Category Archives: Family

Asian American Medical Hazard: Somatic Symptom Disorder

Posted on January 31, 2019 by Jeff

When she was 14, Diana Chao began experiencing severe pain in her eyes.  The pressure buildup in her eyes was diagnosed as uveitis, an inflammatory eye disease that caused her to go temporarily blind.  For the next four years, she … Continue reading →

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8Questions with Barney Cheng, Director of “Baby Steps”

Posted on January 16, 2019 by Tim

Back in September 2018, I did a review of a movie Baby Steps on 8Asians. The movie was written, directed and starred Barney Cheng. I was still so intrigued with the movie, that I got in contact with Barney and asked him … Continue reading →

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WBUR: Shirley Wang: ‘My Dad’s Friendship With Charles Barkley’

Posted on December 19, 2018 by John

Image courtesy of Shirley Wang, vis-a-vis WBUR. If you haven’t listened (download the MP3 here) to or read this story, ‘My Dad’s Friendship With Charles Barkley,’ you must – it’s such a heart warming story and made me cry, about a … Continue reading →

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“Baby Steps” Review: A film about two gay dads, surrogacy and a tiger mom

Posted on September 5, 2018 by Tim

“Baby Steps” is a film released in 2015, written, directed and staring Barney Cheng.  He plays the lead character, Danny Lee, a Taiwanese-American living in Los Angeles with a Caucasian boyfriend, Tate.  They’ve decided to have a child, through surrogacy, … Continue reading →

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Wong Fu Productions First Season of Yappie (Young Asian Professional)

Posted on July 27, 2018 by John

I first learned about Wong Fu’s ‘Yappie’ scripted web series on this NBC Asian America article about Wong Fu Productions & Yappie: “With more than 3 million subscribers on YouTube now, and 500 million-plus views, Wong Fu Productions — created … Continue reading →

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Some People Just Don’t get Pixar’s Bao

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Jeff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZayYWpkUkzs I wrote a review about how I really liked the Pixar Short Bao that appears with The Incredibles 2, but apparently not everyone one likes as much as I did or even gets it.  A number of articles (some … Continue reading →

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Filipino Kinship Terms and their Confusing Translation into English

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Jeff

Number One Son has a “nephew” who is also a college student in Boston. When I mentioned this to my brother, he couldn’t understand how Number One Son could be the “uncle” of someone who is the same age and … Continue reading →

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A Short Review: Bao

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Jeff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZayYWpkUkzs Accompanying the Pixar movie The Incredibles 2 is a short called Bao.  It starts, as you can see from the trailer above, when a woman who has just cooked some bao is shocked when one of them comes to … Continue reading →

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8Books Review: “Bury What We Cannot Take” by Kirstin Chen

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Lily

Bury What We Cannot Take, the latest novel from author Kirstin Chen set in Mao’s China, is a doozy. After 12-year-old Ah Liam reports his grandmother to the Communist Party, the family must flee their little island off the mainland. … Continue reading →

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8Books Review: Secrets We Kept by Krystal Sital

Posted on March 6, 2018 by Lily

Krystal Sital’s debut memoir, Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad, is an intimate and powerful memoir about three generations of her family — their stories, their traumas, their secrets, and their relationship to the author’s grandfather. Eloquently written and deeply personal, … Continue reading →

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Comparing Chinese Death Beliefs with Disney/Pixar’s ‘Coco’

Posted on December 7, 2017 by Tim

During opening weekend, I took my daughter to see the new Disney/Pixar movie, Coco.  It’s a movie she’s been looking forward to seeing for almost a year, since the trailers for the new movie came out quite some time ago.  I … Continue reading →

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8Books Review: “Pashmina” by Nidhi Chanani

Posted on November 14, 2017 by Lily

Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani is a delightful graphic novel about a young girl looking for herself, navigating two worlds and two cultures. Priyanka is your average Indian American teenager until she finds a magic pashmina in her mother’s closet. Her … Continue reading →

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