It happened again, another looted piece of Chinese art that was stolen by the British and French troops from the Summer Palace in Beijing went to auction and was sold for 1.68 million Euros. This time, the piece of art is a jade imperial seal with two dragons carved in the top. The winning bidder was Chinese, but claimed to be representing a French buyer.
The art piece itself came from a descendant of a French general who was at the Summer Palace. The Chinese government also protested this sale, as they did the auction of the zodiac bronze animal heads from the Summer Palace, which 8asians covered in an earlier blog post.
The Chinese government also failed to stop this auction. While this auction doesn’t feature as highly visible art pieces as the animal heads, it does put another thorn in French – Chinese relations.
While some pieces of stolen and looted art are finding their way home, such as the recent news about a painting stolen during the Holocaust being returned to surviving family, there’s still a lot of work to be done to set things right.
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Unless you have been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of Bernie Madoff, the investment management firm owner who was convicted of operating a $50 billion Ponzi scheme that has been called the largest investor fraud ever committed by a single person.
But you may not have heard of Danny Pang, a smaller-scale, Asian American version of Bernie Madoff as reported in mid-April in the Wall Street Journal who was being investigated and — for a while — couldn’t be found:
“Mr. Pang’s résumé depicts a glittering success story: a Taiwanese immigrant who earned an M.B.A., worked on Wall Street and now heads a $4 billion investment fund … But both Mr. Pang’s past and his business may not be quite as they appear. The university from which he says he has an M.B.A. and another degree says it has no record of either. Morgan Stanley, where Mr. Pang’s bio says he was a senior vice president and senior high-tech merger adviser, says it can find no record it ever employed him… A former president of the firm Mr. Pang heads — Private Equity Management Group Inc. in Irvine, Calif. — says Mr. Pang told him in 2007 that part of the enterprise involved a Ponzi scheme. The executive also alleges that Mr. Pang improperly used some of investors’ cash for the firm’s benefit and once told him to deceive investors with a fake insurance policy. And at a venture-capital firm where Mr. Pang worked earlier, the CEO says he fired Mr. Pang for stealing $3 million from an escrow account in June 1997.”
Since then, Danny Pang has been found and arrested by the FBI, and this past week, was released on a $1 million bond and confined to his Newport Beach home with electronic monitoring. I think that this qualifies Pang as a disgrasian. See, Asian Americans really can be anything; police officer chief’s, Ivy League university presidents or disgraced financiers!
(Image Source: Associated Press)
Shopping With GASP!
I’ve seen my share of web series (though I’ve avoided popular shows like The Guild because, I don’t know, I can’t be too hip, right?) and unless they’ve got some huge name or company attached, they’ve mostly consisted of bad acting, and low quality production. But the multitude of online shows have always featured super awesome creativity, and I love to watch how aspiring writers, directors and producers have taken their careers into their own hands by putting their original works up on the Internet. If anyone denies that this new genre of story-telling lacks value, then they’re looking in the wrong direction.
So meet Lumina, an upcoming web series from Jennifer Thym who seems to combine super awesome creativity with some super awesome sets, actors and production value in a super awesome Hong Kong. The trailer is a bit unclear as to what exactly the show is about (whoa, there’s a guy in a mirror?), but their website summarizes the premise nicely:
Lumina Wong is beautiful but works far too much; although she lives in a city of millions, she still feels lonely and isolated. Late one night, Lumina has a chance encounter with Ryder Lee, a handsome young man from another world that she can see in mirrors and darkened window reflections. She revels in the fantasy relationship until mirrorspy Eben Sanchez comes into her life, warning her of the treacheries of the people of the Dark Realm. Soon Lumina must choose between the safety of the world she knows and the deadly allure of the unknown.
Is this a thrilling new Asian horror story or a dark fantasy? Maybe both? This ain’t no Memoirs of an Online Geisha, people! I don’t know anything about cinematography, but the trailer featured some pretty crazy shots…and some hot actors. Woot!
The series premieres this summer and stars Juju Chan and Michael Chan.
The HOT DOCS International Documentary Film Festival kicks off in Toronto this coming Thursday, April 30th and runs till May 10th. I’ve always loved watching documentaries because of the diversity of perspective and opinions on topic ranging from trivial to the provocative and controversial. This year, they shine a spotlight on documentaries made from South Korean documentary filmmakers in a programme called Made In South Korea, so check those out if you get a chance.
This is Part 2 of 3. Part 1 can be found here: Click
YES MEN FIX THE WORLD
– Dir. Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno – FRANCE, UK USA
Outrageous political pranksters, Andy and Mike want to fix the world – a noble yet seemingly impossible task in YES MEN FIX THE WORLD. It’s no surprise the world is built on the foundation of capitalism and greed that skirts from the corporate responsibility of human life. The documentary starts with the 20th anniversary of the world’s most disastrous chemical accident that cost the livelihoods of the people of Bhopal, India. In an elaborate scheme we follow their journey of holding corporate greed responsible for their actions. Funny, entertaining and insightfully filled with hope.
CAT LADIES – Dir. Christie Callan-Jones – Canada
Following the lives for 4 women from varying backgrounds, the documentary tries to breakdown the motivations for their penchant for acquiring cats in CAT LADIES. What started off in an off-beat quirky atmosphere slowly deteriorates as they expose the loss and loneliness mixed with the feeling of unconditional love from their feline companions. It’s also rather heartbreaking to see the ones those who want to break their cycle and those who are delusional in thinking they’re doing the right thing.
WATERLIFE – Dir: Kevin McMahon – Canada
Explore the beauty of the Great Lakes matched with industries toxicity in WATERLIFE. Stories around the shores and ports of the Great Lakes tell us that the water is disappearing. It’s quite unsettling to watch that many little comforts of home are at a cost to water consumption. Not exactly an eye-opener but a good look at what progress has cost nature over time.
SOULWAX: PART OF THE WEEKEND NEVER DIES –
Dir: Soam Farahmand – UK
Go on tour for a year with Soulwax as they play a show all over the world that last for about 8 hours starting the electro-punk band Soulwax and ending with its own afterparty spun by 2 Many Djs. For fans of electro dance punk, this is a MUST watch.
BASTION OF SIN – Dir: Thomas Lauterbach – Germany
A theatre director crafts a play from the personal stories of amateur actresses of Turkish descent in BASTION OF SIN. The story focuses on Aymel, a head scarf wearing Muslim woman who has agreed to take part in the director’s project. Her inner conflict with tradition and faith crash against her fellow actor’s free spiritedness. It’s interesting to watch Aymel as she has to come to terms … and ultimately respect and tolerate other’s views, perspectives and values.
And now a word about about their Late Night Screenings where you can catch the screening of SOULWAX.
Adopting a Chinese baby is nothing new these days in the United States. In fact, adopting a Chinese baby is fairly commonplace and has made it into mainstream popular culture, like Charlotte in Sex and the City adopting a Chinese baby named Lily. But according to Time, the trend is declining, and not because of Americans growing fear of China:
“While the Chinese government does not release domestic adoption figures, U.S.-based adoption agencies say more Chinese children are being adopted in China. “You have this cultural shift along with the economic shift, where more and more people cannot only afford to adopt a child, but culturally it’s more accepted,” says Cory Barron, foundation director at Children’s Hope International. Historically, adoption was neither socially acceptable nor a viable economic option for many families in China. But orphanages were getting crowded, prompting the government to open up to international adoptions in 1992 … A slow shift in gender perception may also be playing a role. While girls still make up 95% of children at orphanages, Zhong says that, too, has shifted. “People’s attitude toward having girls is changing dramatically,” Zhong says. “I have friends [in China] who have girls, and they are just so excited.”
I think it’s terrific that the Chinese public is more open to adoption and to adopting girls and not just boys. I’ve thought a little bit about the long-term implications of adopted Chinese baby girls growing up in the United States, which I imagine would be raised mostly by white families.
But the trend would also exacerbate the perennial question — and very popular 8Asians posting — on Why Asian Girls Go for White Guys and Stuff White People Like. I mean, if you are an ethnically Chinese woman raised in a white family from when you were a baby, I imagine that the likelihood she would be more likely to date and marry a white man compared to a Chinese American girl raised in a Chinese American family. And there is nothing wrong with that, except that it would just continue to fuel one of the most popular debates amongst the Asian American community regarding the imbalance of interracial dating between Asian American women versus men. But I digress.
The Time article goes on to detail that since more Chinese are adopting babies, China has instituted stricter requirements for foreign adoptive parents, since the adopting agencies can be a little bit more picky now with foreigners now that the Chinese are more open to adoption.
(Image source: someecards.com.)
UPDATE: We have a winner!
As April is coming to an end, we head on into May — nationally designated as Asian Pacific Islander (API) Heritage Month. API Heritage month commemorates and recognizes the diversity of API languages and cultures and celebrates of the achievements and contributions of API communities in America.
In that spirit, 8Asians is happy to celebrate Asian Americans in the arts with an “Asian American Arts Stimulus Package” giveaway to one lucky winner who will be the recipient of a pair of tickets to THREE amazing events in the L.A. area!
1) The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival: 2009
Runs April 30 – May 7, 2009
Visual Communications, the nation’s premier Asian Pacifc American media arts center, established the Los Angeles Asian Pacifc Film & Video Festival in 1983 as a vehicle to promote Asian and Asian Pacifc American cinema. The Festival has grown from its humble beginnings as a weekend-long series into a major annual showcase presenting the best of Asian Pacifc American and Asian international media in the United States. As of 2008, the Film Festival is known by its permanent iteration The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
2) Lodestone Theatre Ensemble: Ten to Life
Runs May 2 – June 7, 2009 (8:00PM Fri-Sat; 2:00PM Sun)
A Census agent exposes a family’s perverse, hidden secret…A desperate loser turns to experimental surgery to seduce his high school crush…A happy homemaker struggles against an ancient evil that lurks in plain sight…A controlling psychologist must protect his life’s love from her memories. Lodestone kicks off its final season with four twisted one-acts touching on the bizarre and unnatural. It’s been ten years… Time to pay.
3) East West Players: Marry Me A Little & The Last Five Years, an evening of 2 one-act musicals!
Runs May 7 – June 7, 2009 (Wednesday – Saturday @ 8PM; Sunday @ 2PM)
MARRY ME A LITTLE: A compilation of songs, composed by Stephen Sondheim for many of his Broadway musicals but for various reasons didn’t make it into the final stage, are woven into a simple tale of two lonely people during one evening in their small, one-bedroom apartments. Featuring Mike Dalager & Jennifer Hubilla
THE LAST FIVE YEARS: There are two sides to every story…Jamie and Cathy’s 5-year old relationship is coming to an end, and through the funny , sweet and heart-breaking songs, you hear both versions of what happened–from beginning to end, and from the end to beginning. Featuring Michael K. Lee & Jennifer Paz
That’s right! The lucky winner wins a pair of tickets to ALL THREE events!
How do you enter?
Simply leave a short comment stating which one of these events interest you most and why. (Be sure to use the email address you’d like to be contacted at if you’re the winner.)
Hurry, the deadline to enter is: Friday, May 1 at 12 noon
One lucky winner will be randomly selected and contacted on Friday afternoon.
Rules for entering:
1) Please be in the Los Angeles area (or willing to travel to LA on your own dime) and serious about using all these tickets; if you’re too busy to use these, please don’t take them away from someone who will!
2) Tickets are non-transferrable; they are good for you and a guest.
3) Contributors to 8Asians and their immediate family members are not eligible to win.
Prizes courtesy of: Visual Communications, Lodestone Theatre Ensemble, and East West Players. Thanks to all the orgs which are providing free tickets to 8Asians readers, and especially Phil Chung for his help with this.
One of the hotly anticipated films of last year to release in South Korea was Frozen Flower starring Joo Jin Mo, Jo In Sung and Song Ji Hyo is now soon to making its way to DVD.
I had been interested in the film since I caught wind of it in the Kpop bubble where I had been living for the last 2 years or so. The story seemed interesting, the King (Joo Jin Mo) needs to bear an heir, but despite loving his beautiful Chinese Queen (Song Ji Hyo) can’t bear to touch her and chooses to spend his night with the head of guards (Jo In Sung) instead. To keep things secret, the King instructs his lover to sleep with the Queen thereby opening Pandora’s box to hetero sex and your classic love triangle.
Who am I kidding – the trailer above is what really caught people’s attention. (Safe, yet NSFW)
My fellow Kpop follower Nebs pinged me saying that she was going to be seeing the film, but was just going to fast forward to the good parts … namely the sex scenes. So I followed up, after the jump.
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The HOT DOCS International Documentary Film Festival kicks off in Toronto this coming Thursday, April 30th and runs till May 10th. I’ve always loved watching documentaries because of the diversity of perspective and opinions on topic ranging from trivial to the provocative and controversial. This year, they shine a spotlight on documentaries made from South Korean documentary filmmakers in a programme called Made In South Korea, so check those out if you get a chance.
This is Part 1 of 3 of the films you can catch and which I’ve previewed for you in 88 words of less:
ACTION BOYS – Dir. Jung Byung-Gil – South Korea
Graduates from the 8th year of Seoul Action School are profiled in Action Boys, a documentary about stunt performers in South Korea’s movie industry. While quirky and fun, the doc is counter-balanced by the realities and ultimate limitations of what the body and spirit can handle. Many leave in the first few months of training, only a few stick around. It could’ve been a more interesting documentary but the lack of narrative structure felt like I was on a rig being pulled along for a ride.
GRANDMOTHER’S FLOWERS – Dr. Mun Jeong-hyun – South Korea
Told through the hardships endured by his maternal grandmother, Director Mun uncovers and touches upon many social issues faced by the complexities of Korean culture and ideology in Grandmother’s Flower. Tensions still remain from alliances forged during the Korean War and provide the basis of discrimination and Guilt By Association to those who stayed and those who fled during the war to Japan. It’s very tapestry-like storytelling where many different lives are interwoven by the choices they make and the ultimate consequences they suffer.
CLUBLAND – Dir. ERIC GERINGAS – Canada
Tensions between the residents and the clubbing industry’s movers and shakers set the mood in Clubland. It’s an interesting look at the densely concentrated neighbourhood where politics has to strike the balance in pleasing their constituents while also maintaining the economic powers it has. In a ‘Tipping Point’ fashion, we understand better the stories coming from both sides and slowly realize the fault of tension doesn’t really fall onto the residents or club owners, but perhaps the party-goers who’ve had one too many drinks.
HAIR INDIA – Dir. Raffaele Brunetti, Marco Leopardi – Italy
An ambitious documentary in the structure of a feature, Hair India weaves the stories of the players in the lucrative business of Indian hair extensions. From rich to poor, religious hair donors to the fashionable consumer, the documentary is very tapestry like in an attempt to link all stories into one without having much of an objective. Despite its compelling characters and high production value, it was boring.
AFGHAN STAR – Dir. Havana Marking – UK
After years of Taliban rule that banned music and dancing, Tolo TV puts on their version of Idol singing competition called Afghan Star. Its producers are interested in creating art, entertainment and culture, while the contestants vie for the title for Afghan Star and $5,000 – over 10 times the average annual salary. Continuing tribal conflicts plus ideals still rooted in religion create obstacles for the production staff and contestants. It was a fascinating look into a culture where art and music were once a vibrant part of the culture now cling to every bit of freedom they get to express themselves despite the consequence.
If you’ve ever been to China, you’ve had the opportunity to buy knockoff counterfeit goods: Rolex watches, Gucci handbags or Nike sneakers, as well as pirated software, CD’s and DVD’s. Well, the Times now reports that the proliferation of counterfeit or copycat phones, known as “shanzhai” (black market), are all the rage in China now, making up to 20% of the cellphone market in China:
“All this innovation comes from an industry that only took off in 2005, after Mediatek, a semiconductor design firm from Taiwan, helped significantly reduce the cost and complexity of producing a mobile phone. Using what experts call a turnkey solution, Mediatek developed a circuit board that could inexpensively integrate the functions of multiple chips, offering start-ups a platform to produce a low-cost mobile phone… Marketing strategies were simple: steal. Designs and brand names were copied identically or simply mimicked. (Sumsung for Samsung or Nckia for Nokia.)”
There are plenty of Chinese suppliers able to sell all the basic components for a cell phone, so the barriers to entry for assembling and selling a knock-off is plenty easy. It’s the natural evolution of counterfeiting or copycatting as China moves up market; I wonder when we’re going to see knockoff Jaguar’s, Porsche’s, Boeing’s and Airbus’s?
I don’t see any of this changing in China in the near future. I know Taiwan was often cited as a haven for counterfeits and knockoffs, and remember even buying a “New York Bulls” t-shirt once for the fun of it. But with Taiwan becoming a more “advanced” R&D and manufacturing society, as well as increased crackdowns by the government, Taiwan has cleaned up its act. China has only made token efforts to clean up and enforce Intellectual Property (IP) rights, a constant issue with Western companies and governments. The next time I’m in China, I’d be curious to take a look at some of these knockoff phones, including the Hi-Phone.
Image: Meizu M8 mobile phone – copycat of the Apple iPhone. Image source: The New York Times.
Let me out myself right now that despite my cool demeanor and hip clothes, I was once (and still kind of am) a huge fantasy/science fiction reader. If any novel had a cool illustration involving a dragon, crystals and medieval clothes, I would instantly pick it up and engross myself in an alternate universe that involved magical incantations, saving a king and lots of white people brandishing swords. Yeah, that was one thing that always bugged me about popular fantasy novels: why was it so white washed? Was magic and imagination limited to the medieval, European world?
Fortunately for the younger generation, writer Cindy Pon tackles the genre with her first novel, Silver Phoenix, which is set to be released by HarperTeens tomorrow, April 28th in bookstores everywhere. The novel follows Ai Ling, a young woman who leaves her home to find her missing father, only to learn that she is on a path to fulfill her destiny from the gods.
If you couldn’t tell by the book cover, Pon’s story takes place in the Kingdom of Xia, an Asian-centric world where legends, clothing, and traditions would feel more familiar than exotic to the Asian American reader. I know I’m a little old for the novel’s demographic, but I thoroughly enjoyed Pon’s first foray into the young adult fantasy genre. She creates a sound “universe” that drew from her background in Chinese brush painting and research into traditional Chinese architecture, art and poetry–as well as her love of food. Let’s be honest; Ai Ling’s travels around Xia made my tummy grumble more than once. Who wants to get dim sum with me this weekend?
More interestingly was Pon’s inclusion of race in Silver Phoenix with her other main character, a half-Xian boy named Chen who often found himself at odds due to his biracial background. Pon included Chen to play around with the notion of a hapa boy dealing with being an outsider in Xia, an experience that most non-white characters would find themselves in the prototypical fantasy plot. It’s not hard to point out that fantasy authors either ignore these situations (since they usually take place in an alternate world) or thoroughly categorize any sort of outsider as evil or bad, creating a vacuum in the genre on how these stories can reflect complicated issues about race and culture (unless you’re Ursula Le Guin). Pon, on the other hand, seems to have embraced this idea of different races and resulting conflicts, further turning the Caucasian dominated fantasy worlds upside down.
I don’t want to give away too much of Silver Phoenix‘s plotline, but I would eagerly recommend the novel for fantasy fans, whether they are parents or young readers themselves looking for a unique alternative to Harry Potter or Twilight. Especially Twilight. Anything but that horrible book. PLEASE.
Usually, when 8Asians blogs about American Idol it’s usually a stroke of death: Paul Kim, heralded as the anti-William Hung, gets quickly ushered out over a terrible cover of Careless Whisper. Ramiele Malubay was okay but fizzled out in the middle of the series. And then there was Sanjaya.
So this year’s recently eliminated, token Asian American contestant comes in the form of Anoop Desai, a graduate of the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the UNC Clef Hangers, another A Capella group. (And, thankfully, a lot better than a certain other A Capella group from Yale.) While he was chastised early on for “looking like an engineer,” His voice carried him as a wildcard pick to become one of the Final 13 contestants, and his love of 1990′s R&B his apparent, covering Bobby Brown’s My Prerogative and Monica’s Angel of Mine. But his uneven performances eliminated him from this year’s competition in a double-elimination along with the other minority contest, the awesomely-named Lil Rounds. While we attached a video from one of his better performances — a cover of Always On My Mind — this may not be the last you hear from him; he’s chosen to leave grad school to pursue a music career full time. Hopefully then, maybe people will stop calling him the totally inappropriate nickname “Slumdog Idol.”
(Video and hat tip courtesy of: Rickey.org)
Recently John posted about Raymond Zheng, a precocious 14 year old college freshman. Although I know nothing about Raymond beyond the video that John sent out, I’d like to use him as a starting point to explore a topic that I find fascinating: education philosophy, or in plainer terms, how to raise your kid.
Now, I should start by disclosing that I do not have any children of my own, as I’m 24 and spend my weekends drinking aggressively with my friends. That said, I feel that I’ve experienced enough of life to have a rough idea of what skills and values lead to success, which means that I have an opinion on how to educate a child to instill those things.
I disagree with what I will term as the ‘Raymond Zheng’ approach to education for two reasons: first, it seems to poorly provide for the types of interpersonal skills that are critical for success. Schools are about more than transferring academic knowledge; they are communities where people bond, form relationships, and go through the process of maturing into adulthood together. This program misses that by thrusting these kids into impersonal lecture halls with students who they can’t possibly relate to in any meaningful way. It’s telling that when the reporter asked Raymond to explain his computer program, Raymond gave the wrong answer. Not wrong in a technical sense, but wrong in that it failed to take into account the reporter’s level of understanding of the subject and was thus useless. It lacked a level of human understanding that you can’t learn by taking more advanced classes but which comes naturally to anyone who has spent time meeting people and making friends.
Similarly, the girl who dismissed going to prom completely missed the point; yes, she can still go with her friends (although I question how close she can remain with her friends given that she won’t see them in school anymore and is going through a completely different set of experiences as they are). But prom is a communal ritual, and she is no longer part of that community. It is a step towards adulthood — it’s no accident that so many high schoolers choose to lose their virginity at prom — that has a certain collective emotional resonance that she will likely miss out on.
Kids who grow up going through the normal education system are getting a lot more out of it than just an academic education. By being constantly surrounded with other people who are their same age and going through the same maturation process as them, and going through communal school events like prom, they are developing the ability to interact with other human beings. This is critical to success, not only because most careers involve a high amount of collaborative work, but more importantly because being a content, well adjust human being requires forming good relationships with other people. When I said earlier that I have a rough idea of what skills lead to life success, one of the things I meant is that I have never met a single person who is happy but does not have a lot of friends.
The Raymond Zheng approach also emphasizes the knowledge acquisition over creativity, when in most real life settings (at least the settings a high powered achiever like Ray is likely to get involved in) the latter is far more important. Creativity is a nebulous subject, but everything I’ve witnessed, read about, or experienced first hand suggests that it starts with play (there is an excellent book on improvisational acting called Impro that goes into this subject in more depth.) Watching Raymond, you don’t get the sense that he plays very much, which makes me wonder how he’ll do once he’s gotten through all the academic knowledge that he’s learning and moves on to the real goal of adding to knowledge and creating something new.
Raymond seems like a nice kid, and for all I know I might have the specifics of his story wrong. But I do want to call attention to and indict a way of thinking that is prevalent within Asian and Asian American communities — the exclusive emphasis on academic performance creates real problems and prevents children from growing up into successful, well adjusted human beings.
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