Books & Entertainment

Asian American Visionaries

May 29, 2011

I won’t lie. I’m an evangelist for the globalization of Asian culture. And I’m not just referring to Hallyu in Thailand, or kimchi taco trucks multiplying in prolific numbers. I’m talking about seeing more Asian faces in the movies, the media, and magazines in America. Imagine, for a moment, a more equitable representation of humanity [...]

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An American in Beijing

May 15, 2011

BIG IN CHINA My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues, and Becoming a Star in Beijing By Alan Paul 272 pp. Harper Sitting here in New York, I can’t think of a city and a destination farther away than Beijing. Yet Beijing and China feel closer to Americans than ever before. From the [...]

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New (and Old) Korean Cinema | KAFFNY 2011

March 18, 2011

I have to admit — as I write this blog post, my heart’s a little broken. There’s been nothing short of a deluge of terrible news from Japan, a country to which I have both personal and cultural ties. Not many superlatives can begin to describe Japan’s contributions to the fields of art, entertainment, and, [...]

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Global Asianista’s Week in Review

November 28, 2010

@The New York Times has a very succinct summary of the work and life of Dr. Chalmers Johnson (1931-2010), the renowned Asia scholar and Korean War veteran, whose work on Japan, China and the United States is all too relevant today. @David Pilling of the Financial Times captures Dr. Johnson’s scholarly essence in a neat [...]

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Archie Panjabi wins an Emmy

August 31, 2010

Last night at the behest of a good friend, I watched the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, mainly because Archie Panjabi, who plays Kalinda Sharma on The Good Wife, was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Panjabi is a British Indian actress who has played supporting roles in several memorable movies, including [...]

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Ko So-young, Korea’s Angelina Jolie?

July 25, 2010

Some celebrity couples are just electrifying, and while Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie do much for magazine and newspaper copy stateside, when South Korea’s two biggest stars tied the knot in May of this year, the Korean media just could not get enough of this power couple. Ko So-young was one of Korea’s hottest leading [...]

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