March 2011
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February 2011
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Campus Events 2/28/11 - 3/6/11
NORTH KOREA AND SCIENCE FICTION – talk by Seo-Young Chu, followed by screening of PULGASARI (dir. Shin Sang-ok, 1985)
Monday, February 28 · 6:30 pm 20 Cooper Square, Room 471 Since the division of Korea following World War II, the reality of North Korea has evaded direct representation. Photographs and firsthand accounts of this enigmatic country are relatively scarce. At the same time,...
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Recap: Revolt of the Week
Perhaps February is in fact the maddest month of the year, as there have been protests across Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Greece, and more muted rumblings in Iran, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and of course Wisconsin. If you are only a casual observer of the news, it may seem like the Middle Eastern/African/Arab/Islamic world has been spontaneously erupting into demonstrations...
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Taiwan's aspiring first woman president →
Former Vice President Annette Lu formerly announced her candidacy for the 2012 presidency on Friday. Lu feels she is the most capable candidate because she was one of the only vice presidents to serve the maximum number of years, 8. For those eight years, she served under President Chen Shui-bian who adamantly promoted Taiwan’s independence from China. During the years of Chen and Lu’s...
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Leaflets from the sky, oh my
“[A] dictatorial regime is destined to collapse.”
The South Korean military has been sending over leaflets to their Northern neighbors with messages of pro-democracy and information on the recent Egypt uprisings and its influence on Libya. (The media of North Korea are under one of the most strict government controls in the world and the government is particular about the leakage of news...
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THE MOTH: IMAM KHALID LATIF-CHARACTERS UNITE →
The first Muslim chaplain at New York University and youngest chaplain of the New York City Police Department.
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On USA Network’s series Characters Unite, NYU’s Imam Khalid Latif shares his own story about his relationship with Islam, and his identity as a Muslim American, in post-9/11 NYC. It’s an incredibly honest and moving...
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Second Generation theatre company presents...
Non-profit theater company, Second Generation (2g) presents:
The theme is “I Never…” Over thirty Asian American artists crash-banging into each other. The form is Vaudeville. They are making these things over the course of a week. There may be clowning, dance, songs, short plays, hybrid theater and everything in between. There will most certainly be mayhem. And possibly magic.
Friday, February...
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APAs, 12% and growing, rally for a fair budget
On Wed. Feb. 16th, 150 members of a coalition representing 40 Asian American organizations and Council Members Daniel Dromm and Margaret Chin gathered in front of the steps of City Hall to urge the Mayor to recognize the needs to support Asian Pacific American organizations. The 12% and Growing Coalition, remind the Mayor that although APAs make up of 12% of New York City’s population, they...
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License to Kill?
John Kerry has just flown in from the States to Lahore, Pakistan, and boy is he tired. Tired of trying to claim that the shooting of two Pakistani motorcyclists on January 27, 2011 by an American consulate employee, Raymond Davis, is covered by the Geneva Convention. The two young men were allegedly chasing the American vehicle to rob it.
Davis (the administrator of technical employees in...
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Bryant and Chou spark creativity to aid Project... →
The Asian superstar Jay Chou, who just played a part in the Hollywood movie “The Green Hornet,” now cooperates with Kobe Bryant, the Lakers All-Star guard in a music video for Sprite. The new song “The Heaven and Earth Challenge,” written by Chou, is the latest Sprite commercial basketball theme song. The breakingthrough cooperation between a world famous basketball...
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Campus Events 2/21/11 - 2/27/11
TEA’LiCIOUS TASS-First General Meeting Tuesday, February 22 · 6:00pm - 8:00pm Kimmel Shorin 802 Come out and join TASS on Tuesday night for a cup of yummy tealicious bubble tea! Also learn about the exciting upcoming events that TASS has to offer and last but not least to hang out with the cool eboard
The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion...
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Cricket (the sport) to confidence →
Bangladesh has traditionally been an antifeminist country, but could change be coming? That’s what it seemed like when both men and boys gathered on a field to watch a girl’s team play one of the country’s favorite past times, cricket.
Bangladesh is a very traditional country in which girls are forbidden to play sports and are usually married off around the age of 15....
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Disorientation
Friends! This week Kyoung H. Park’s new play, disOriented premieres at the Peter J. Sharp Theater (42nd St. between 9th and 10th avenue). Running from February 16- March 5, the play “tells the story of Ju Yeon, an immigrant living in New York who has distanced herself from her Korean roots.” Featuring a dancing spirit and a journey back to Korea, it’s bound to be a...
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The Boyz are Back
Marvin Mercado, the thirty-seven year old former leader of Asian Boyz (or ABZ), has been convicted of an astounding number of eight murders and 10 attempted murders.
The Asian Boyz are an Asian American street gang, some formed with the Crips (which would then be known as the ABZ Crips). The history is relatively simple - in 1985, ABZ was created by a group of Cambodian youths. They represent...
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Link Compilasian: Asia's Biggest Boozer, Museums,...
Get unlimited two-for-one admission to the Museum of Chinese in America through May 31st with the Museum Discovery Pass. Also good towards seven other museums, including the Asia Society Museum, the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, and the Noguchi Museum.
Based on a map that published recent findings from the World Health Organization, South Koreans consume the most alcohol out of all...
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'Food Fight' in New Asian Supermarket
After the Key Food closed down in downtown Flushing and replaced by New York Asian Mart, many white residents have decided that this was the last straw. Non-Asian residents are demanding a wider selection of food and more signs translated into English because they are often written in Chinese or Korean, which they can’t read. While complaints like these have been common since the...
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Campus Events 2/14/11 - 2/20/11
Yuan 2011 Model Auditions
Tuesday, February 15 5:30pm - 7:30pm Kimmel 808 NYU’s Chinese Mei Society is ready to present Yuan 2011! Yuan has always been one of the biggest fashion/cultural shows of the year so we’re looking for the hottest models to work our runway! If you can’t make it to the first audition date on Feb 13, here’s you second chance! Ladies, bring your...
You probably don't need another reminder...
But today is Valentine’s day (surprise!). To celebrate, indulge in a bit of Angry Little Girls by artist Lela Lee.
Happy Valentine’s Day (or Singles Awareness Day, depending on your denominasian) from Generasian!
Illegal Indian Immigration
South Asian immigration to the United States stretches across a long historical timeline. Although South Asians had been transported around the world by the East India Company from the 1600’s, the first recognized South Asian community- a small group of male, agricultural workers mostly Sikhs from the Punjab and Muslims. Until the 1960’s what few immigrants could squeeze by racialized and gendered...
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Excerpt from Amy Chua's book "Battle Hymn of the... →
This article is both interesting and comedic. A must read; I can’t do it justice by summarizing it so please go and read it.
Chua is a Yale Law school professor whose book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” is based off her her own adventures as a mother of 2 daughters. In the article, she outlines her very strict and stereotypical Chinese mothering style complete with banning:
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Link Compilasian: Egypt, Missing Children,...
A few protestors in Egypt have been photographed with posters written in Chinese with messages like “The Egyptian people demand that President Mubarak step down.” Reasons for this are not clear, but one Egyptian commentator explained, “Nothing to do with spreading democracy to China. Just sarcasm and humor about Mubarak’s inability to ‘understand’ Arabic and...
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More Weekend Events 2/10/11 - 2/13/11
Some weekend events for those of us who need to get off the couch and live a little. Asian/Pacific/American Studies Job Talk “Not-so-Desperate Housewives: Transnational Migration and the Diasporic Indian Household”, lecture by Professor Amy Bhatt, University of Washington
The A/P/A studies department is searching for a new faculty member through a series called Job Talk, where...
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New York City’s Chinese New Year Parade in Photos →
Welcome to the Year of the Rabbit! Yesterday, thousands of onlookers gathered in Chinatown to celebrate the 12th annual Lunar New Year parade. The festivities included floats, costumes, musicians, dancers, and plenty of good ol’ Chinese-American times. If you couldn’t attend the event because you were too busy preparing your infamous nacho dip or applying your decorative face paint for last...
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Campus Events 2/7/11 - 2/13/11
Speaking Freely
Speaking Freely offers sessions in Arabic, Cantonese, Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. It’s all free—and easy. Meet new people and have fun. It’s the perfect way to try out a language and culture before you study or visit.
Martin Luther King Week
On February 10, 1961,...
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Hong Kong universities move to a 4 year curriculum →
The college education system in Hong Kong is soon going to be quite different. Where previously, students completed 7 years of high school and then 3 years of college is now going to be changed to 6 years of high school and 4 years of college. Modeled after the educational system of the United States, the new curriculum will include more of the liberal arts. Also incorporated into the curriculum...
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Queering the Lunar New Year Parade
Today’s NYC Chinatown Parade’ marked the first second time in this event’s 12-year history where LGBTQ contingents were allowed to march. Early January of 2010, LGBT group Q-Wave led a rigorous public campaign, the Asian Pride Project, appealing to the parade planning committee to include an LGBT group in this year’s parade. The Asian Pride Project is a coalition comprised...
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Yoni Ki Baat
There are a lot of myths about the way South Asian women are, because of course gender and sexual preferences are “inherited”- inspite of any ethnic, class, nationality differences. For instance South Asian women, as a group, don’t have sex, don’t even like sex. South Asian women are always, at any given moment, about to be arranged into a marriage of convenience (don’t lie- I know you’ve asked or...
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The Egypt and North Korea Connection
The outbreak of protests in Egypt have been astounding audiences worldwide - audiences including those in North Korea.
So what do these protests to overthrow Hosni Mubarak and the current situation in North Korea have in common?
The Egyptian regime faced much opposition when President Mubarak tried to transfer power to his son. Similarly, North Korea’s infamous Kim regime has been...
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Link Compilasian: Korematsu Day, Year of the...
Link Compilasian will be a weekly feature posted every Friday.
January 30th was the first ever celebration of Fred Korematsu Day in California. If you didn’t celebrate on Sunday, take today to reflect on Korematsu’s legacy and the issues and injustices that your own community faces. Better late than never, as I’m sure Fred would agree.
Year of the Rabbit could also be year...
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URGENT! Cure Rayan Bone Marrow Drives in NYC
Rayan, just three years old, was recently diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). He is in dire need of a bone marrow match and has yet to find one. People all over the nation are coming together to organize bone marrow drives and two of them happen to be in New York City. From the Facebook page, a bone marrow test
is free, painless and takes 30 seconds. Gender is not relevant, but ...
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Happy New Year!!
Tonight is Chinese New Year’s Eve, and as I write this the lunar calendar is transitioning out of the Year of the Tiger and into the Year of the Golden Rabbit. Unlike the New Year’s celebrated on January 1st, Chinese New Year isn’t about self-improvement and resolution setting, rather it’s about ushering in wealth to the the coming year. Armed with red envelopes and...
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"Green Hornet" remains top at foreign box office →
Jay Chou, the Chinese pop superstar has successfully made his Hollywood debut in “the Green Hornet”! Chou is undoubtedly a huge star in Asia. As a singer, composer, song writer and music producer, he created his own music style which popularized the whole China, and started a new era of Taiwan pop music . His music has gained recognition throughout the whole Asia, and spread to the...
