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SFGate: Asian Pop
Jeff Yang talks about Asian transnational adoption with documentarists Stephanie Wang-Breal ("Wo Ai Ni Mommy") and Deann Borshay Liem ("In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee") We live in a municipally zoned hipster enclave where the average household is more likely...
SFGate: Asian Pop
As right-wing pols call for the elimination of birthright citizenship, the commemoration of Angel Island's 100th anniversary reminds us what's at stake for Asian Americans -- and the nation as a whole On the foggy Saturday morning of July 31, more than a...
SFGate: Asian Pop
Jeff Yang heads to Vancouver, the most Asian city in continental North America -- just ahead of San Francisco -- to compare and contrast Asian Canadian and Asian American identity VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- What do these notable Asian Americans have in...
SFGate: Asian Pop
(In writer Greg Pak's latest comic book series, god -- one of them, anyway -- is dead, and a Korean American teen must take his place.) Gods are hard to kill. They may lose believers, fade from worship, slide into apocrypha, but a well-made set lasts through...
SFGate: Asian Pop
There's a certain basket of phrases used to describe those individuals whose life's work leads to the launch, not of mere products or brands, but entire industries and worldviews. They're "passionate," "perfectionist," "controversial"; they're "willing to...
SFGate: Asian Pop
At the World Expo in Shanghai, Jeff Yang reads author Belle Yang's new graphic novel, "Forget Sorrow," and considers China's desire to edit its past as it writes its future SHANGHAI -- There's an old saying in China that "optimism is the surest way to forget...
SFGate: Asian Pop
Daniel Dae Kim can't get the island thing out of his system. After six groundbreaking years as a castaway on "Lost," he's now poised to join CBS's fresh take on the classic cop-show Hawaii Five-O." The end of a TV series, even a great one, used to be cause...
SFGate: Asian Pop
Jeff Yang watches and reads Glenn Beck, and becomes afraid. Very afraid. Never heard of the term "Overton Window"? Well, you're not alone. Up until this week, use of the term has largely been limited to the airy stratosphere of hardcore policy-wonks....
SFGate: Asian Pop
Jeff Yang asks some of his favorite bloggers for their take on this summer's Asian pop blockbusters, beginning with Jackie and Jaden's big adventure, "The Karate Kid" Summer's in full swelter, and here in scenic Brooklyn, New York, it's hot enough to melt...
SFGate: Asian Pop
Jeff Yang talks with Academy Award nominee Ken Watanabe about his complicated role in this summer's most complicated blockbuster, "Inception," and reflects on the fine line between hero and villain Last year, while Parry Shen, Jerry Ma, Keith Chow and I were...
SFGate: Asian Pop
How a little Hawaiian instrument is infiltrating pop culture, reshaping the digital landscape -- and changing the world, one smile at a time It looks like a guitar that someone accidentally washed at the wrong setting, and in untrained hands, sounds like a...