“It’s easy to call a translation flawed, but if we think of all writing as an author’s interpretation of the story conceived in their imagination, are words ever sufficient to express such sensations in the first place? Perhaps the problem of translation is more than an issue of which words we use. That language will never be enough is simply universal.
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FAR—NEAR
Vol. 5: DIVERGENCE (2024)
Article: “Not As Sweet by Any Other Name”
ONLINE
Article (2023): “Cycles of Joy – Walasse Ting’s Joie de Vivre Returns ‘Home’”
Interview (2022): “Artist Hong Hong Records Places, Moments, and Personal History Through Papermaking”
ANTI-RACISM NEWSLETTER “DECOLONIZING FAR AND NEAR NO.6” (2020)
Article: “Unmasking the Mass Media: A Mini Media Literacy Guide in a Misinformation Milieu”
Anti-racism Newsletter “Decolonizing Far and near No.4” (2020)
Article: “Colonization, Commodification, and the Rise of Yoga™”
Interview with Chiraag Bhakta: “On Institutional Racism in the Arts: A conversation with Chiraag Bhakta”
Vol. 3: Devotion (2020)
Artwork by Camily Tsai for “The Pushed and The Pulled”
Interview with Alex Huanfa Cheng: “Chinese Wonderland”
Interview with Ren Dara Santiago: “Something in the Balete Tree”
Vol. 2: Taste and Distaste (2019)
Interview with Takashi Homma: “Mushrooms from the Forest”
Interview with Hitoshi Fugo: “Hitoshi Fugo’s Cosmic Kitchenware”
Article: “김치とキムチの間” “Between Two Kimchis” (in English)
Vol. 1: On Movement (2018)
Article: “The Pushed and The Pulled”
Intro to the films of Shirin Neshat: “Resistance”
COLUMBIA NEWS
APRIL 8, 2024
“Freeing the Girl From Napalm”
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
“The Weatherhead East Asian Institute Turns 75”
OCTOBER 13, 2022
“How a Columbia Historian Fact-Checked a Film About the Vietnam War”
MAY 25, 2022
“Teaching Asian American History Through the Lens of Chinese Food”
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
“Journalist Rong Xiaoqing Discusses Shifting Chinese Diasporic Identities”
OCTOBER 15, 2021
“Vietnamese President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc Gifts Inscribed 15-Volume History of Vietnam to Columbia”
APRIL 13, 2021
“Wango Weng's Films Get the Attention They Deserve at Columbia”
APRIL 15, 2020
Interview: “A Historian’s Look at China’s Early Entrepreneurism”
“ In the Asian diasporic communities of the U.S., Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans are often joined by Southeast Asians and become Asian Americans together. It’s an odd silver lining of our othering: We are told that we are the same, and find unity and community through sharing that arbitrary label.
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Nikkei Asian Review
Selected articles from digital and print:
September 26, 2018
“Trump criticizes China trade and rejects globalism at UN”
AUGUST 16, 2018
“Asian-Americans splinter the 'bamboo ceiling'“
February 17, 2018
“New York's changing Chinatown honors its roots on Lunar New Year”
December 23, 2017
“UN Security Council clamps down on North Korea with new sanctions”
December 13, 2017
“UN official urges accountability for Rohingya ‘ethnic cleansing’”
July 8, 2017
“UN adopts treaty for outlawing nuclear weapons”
June 13, 2017
“A global push to make seafood sustainable again”
May 2, 2017
“To celebrate World Tuna Day, eat anything else”
March 30, 2017
“Dreamers: The realities of life as an undocumented immigrant” (co-author)