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The Top 10 APA Movies of 2012

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By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly From close-set family dramas to burgeoning blockbusters, Asian films were as strong as ever this year. Here are my picks for the top ten […]

The 10 Best Asian Pop Songs You Might’ve Missed in 2012

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By Reese Umbaugh For the Northwest Asian Weekly When South Korean artist Psy’s song “Gangnam Style” became a worldwide phenomenon this year, the formerly niche genre known as

Meet the father of the kung fu flick

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By Staff KOREAM JOURNAL New America Media In the early 1970s, before Bruce Lee popularized the martial arts genre and before English overdubs became so easy to mock, the first […]

A-pop! Twitter idiots strike again, and a farewell to Das Racist

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A monthly column about all things Asian in popular culture By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly The holiday season typically compels people to perform acts of goodwill despite conflicts and […]

Bamboo art breaks boundaries in Bellevue

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By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly One striking piece from the Modern Twist exhibit at the Bellevue Arts Museum (BAM) is “Hope,” <!–more–>an intricately woven bamboo sculpture that looks as […]

Seattle-born professor releases new translation of the I Ching

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By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Last fall, a new translation of the classic Chinese text, the “I Ching,” or “Book of Changes,” appeared in bookstores. This new version of […]

Poet Nellie Wong serves up sustenance and struggle

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By Signe Predmore Northwest Asian Weekly If there’s one thing that Oakland-based poet Nellie Wong wants to make clear, it’s that she’s no Amy Tan.

At the “Mekong Hotel”

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By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly “All characters appearing in this work are actual persons,” warns the fine print at the end of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s new film, “Mekong Hotel.” “Any […]

Psy’s Gangnam Style becomes most viewed video on YouTube ever

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By Andrew Lam New America Media Anthropologists and linguists are no doubt having a field day trying to chronicle and dissect how,