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Jan 25, 20231 min read

Lang Lang & Psy at Asian Games Ceremony

by pianoman » Sat Sep 20, 2014 9:12 pm Lang Lang and Psy performed together at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon,...

Jan 25, 20234 min read

Psy Thread

by pianoman » Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:52 am Psy videos get an automatic post here. 62M views in one week. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkMN...

Jan 25, 202317 min read

Liu Zongren: Two Years in the Melting Pot

by pianoman » Wed Jul 19, 2017 10:43 pm I found this neat little book in a thrift store. In 1980, two years after Deng Xiaoping won the...

Jan 25, 20234 min read

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail Documentary

by pianoman » Fri Sep 15, 2017 11:14 pm A PBS Frontline documentary film by Hoop Dreams director Steve James about a family-owned...

Jan 25, 20237 min read

Eddie Huang & "Fresh off the Boat" (2)

Re: Eddie Huang & "Fresh off the Boat" by pianoman » Fri Oct 20, 2017 9:26 pm Randall Park gets some love from the media: ...

Jan 25, 202339 min read

Eddie Huang & "Fresh off the Boat" (1)

by pianoman » Mon Jan 19, 2015 3:57 pm While it is not technically the first Asian-American TV sitcom, on February 10th American...

Jan 25, 202331 min read

Crazy Rich Asians Thread

by pianoman » Fri Oct 20, 2017 9:47 pm Crazy Rich Asians is a film being released later this year or 2018 based on a 2013 novel by...

Jan 25, 20236 min read

Monosodium Glutamate and "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome"

by pianoman » Tue Jun 12, 2018 10:56 pm A surprisingly good five-minute video about the paranoia around MSG in Chinese restaurants was...

Jan 25, 202321 min read

HK Occupy Central Protests

by pianoman » Wed Oct 15, 2014 10:35 pm As most people know by now, there have been large street protests in Hong Kong for over two weeks...

Jan 25, 202326 min read

Mongolian Folk Metal Thread

by pianoman » Tue Aug 20, 2019 10:34 pm So at the end of 2018, a video by a Mongolian band called The Hu appeared on the Internet and...

Jan 25, 202311 min read

De Blasio Trying to Push Asians out of Elite NY Schools (2)

Re: De Blasio Trying to Push Asians out of Elite NY Schools by pianoman » Sun Nov 28, 2021 12:59 am An excellent account of the fight...

Jan 25, 202338 min read

De Blasio Trying to Push Asians out of Elite NY Schools (1)

by pianoman » Tue Jul 22, 2014 8:13 pm There is an interesting development on a topic that is important to Asian Americans. There is...

Jan 25, 202312 min read

Tyrus Wong 1910-2016

by pianoman » Sun Jan 01, 2017 7:45 pm An interesting story that came out of nowhere: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/movie ......

Jan 25, 202321 min read

Harvard Sued for Asian Quotas in Admissions (4)

Re: Harvard Sued for Asian Quotas in Admissions by pianoman » Tue Feb 23, 2021 10:12 pm Another merit-based high school program is being...

Jan 25, 202332 min read

Harvard Sued for Asian Quotas in Admissions (3)

Re: Harvard Sued for Asian Quotas in Admissions Post by pianoman » Fri Sep 27, 2019 10:15 pm So the Duke economist Peter Arcidiacono who...

Jan 25, 202336 min read

Harvard Sued for Asian Quotas in Admissions (2)

Re: Harvard Sued for Asian Quotas in Admissions Post by pianoman » Thu Aug 03, 2017 4:41 pm The Trump administration is reportedly...

Jan 25, 202343 min read

Harvard Sued for Asian Quotas in Admissions (1)

by pianoman » Mon Dec 08, 2014 8:23 pm A few years ago, a couple of studies came out using newly available data that show Asian...