In the wake of a mass shooting on Lunar New Year Eve, an essay about the multiethnic and multiracial histories … More
Tag: Public Writing
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
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
The Black Panther Party Headquarters and Other Invisible Places
August 13, 2012. Los Angeles Review of Books. “WHY SHOULD WE visit invisible places?” someone asked at a recent bookstore … More
Karen Tei Yamashita: A Twist on the Mix
Interview with novelist Karen Tei Yamashita, Loggernaut.org (September 2005). “I have heard Brazilian children say that whatever passes through the … More
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