Posts by Lily
Lily Huang is a writer of Taiwanese descent, who lives on the East coast. She grew up in suburbia completely oblivious to Asian culture, and is making up for it now.
Guo-Qiang and Murakami in New York
If you are in the New York area, there are two modern art shows not to be missed. Cai Guo-Qiang’s retrospective I Want to Believe is at the Guggenheim through May 28, and Takashi Murakami’s © Murakami is at the Brooklyn Museum through July 13. At Guo-Qiang’s show, there are tigers with arrows in them and a canal that you can row through on a boat. Guo-Qiang works with explosives, and there is a video [...] Continue »
Word of the Day: Satyagraha
“Satyagraha” is a Sanskrit word meaning “truth force.” Mahatma Gandhi coined the word to describe his philosophy of nonviolent resistance. Although he also used terms such as passive resistance and nonviolence, he created the word “satyagraha” to more accurately embody the spirit of his ideas. “Satya” means truth, and “agraha” means “to grasp or hold.” Compounded, “Satyagraha” conveys the meaning of “grasping or holding onto the truth.” He believed that rather than attempt to defeat [...] Continue »
Step Up 2 the Streets
You should only see dance movies for the dancing. But I think it’s also worthwhile to pay attention to who’s being cast where, as far as Asian, black, white, Latino go. Who gets which role, who is good, who is evil, who’s cool, who’s the loser, who’s the center of attention. Who are you supposed to be most interested in, who are you supposed to care the most about? Especially since this film happens to [...] Continue »
Secret Asian 007: the guy who loves her
Secret Asian 007 is an autobiographical video by filmmaker Christine Choe about her secret three-year relationship with a black man. It’s apparently not a secret to the internet, of course. Just her Korean parents. (If you can tell the internet anything, does that mean the internet is everyone’s best friend?) If I were a health teacher I’d show this to my class. It does a great job of just posing a problem without imposing any [...] Continue »
Quiz! Who’s on Social Networks?
This research article, Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites, reports on a research study by Eszter Hargittai in Communication Studies and Sociology at Northwestern University. It finds connections between use of social network sites and a person’s gender, race and ethnicity, and parental educational background. One difference between this research and previous studies, which allowed them to reveal these patterns, is that it disaggregated users by site. Instead of lumping [...] Continue »
Chanel Iman, New Kid on the Catwalk
Don’t ask me what I was doing* looking at Teen Vogue, but I noticed the cover girl of the current issue, Chanel Iman. Her mother is Korean American and African American, and her father is African American. She hit the ground running when she started out in 2006, landing modeling walks for, if I remember correctly, eighteen designers in one trip. The New York Times profiled her that fall, and Vogue included her in their [...] Continue »
Chinese and Americans See Things Differently
I refer to this article all the time, so even though it’s a few years old, I thought I’d post it. It says that East Asian culture puts more emphasis on context- and therefore a person of this culture is more likely look around and consider the environment. In the research study, experimenters had people look at photographs of single focal objects against complex backgrounds- such as a fighter jet flying over a mountainous landscape [...] Continue »
Kartika Review supports Asian American literature
Kartika Review is a new literary journal for Asian American creative writing. They publish fiction, poetry, essay, art, and author interviews. Of interest in the first issue: An interview with Gene Luen Yang delivers the inside scoop on the author and his graphic novel American Born Chinese. “Burying Bones,” a poem by Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai laments the strains of adapting to cultures. Kim Hoang Nguyen’s “Final Bouquet,” is a chick lit story with some witty [...] Continue »
Holiday Wonders
As someone who does support things because they are Asian, I almost bought my parents tickets to Holiday Wonders. The show, which plays in New York and also goes on tour, is a pastiche of dance and song and reminds me of things I was subjected to on Loveboat. I think I need some time to get used to it. Although it’s now in its fifth year, it’s only the second that I’ve heard of [...] Continue »
Quang Bao leaves the Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Quang Bao, executive director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, is leaving the organization. The Workshop is a national not-for-profit arts organization devoted to the creating, publishing, developing and disseminating of creative writing by Asian Americans. Members of the workshop include not only writers but also supporters of writers and the Asian American community. Bao joined the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in 1999 as managing director, and became the executive director in 2000. Over the [...] Continue »
Azn Television Creates Space for Community on their Website
AZN Television, the network for Asian Americans, launched a new community forum on their website called Outspoken. Clicking the links on the front page gets you to the AZN TV blog where two poets and two intern journalists post weekly. Beau Sia, a Chinese American poet, and Ishle Yi Park, former Poet Laureate of Queens, New York, are the poet bloggers. Lena Wong and Emma Carew are the student interns. AZN television will select new [...] Continue »
Asians and Alcohol: Why the Yellow get Red
Asians are known for getting red when they drink. Known as Asian blush, Asian glow, or hahaha you’re all flushed, there is no scientific name for this condition. However it does have a scientific basis. There are two major enzymes in the metabolism of alcohol: alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH). In many Asians (50% of Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans!), the gene for ALDH has a mutation of a single base that results in [...] Continue »
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