Curating the best of Asian and Asian-American cuisine in Queens, this Monday, September 6th the Asian “Feastival” will serve up both innovative and traditional Asian foods along with tutorials on how to spice up your...
The sinking earlier this year of the Cheonan, a South Korean warship, has exacerbated already tense relations between North and South Korea, played a role in the resignation of Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama,...
Over the past few months, a wave of high-profile wildcat strikes has been attracting attention in Chinese and Western media. Worker unrest at companies including Foxconn, which makes parts for Apple iPods, and the...
The legendary Asian American poet will join us to read from a work that’s been 13 years in the making—-a harrowing and heartbreaking 70-poem series on the Nanjing Massacre of 1937. With Wing Tek Lum, author of...
This month, peace activists and world leaders gather in New York City to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, now in its 40th year. Aimed at protecting countries without nuclear weapons from those which have...
Since China opened its doors in 1992 to international adoption, 70,000 children have left the country to join families in the US. A new documentary looks at the process of displacement and acculturation through the...
When Irene Shen's husband of 30 years walks out on her, she says, Good riddance, only to learn hours later that he's been killed in a car accident. This compels Irene to reconnect with her three successful yet...
The Chinese government’s current efforts to tighten control over nongovernmental organizations is threatening to roll back hard-earned advances made by civil society groups over the past decade. On March 25, China’s...
Join us as we explore a tumultuous period in modern Japanese history through manga, Japanese comics. A new exhibition at the Center for Book Arts features issues of the renowned manga journal Garo during a period of...
The Japanese island of Okinawa hosts some three dozen American military bases. Under a 2006 agreement between the Bush administration and the previous Japanese government, the largest of them is scheduled to close as...
