Identity, The Ultimate Luxury
Identity is the Asian American Rorschach inkblot test. Depending on your character and personality, it conjures up a different association.
Perspectives
How Hallyu-wood Is Challenging Hollywood
Hallyu is a term coined in 1999 by a Beijing journalist to describe the craze for Korean goods. It has since become synonymous with the ...
Racism, Democratic Reforms and China's Reverse Brain Drain
The world has been clamoring for China to adopt democratic reforms. That wish will likely come true within a decade due to competitive pressures
Grading Hawaii Five-O
If there is an Asian American home on American network TV these days, it has to be CBS's Hawaii Five-O. It's set in the nation's ...
North Korea, the Ultimate Reality Show
North Korea looms larger in humanity's consciousness than all but a handful of major nations. Why? It's the ultimate reality show and we are gripped
The Dangers of Scape- goating China's Yuan
Leaders of distressed economies like to direct rhetoric at a scapegoat. The ideal scapegoat has little or no political clout and is an easy target
Rutgers's Shameful Asian American Duo
Tyler Clementi jumped from the George Washington Bridge after his Rutgers University roommate hid a webcam in their dorm room to broadcast
Reflections on Summer in Lake Tahoe
When I was going to school Lake Tahoe was synonymous with skiing by day and poker by night. Even then the slopes and casinos were ...
Mao's Last Dancer Satisfies Asian American Audiences
The movie version of Mao's Last Dancer deserves our admiration and support. The film has everything we Asian Americans
Recognizing China As America's Growth Engine
Americans are fretting about a 9.5% jobless rate that isn't budging, a half-trillion dollar trade deficit that isn't narrowing and a million houses
How Japan Can Reverse Its Decline
Today the Nikkei 225 index closed at 9,161.68. The same index, widely used to track the state of Japan's stock market, ended 1989 at 38,915.90.
Why Asian Americans Are Leading America's Cultural Evolution
An Wang, Amar Bose, Charles Wang, David Ho, Jerry Yang, Steven Chu and many tens of thousands of other scientists and technologists
Asian American Men in a Colorblind World
Living in a supposedly colorblind world can be hard on Asian American men because we have to be the kid who has to tell the ...
End of U.S. Consumer Hegemony A Boon for Asian Americans
Economists have taken as an article of faith that U.S. consumers drive global growth.
Why Jeremy Lin Matters So Much to Asian Americans
That a guy who can shoot, sky and scrap like Jeremy Lin had to go through the back door to finagle a measly $250,000 a ...
Japan's Robot Strategy Offers Blueprint for Humanity
Japan's population growth rate peaked at about 2% back in 1969 and has been falling steadily ever since. It hit an ominous -0.0523% in 2008.
Denying China's Economic Clout
As recently as the end of last year most business commentators on Bloomberg and CNBC were breezily brushing aside any suggestion that China's
2010 Elections: Inducing Mass Amnesia
When you are young you tend to see a world of possibilities and little of its realities. You tend to believe that those favored by ...
Interdependence Day: New Meaning for July 4th
Few Americans watching and setting off July 4th fireworks were thinking about the origin of this activity in 12th-century China or even the probable physical
China Struggles to Emerge from U.S. Shadow
In early June China rejected a proposed visit by Defense Secretary Robert Gates. On July 1 it announced that a Gates visit would be welcomed ...
Reflections After a Trip to Old Europe
One of the more vivid memories from my recent Europe trip is being startled by a small pack of drunk young Americans rushing out of ...
The Yen Shocks and a Brave New Yuan
Predictably the world applauded China's announcement that it is ending its currency's 2-year peg to the dollar even as China insisted that a stronger yuan
The Irresistible Pull of a Decaying World
Anyone who has tried booking a Europe trip feels the continent's decline in the most practical sense — things literally don't seem sustainable.
A World Without North Korea
Anyone who has seen images of the suffering in N. Korea brought on by a regime that puts self-preservation above the welfare of its people ...
Asian Americans Key to Success in a Green World
BP's horrific Gulf Coast oil leak has created a once-a-generation opportunity. If we can use it as a slap in the face with a cold ...
Evolving from Ching-Chong to Mandarin AP Classes
I don't have to remind anyone about those unfortunate kids who spout mock Chinese gibberish as a way to display their racist ignorance. The irony, ...
Europe and Asia Flip-Flop in American Tastes
I recently tried a French restaurant housed in a charming cottage on Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks. The service was impeccable, the food
Eating, Sleeping and Alkalizing for pH Balance
"I don't know if I'm hungry or just tired." That's a refrain most of us have heard coming out of our own mouths. It's a ...
The Importance of Being Asian (Not Generic) American
Those of us who grew up in the America of the 60s, 70s or 80s know what it's like to be ambivalent about one's ethnicity. ...
China Reaches Inflection Point Between Needy and Needed
It has been 31 years since Deng Xiaoping won acclaim as history's greatest pragmatist by declaring, "It does not matter if the cat is red ...
Hypocrites, Grandstanders Pose As Tiger Tamers
No question that Tiger's recent life makes for some of the best entertainment on the crowded media market today. It's all the more fun
Insomnia and Missing Dreams
I caught a bad cold over the weekend and slept over seven hours last night. For me an illness is a blessing because it gives ...
Obama's Biggest Challenge: Surviving Better Times
Barack Obama's presidency is a child of some of the hardest years most of us have known. Whether it can flourish now that hard times ...
The Irrationality of Scapegoating China
In tough times politicians look for scapegoats. Recently they've zeroed in on China, as they've done so often in the past. They rant that our ...
Musings on an Uncomfortable Childhood
They say that 50% of your personality is genetic and the other 50% a product of your environment in your more formative years. I often ...
Uncovering the X Factors Behind Insomnia
We all know that coffee compromises sleep. Yet some of my best nights of sleep came after binging on coffee. The protein in a meat-heavy ...
The Elusive Logic of Sleep
Sound sleep, I suspect, is the ultimate goal of religion. Who knows spiritual suffering better than an insomniac? Whether you call it hell or purgatory
Sleep, Insomnia and the Mysteries of Life
Sleep is life's great mystery, greater I think than love. We have good working hypotheses on love and its functions. But we still can't fathom ...
Vancouver Winter Games and the Speed-Skating Asians
Apolo Anton Ohno cut to the inside the final lap of the short-track 1500m speed skating final, trying to force the hand of the three ...
Obama's Clarity Wins the Day — Again
Bad leadership panders to confusion and creates more. Good leadership clears up the confusion to win support for good leadership. Barack Obama's presidency represents a ...
The Barbarity Hidden in the 'The Cove'
I had the opportunity to catch the award-winning documentary up for an Oscar this year The Cove, directed by Louie Psihoyos and written by Mark ...
The Italianization of Japan
There was a time when all things Japanese was money. Rodeo and Fifth-Avenue shopkeepers drooled over Japanese tourists carrying wads of cheap dollars for anything ...
Asian Gluttons Beware: L.A.'s Most Treacherous Food Street
There's no shortage of streets packed with great Asian food in Southern California. But for me Pioneer Boulevard between Artesia and South Street
End of the Pete Carroll Era
What else is there to say? Sportswriters are having a field day with USC, USC coaching changes
American Clothes Make American Bodies
Some have blamed American fast food for the obesity epidemic. I blame American clothes.
Seafood Soiree: A Night at The Boiling Crab
A restaurant that my people have been raving about the last couple of years has been The Boiling Crab.
California's Asian-Majority Generation
In about two dozen U.S. cities a generation of Asian Americans is reaching adulthood with scant knowledge of what it's like being a racial minority.
Asian Las Vegas Pilgrimage
How many times have I vowed never to return to Las Vegas? This time I managed to keep the vow for two years.
Identity, The Ultimate Luxury
Identity is the Asian American Rorschach inkblot test. Depending on your character and personality, it conjures up a different association.
How Hallyu-wood Is Challenging Hollywood
Hallyu is a term coined in 1999 by a Beijing journalist to describe the craze for Korean goods. It has since become synonymous with the ...
Racism, Democratic Reforms and China's Reverse Brain Drain
The world has been clamoring for China to adopt democratic reforms. That wish will likely come true within a decade due to competitive pressures
Grading Hawaii Five-O
If there is an Asian American home on American network TV these days, it has to be CBS's Hawaii Five-O. It's set in the nation's ...
North Korea, the Ultimate Reality Show
North Korea looms larger in humanity's consciousness than all but a handful of major nations. Why? It's the ultimate reality show and we are gripped
The Dangers of Scape- goating China's Yuan
Leaders of distressed economies like to direct rhetoric at a scapegoat. The ideal scapegoat has little or no political clout and is an easy target
Rutgers's Shameful Asian American Duo
Tyler Clementi jumped from the George Washington Bridge after his Rutgers University roommate hid a webcam in their dorm room to broadcast
Reflections on Summer in Lake Tahoe
When I was going to school Lake Tahoe was synonymous with skiing by day and poker by night. Even then the slopes and casinos were ...
Mao's Last Dancer Satisfies Asian American Audiences
The movie version of Mao's Last Dancer deserves our admiration and support. The film has everything we Asian Americans
Recognizing China As America's Growth Engine
Americans are fretting about a 9.5% jobless rate that isn't budging, a half-trillion dollar trade deficit that isn't narrowing and a million houses
How Japan Can Reverse Its Decline
Today the Nikkei 225 index closed at 9,161.68. The same index, widely used to track the state of Japan's stock market, ended 1989 at 38,915.90.
Why Asian Americans Are Leading America's Cultural Evolution
An Wang, Amar Bose, Charles Wang, David Ho, Jerry Yang, Steven Chu and many tens of thousands of other scientists and technologists
Asian American Men in a Colorblind World
Living in a supposedly colorblind world can be hard on Asian American men because we have to be the kid who has to tell the ...
End of U.S. Consumer Hegemony A Boon for Asian Americans
Economists have taken as an article of faith that U.S. consumers drive global growth.
Why Jeremy Lin Matters So Much to Asian Americans
That a guy who can shoot, sky and scrap like Jeremy Lin had to go through the back door to finagle a measly $250,000 a ...
Japan's Robot Strategy Offers Blueprint for Humanity
Japan's population growth rate peaked at about 2% back in 1969 and has been falling steadily ever since. It hit an ominous -0.0523% in 2008.
Denying China's Economic Clout
As recently as the end of last year most business commentators on Bloomberg and CNBC were breezily brushing aside any suggestion that China's
2010 Elections: Inducing Mass Amnesia
When you are young you tend to see a world of possibilities and little of its realities. You tend to believe that those favored by ...
Interdependence Day: New Meaning for July 4th
Few Americans watching and setting off July 4th fireworks were thinking about the origin of this activity in 12th-century China or even the probable physical
China Struggles to Emerge from U.S. Shadow
In early June China rejected a proposed visit by Defense Secretary Robert Gates. On July 1 it announced that a Gates visit would be welcomed ...
Reflections After a Trip to Old Europe
One of the more vivid memories from my recent Europe trip is being startled by a small pack of drunk young Americans rushing out of ...
The Yen Shocks and a Brave New Yuan
Predictably the world applauded China's announcement that it is ending its currency's 2-year peg to the dollar even as China insisted that a stronger yuan
The Irresistible Pull of a Decaying World
Anyone who has tried booking a Europe trip feels the continent's decline in the most practical sense — things literally don't seem sustainable.
A World Without North Korea
Anyone who has seen images of the suffering in N. Korea brought on by a regime that puts self-preservation above the welfare of its people ...
Asian Americans Key to Success in a Green World
BP's horrific Gulf Coast oil leak has created a once-a-generation opportunity. If we can use it as a slap in the face with a cold ...
Evolving from Ching-Chong to Mandarin AP Classes
I don't have to remind anyone about those unfortunate kids who spout mock Chinese gibberish as a way to display their racist ignorance. The irony, ...
Europe and Asia Flip-Flop in American Tastes
I recently tried a French restaurant housed in a charming cottage on Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks. The service was impeccable, the food
Eating, Sleeping and Alkalizing for pH Balance
"I don't know if I'm hungry or just tired." That's a refrain most of us have heard coming out of our own mouths. It's a ...
The Importance of Being Asian (Not Generic) American
Those of us who grew up in the America of the 60s, 70s or 80s know what it's like to be ambivalent about one's ethnicity. ...
China Reaches Inflection Point Between Needy and Needed
It has been 31 years since Deng Xiaoping won acclaim as history's greatest pragmatist by declaring, "It does not matter if the cat is red ...
Hypocrites, Grandstanders Pose As Tiger Tamers
No question that Tiger's recent life makes for some of the best entertainment on the crowded media market today. It's all the more fun
Insomnia and Missing Dreams
I caught a bad cold over the weekend and slept over seven hours last night. For me an illness is a blessing because it gives ...
Obama's Biggest Challenge: Surviving Better Times
Barack Obama's presidency is a child of some of the hardest years most of us have known. Whether it can flourish now that hard times ...
The Irrationality of Scapegoating China
In tough times politicians look for scapegoats. Recently they've zeroed in on China, as they've done so often in the past. They rant that our ...
Musings on an Uncomfortable Childhood
They say that 50% of your personality is genetic and the other 50% a product of your environment in your more formative years. I often ...
Uncovering the X Factors Behind Insomnia
We all know that coffee compromises sleep. Yet some of my best nights of sleep came after binging on coffee. The protein in a meat-heavy ...
The Elusive Logic of Sleep
Sound sleep, I suspect, is the ultimate goal of religion. Who knows spiritual suffering better than an insomniac? Whether you call it hell or purgatory
Sleep, Insomnia and the Mysteries of Life
Sleep is life's great mystery, greater I think than love. We have good working hypotheses on love and its functions. But we still can't fathom ...
Vancouver Winter Games and the Speed-Skating Asians
Apolo Anton Ohno cut to the inside the final lap of the short-track 1500m speed skating final, trying to force the hand of the three ...
Obama's Clarity Wins the Day — Again
Bad leadership panders to confusion and creates more. Good leadership clears up the confusion to win support for good leadership. Barack Obama's presidency represents a ...
The Barbarity Hidden in the 'The Cove'
I had the opportunity to catch the award-winning documentary up for an Oscar this year The Cove, directed by Louie Psihoyos and written by Mark ...
The Italianization of Japan
There was a time when all things Japanese was money. Rodeo and Fifth-Avenue shopkeepers drooled over Japanese tourists carrying wads of cheap dollars for anything ...
Asian Gluttons Beware: L.A.'s Most Treacherous Food Street
There's no shortage of streets packed with great Asian food in Southern California. But for me Pioneer Boulevard between Artesia and South Street
End of the Pete Carroll Era
What else is there to say? Sportswriters are having a field day with USC, USC coaching changes
American Clothes Make American Bodies
Some have blamed American fast food for the obesity epidemic. I blame American clothes.
Seafood Soiree: A Night at The Boiling Crab
A restaurant that my people have been raving about the last couple of years has been The Boiling Crab.
California's Asian-Majority Generation
In about two dozen U.S. cities a generation of Asian Americans is reaching adulthood with scant knowledge of what it's like being a racial minority.
Asian Las Vegas Pilgrimage
How many times have I vowed never to return to Las Vegas? This time I managed to keep the vow for two years.
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