Romantic comedies and young adult series aren’t really my bag. My romances usually come with zombies and I’m not that involved in YA/NA at all. But sometimes you just have to put down your...
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...
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,...
I was in graduate school before I acknowledged something was wrong. The worries, the quirks, the little obsessive tendencies that I could previously ignore or just chalk up to my being “eccentric...
Full disclosure: I didn’t see A Christmas Story Live! It’s never been one of my favorite holiday movies (I know…sacrilege!), and even though I saw all the hype around performing it live with a...
To many people hearing the term, "model minority" sounds like a good thing. Why wouldn't you want to be the "model", the "best", the example that inspires others? If you are in the majority, it can...
Before Star Trek: Discovery premiered, Michelle Yeoh’s accent received some attention. Soon after the release of a trailer, people started talking about the fact that Yeoh, a Chinese-Malaysian...
There’s no way around it: Donald Trump’s “Great America” is a “White America”. This is nothing new (for Trump or frankly, US history). But with Trump’s ban on immigrants from largely...