My research this year at the Huntington was profiled, along with fellow Long-Term Fellows Scott Doebler, Sandy Rodriguez, Catherine Ceniza … More
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“Lost in the Typhoon” Nominated for Krause Essay Prize
“Lost in the Typhoon” by Wendy Cheng, a creative nonfiction essay published in Brink Issue No. 4, was one of … More
What Mourning Looks Like in Monterey Park
In the wake of a mass shooting on Lunar New Year Eve, an essay about the multiethnic and multiracial histories … More
The Bold and Unruly Legacy of Chen Wen-Chen
July 2, 2021 Article published in New Bloom Magazine IT WAS THE summer of 1975. The two young Taiwanese men, Rocky … More
The Global, Imperial, and Capitalist Roots of ‘Anti-Asian Hate’
Published June 2021 in episteme issue 6: in the wake of the atlanta shooting: non/citizen perspectives on anti-asian racism and … More
In Rancho Santa Fe, We Were Orientals
June 10, 2021. Creative nonfiction essay published in Boom California. In 1986, when I was nine and my brother was … More
The Instant You Entered the Black Hole
June 2021 Creative nonfiction essay published in The Cincinnati Review Teh-chang came home a couple of days after the surgery, … More
Of Abject Fathers and Angry Mothers: Chia-Chia Lin’s The Unpassing
March 2020. Published at tropicsofmeta.com. Chia-Chia Lin’s The Unpassing (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2019) is the most Taiwanese American book I’ve ever … More
East of East: The global cosmopolitans of suburban LA
Spring 2015. Article published in Boom: A Journal of California. While Los Angeles’s San Gabriel Valley is best known for … More
A Brief History (and Geography) of the San Gabriel Valley
August 4, 2014. Article published by kcet.org. The SGV is not only east of East L.A. — and a notable … More
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