Racism, Democratic Reforms and China's Reverse Brain Drain

The world has been clamoring for China to adopt democratic ...

How Hallyu-wood Is Challenging Hollywood

Hallyu is a term coined in 1999 by a Beijing ...

Identity, The Ultimate Luxury

Identity is the Asian American Rorschach inkblot test. Depending on ...

Vancouver Winter Games and the Speed-Skating Asians

Apolo Anton Ohno cut to the inside the final lap ...

The Asian-American and Music

I thought I would write a little bit about my ...

France Nuyen and Vietnamese Identity

Asian Las Vegas Pilgrimage

How many times have I vowed never to return to ...

California's Asian-Majority Generation

In about two dozen U.S. cities a generation of Asian ...

Seafood Soiree: A Night at The Boiling Crab

A restaurant that my people have been raving about the ...

American Clothes Make American Bodies

Some have blamed American fast food for the obesity epidemic. ...

End of the Pete Carroll Era

What else is there to say? Sportswriters are having a ...

Asian Gluttons Beware: L.A.'s Most Treacherous Food Street

There's no shortage of streets packed with great Asian food ...

The Italianization of Japan

There was a time when all things Japanese was money. ...

Ridiculous YouTube Video Draws Ire of Asian American Bloggers

The Barbarity Hidden in the 'The Cove'

I had the opportunity to catch the award-winning documentary up ...

Obama's Clarity Wins the Day — Again

Bad leadership panders to confusion and creates more. Good leadership ...

Sacred Sexuality

Let's get real for a moment. I mean, just ...

Sleep, Insomnia and the Mysteries of Life

Sleep is life's great mystery, greater I think than love. ...

The Elusive Logic of Sleep

Sound sleep, I suspect, is the ultimate goal of religion. ...

Uncovering the X Factors Behind Insomnia

We all know that coffee compromises sleep. Yet some of ...

Musings on an Uncomfortable Childhood

They say that 50% of your personality is genetic and ...

The Irrationality of Scapegoating China

In tough times politicians look for scapegoats. Recently they've zeroed ...

Obama's Biggest Challenge: Surviving Better Times

Barack Obama's presidency is a child of some of the ...

Insomnia and Missing Dreams

I caught a bad cold over the weekend and slept ...

Hypocrites, Grandstanders Pose As Tiger Tamers

No question that Tiger's recent life makes for some of ...

China Reaches Inflection Point Between Needy and Needed

It has been 31 years since Deng Xiaoping won acclaim ...

The Importance of Being Asian (Not Generic) American

Those of us who grew up in the America of ...

Eating, Sleeping and Alkalizing for pH Balance

"I don't know if I'm hungry or just tired." That's ...

Europe and Asia Flip-Flop in American Tastes

I recently tried a French restaurant housed in a charming ...