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Recently Jeff Yang of the San Francisco Chronicle sent me an article he had just published in that newspaper. He wrote: I wanted to share with you guys the most recent installment of "Asian Pop"--which some of you may be aware now appears in both the online and the reconstituted wood pulp edition of the San Francisco Chronicle. The response to it has been quite interesting and, er, high-volume, from...
With the Beijing Olympics in full swing, Jeff Yang explores the fascination Asians have with obscure sports like table tennis and badminton. Like just about every other red-blooded American kid, I grew up with visions of sporting glory dancing in my head:...
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-By Warner Todd Huston Starting off with the often ridiculed 1998 hyperbole from writer Toni Morrison who decided that Bill Clinton was the nation’s first black president, “Asian Pop” writer,Jeff Yang of the San Francisco Chronicle, has decided that Barack Obama could be the first “Asian American president” if elected in November. Apparently Yang is unaware [...]
Starting off with the often ridiculed 1998 hyperbole from writer Toni Morrison who decided that Bill Clinton was the nation's first black president, "Asian Pop" writer, Jeff Yang of the San Francisco Chronicle , has decided that Barack Obama could be the first "Asian American president" if elected in November. Apparently Yang is unaware of how much ridicule has been heaped upon Morrison, and deservingly...
"White skin notwithstanding, this is our first black president. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime. After all, he displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-...
With the breakout success of ABC's "Wipeout" and "I Survived a Japanese Game Show," U.S. airwaves are about to be deluged with a veritable tsunami of Japanese-style game shows. No one would ever call the television staple commonly referred to as the...
I don’t keep up with all the east-asian pop artists - there just seems to be so many and I’m not that interested in their music. However, I do remember Japanese pop singer Namie Amuro who I first came across in Hong Kong, introduced to her music by a cousin, ten years ago! I was shocked [...]
Themes of death and the afterlife have been central to many recent Asian pop standouts, prompted by the success of the blockbuster anime/manga franchise "Death Note." Jeff Yang explores the context and meaning of this latter-day death jam. It's always...
The Bilz & Kashif, the group’s debut album broke barriers in the Canadian music industry with their smash international singles, 2 Step Bhangraand O Meri Rani that dominated radio waves all across Canada and internationally. The singles reached #4 on the Top 7@7 charts on Z103.5FM in Toronto for 3 weeks standing one notch above Beyonce and Justin Timberlake. They have performed with the likes of platinum...
TV News: Cable network changes programming slate -- Asian-American-targeted cabler IATV is blowing up its programming slate, repositioning itself as a destination for Asian pop culture.
I’m reading today’s Asian Pop piece, Opening the box, by SF Gate columnist Jeff Yang. Great article, but I found part of it somewhat disturbing. It’s not the writer, it’s this chick Susan D he quoted. “I think people overthink and overanalyze the nature of romance.” Okay, okay I agree. “I just think Asian [...]
Where race meets sex, angels fear to tread. Jeff Yang dives into Asian America's favorite taboo topic: interracial romance and the "gender divide." I remember when, the week before I left for college, my parents sat me down to tell me about the facts of life....
In a followup to last week's column "Ides of May," Jeff Yang talks to top Asian American YouTube stars about whether the next generation of Asian Americans will dominate the next generation of media. Their response: You betcha. Consider this: The highest-...
Asian pop culture mag Giant Robot has a fab regular feature called My Perfect Day, where a so-and-so (sometimes well known, sometimes not) gives a recounting of a recent smile-packed 24 hours. Here’s mine: 10:01 Wake up in the Upper West Side. Holy shit, is that clock right? Scramble for the shower, then the door. Gotta [...]
