Jey, Jeff Yang explores why the viral sensation "Friday" could portend a radical shift in the music business It's only been two months since Rebecca Black's Prozac-blank expression and eerily...