I was very happy to learn that a class of students at San Francisco State University were reading my book, Hapa Girl, this semester. English Department instructor Sheryl Fairchild invited me to her class this week to meet with her students and discuss the book. The students had prepared great questions and observations about Hapa [...]
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Chinese New Year: Time for the World’s Largest Annual Human Migration
Posted in Asian Film, China, Chinese New Yaer, Chinese New Year, family, movies, photos, Spring Festival, video, tagged Chinese migrant workers, Chinese New Year, Largest annual human migration, Last Train Home, Spring Festival, Year of the Rabbit on February 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Around the world, Chinese in the Diaspora and in China are spending the start of the Lunar New Year (February 3, 2011) by celebrating the arrival of the Year of the Rabbit! Families gather to eat hearty meals, give red envelopes with lucky money inside to children and unmarried young people, and set off firecrackers [...]
Music and Writing
Posted in Asian American Literature, Asian Pacific American, Book Club Guide, Dragon Chica, essays, family, Interviews, music, Questions from readers, Saving Sourdi, Writing Process, tagged Beach Boys, Cambodia, Cambodian Americans, Dolly Parton, Dragon Chica, In the Mood for Love, Jolene, Khmer Rouge, Khmer Rouge regime, Large Hearted Boy, Medeia Sharif, music playlist for writing, Run DMC, Saving Sourdi, Serge Gainsbourg, SharifWrites, www.largeheartedboy.com on October 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Much thanks to www.LargeHeartedBoy.com, the amazing music and book blog, for featuring my new novel! Here’s my essay on the musical playlist (w/ links to the actual music) that I imagined the characters would listen to and that inspired me as I was writing Dragon Chica! Book Notes – May-lee Chai (“Dragon Chica”) In the [...]
Shanghai: Art & Laara Ong
Posted in Art, Asian Film, Asian Pacific American, China, Chinese women, family, movies, photos, pictures, Shanghai, tagged Chinese contemporary art, Laara Ong, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Shanghai on August 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Had a great time this weekend at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum’s special art exhibit “Shanghai” with Vancouver-based playwright and actress Laara Ong. SF Asian Art Museum Laara is writing a play about Shanghai in the 1930s and 40s for a Vancouver theater company, so this exhibit also served as research for ideas on [...]
Art in the Time of Revolution
Posted in Art, Asian American Art, Asian Film, Asian Pacific American, China, family, movies, photos, pictures, U.S.-China relations, tagged artist, China 20th century, Chinese history, Cultural Revolution, hapa, love story, mixed race, ROAM Data, Victor Kai Wang, William Wang Graylin on June 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I had the pleasure of meeting William Wang Graylin, filmmaker and entrepreneur, while he was visiting San Francisco this week. Will produced and co-directed an independent documentary about his father, the painter Victor Kai Wang, called THEMES AND VARIATIONS. Will has a fascinating family history, which he also explores in the movie. His parents seemed [...]
