Wylie Wong
A tale of love between boys and coming of age in rural Malaysia
Tash Aw’s most recent novel, The South, is the first of a quartet of novels about the Lims, a middle-class Malaysian Chinese family, set in 1997. This city family inherits...
‘The South’ launches a quartet of novels about coming of age in rural Malaysia
Tash Aw’s most recent novel, The South, is the first of a quartet of novels about the Lims, a middle-class Malaysian Chinese family, set...
‘Gaysians’ is a welcome addition to the canon of gay Asian literature
Gaysians is set in Seattle and opens in 2003. AJ, newly out and newly arrived, has left his Filipino American family in upstate...
Mark Izu has died; a major San Francisco Asian American artist’s legacy
Mark Izu, has died, a bassist, sho player, composer, and a major performing artist of San Francisco’s Asian American music world. His legacy is...
‘Grand Gallop’ exhibit catalogue is beautiful, cumbersome to navigate
Grand Gallop: Art and Culture of the Horse is the exhibition catalogue of the Hong Kong Palace Museum. The bilingual catalogue is a paperback...
Debut novel ‘The Emperor and the Endless Palace’ is a mashup of ancient Chinese...
The Emperor and the Endless Palace is a debut novel by Justinian Huang. The sweeping novel spans two thousand years and contains three distinct...
A storyteller searches for the soul of her city
"Soul of the City" is a music and dance ritual performance based on a combination of Japanese theater and Afro-Asian jazz. Originally performed nine...
‘Dancing with the Dead’ is a documentary portrait of Port Townsend translator Red Pine,...
Red Pine 赤松; pinyin: Chì Sōng is the pen name of the Port Townsend author, translator and Sinologist Bill Porter, born in 1943, whose...
‘Community Fire,’ captures images of Sheo Huo 社火 festival
She Huo means “community fire” (*❊$چ), and is linked to the indigenous beliefs and folkways of the Han people, marking the celebration of the...
‘Global Lives of Objects’ shines light on lesser-known Asian masterpieces
The year 2023 marked the 100th anniversary of the Freer Gallery of Art. The Freer and the Sackler Gallery now form the National Museum...
