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SFGate: Asian Pop
This year, my wife and I gave our big-boy-first-grader son Hudson the right to pick his own afterschool activities, and, not surprisingly, he chose the one most likely to result in domestic mayhem: Tae kwon do. In a more disciplined soul, martial arts might...
SFGate: Asian Pop
The notion that Asians and Jews are two shoots from the same cultural rootstock is an old but evergreen meme. You see it in fringe theories about the Lost Tribes of Israel -- there's an entire body of cryptoarchaeological canon that uses similarities between...
SFGate: Asian Pop
(As Lunar New Year approaches, Jeff Yang contemplates the nostalgic connections between food and memory.) My six-year-old son Hudson's first-grade class is studying bread, which means the whole family, by proxy, is in on the lesson. His school's teaching...
SFGate: Asian Pop
As Palo Alto's Jeremy Lin leads his Harvard hoops squad toward victory, an Atlanta promoter launches an all-white basketball league, leading Jeff Yang to ponder the light and dark side of rooting for the race. It was an announcement carefully designed to...
SFGate: Asian Pop
LAS VEGAS -- There are two annual events that anchor the geek calendar. For the fanboys, you have San Diego Comic Con, the grand gathering that transforms America's Finest City into a fabulous four-day freakshow of collectors, cosplayers and self-styled...
SFGate: Asian Pop
(The general rottenness of the past 12 months puts Jeff Yang in a poetic mood). 'Tis the day before New Year's, a date that reminds us Of all that we saw in the year that's behind us So to give an assessment that just can't be ducked Two-thousand-and-nine?...
SFGate: Asian Pop
I'm the proud dad to two sons, so I only know about this whole princess thing secondhand. But my younger sister Christine has a three-year-old daughter, Sienna. And whenever we're over for dinner, Sienna goes through more outfits than a Chinese bride on her...
SFGate: Asian Pop
At the start of his just-completed tour of Asia, President Barack Obama gave a packed crowd at Suntory Hall in Tokyo a taste of his signature oratorical skill, delivering a speech intended to set the tone for his eight-day journey across the continent. It was...
SFGate: Asian Pop
For the geekerati, it was a Pentagon Papers moment. Last week, the anonymous "total transparency" site Wikileaks unveiled a new cache of classified documents -- memos revealing the top-secret terms of a proposed international treaty, the Anti-Counterfeiting...
SFGate: Asian Pop
For fans of the 1984 Pat Morita and Ralph Macchio blockbuster "The Karate Kid," the spy photos that leaked out of China last month were like a crane-kick to the heart. The half-dozen blurry pics, snapped from the forest surrounding Hubei Province's Wu Tang...
SFGate: Asian Pop
My mother-in-law never asks for anything. She's a model of thrift and self-sacrifice -- about 0.4 on the Arc scale (where 1.0 is full Joan), which makes any request from her something that immediately commands my full attention. "Next time you go shopping,...
