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T2CONLINE: Power, Politics, and Personal Fractures in Roundabout’s “Chinese Republicans”
By Ross “She’s late, the girl.” The line lands like a flared warning before anything else has the chance to settle. It is tossed out with precision, edged with judgment, and it tells us immediately that this is not a room built around comfort. It is a room built on...
Massachusetts Daily Collegian: The legacy of Yuri Kochiyama, as told by her granddaughter
Yuri Kochiyama (left) with her granddaughter Akemi Kochiyama (right). Photo courtesy of Akemi Kochiyama. By Chantelle Nguyen Akemi Kochiyama-Ladson reflected on the life and legacy of her grandmother, Yuri Kochiyama, during a guest dinner hosted by the Yuri Kochiyama...
Ms. Magazine: The Curious Case of Afong Moy: Asian Womanhood and National Belonging In the U.S.
Afong Moy, often billed as “the Chinese Lady,” depicted in a 19th-century lithograph (later reproduced photographically), seated in a staged interior that reflects the Western fascination with—and exoticization of—Chinese culture. (Courtesy of the New York Public...
The Wire China: Michael Luo on the Story of Chinese Immigrants in the U.S.
By Brent Crane Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics, religion and Asian American issues. Before joining in 2016, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times, as a metro reporter, national...
International Examiner: In a novel of jealous obsession, author Canwen Xu takes a fresh look at Asians’ perceptions of themselves and others
By David Takami In her debut novel, Boring Asian Female, Canwen Xu has written a surprising page-turner about a seemingly mundane topic: graduate school admission. Elizabeth Zhang is a senior at Columbia University in New York who has applied to Harvard Law School,...
NY Times: In the Birthright Citizenship Hearing, a Story of Asians Fighting for Rights
Identification Photograph on Affadavit "In the Matter of Wong Kim Ark, Native Born Citizen of the United States." filed with the Immigration Service in San Francisco prior to his May 19 depature on the Steamer "China." The document refers to US District Court- San...
Documented: For Asian Immigrants in NYC, Legal Help Remains Out of Reach With Life-Altering Consequences
By April Xu Mohan, a 55-year-old Nepali immigrant, woke up one morning this past December expecting a resolution to two decades of uncertainty about his life in the U.S. following an old asylum denial. He had submitted a marriage-based application for adjustment of...
Playbill: In Jesa, Jeena Yi Wrote the Asian American Family Drama She Always Wanted to Be In
By Diep Tran Who doesn’t love an American family drama? A family, sitting in their living room, fighting and rediscovering each other is the bread and butter of the American theatre. Actor Jeena Yi has long loved classics like Death of a Salesman and Long Day’s...
Brooklyn College: Hess Week 2026: Three Days of Dialogue, Reflection, and Community
Brooklyn College welcomed students, faculty, and community members for Hess Week 2026, a three-day series of public events that explored Asian American lives, rights, civil liberties, faith, storytelling, mental health, and movements for racial justice. At the heart...
The LilyPad: America’s Internment of Japanese-Peruvians during WWII
By Roy Liu America has a long history of racially profiling and marginalising Asian communities through its immigration laws, foreign policy decisions, and wartime actions. Much of this history is often told through the lens of Chinese exclusion or the internment of...