A Chinese-American writer living in New York, Louise is a contributor and researcher for the Order of the Good Death and Ask a Mortician. You can find her on Twitter @LouiseHung1.
In honor of Crazy Rich Asians, which drops next week, we're bringing back a Louise Hung classic. I want to be excited about the film adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s book, Crazy Rich Asians. I want to...
As a teenager growing up Texas, so much of my youth was spent trying to fit in. While this is something that most former teenagers can relate to, I was also a Chinese American teenager in a...
I was recently approached to work on a script. At first I was pretty excited about it. It was the brainchild of someone I’d worked with before, someone I liked and had worked well with on previous...
“What is that?” My friend asked me this when she saw the little “altar” I’d set up in the corner of my living room. I say “altar” because it’s not really an altar. Calling it such...
Kalpana Chawla was born into a culture that didn’t necessarily share the big plans she had for herself. Born in Karnal, India in 1961, the youngest of four, a future as wife and mother was expected...
Filipino-Americans have often been called the “invisible minority”. Despite being the second largest Asian-American community in America – and the first Asians to come to America in 1587 –...
Once upon a time, mukashi mukashi, there lived a beautiful woman in Yotsuya named Oiwa. A ronin (a masterless samurai) named Iemon wanted to marry Oiwa, but her father knew of Iemon’s misdeeds and...
During the Chinese Exclusion era, Chinese men were often called “John” and women called “Mary”. In the time when America outlawed the immigration of Chinese laborers, between 1882 and 1943,...
As a Chinese kid growing up in America, Chinese New Year meant three things: lots of dining with family members whose names I couldn’t remember, “Kung hei fat choi!” proclaimed at every turn,...
When I was not even 10 years old, I remember standing in front of my cousins’ bathroom mirror comparing eyelids. Kara*, my oldest cousin, had just learned about “Asian eyes**” from her...
