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Before Lucy Liu:

Five Asian American films made by non-Asians

While The Flower Drum Song (1959) is the Hollywood film best known for the portrayal of Asian Americans, there are several milestone films that were more sympathetic and critical of Asian...

Joy Tang | Issue 6: Makeover - Summer 2005

The Best Form of Flattery:

Hollywood’s answer to those pesky foreign languages.

Remakes are the rage in Hollywood—and producers have rediscovered Asian film plots as a new alternative to actual creativity. Martin Scorsese is looking to Americanize Hong Kong’s Infernal...

Joy Tang | Issue 6: Makeover - Summer 2005
ELECTRIC! ELECTRIC!:

ELECTRIC! ELECTRIC!:

The return of IQU

Back in 1998, an Olympia, WA band called ICU launched a dynamic album that defied categories. Produced by Calvin Johnson, Chotto Matte A Moment melded pop with jazz with lo-fi rock with dance. The...

Joy Tang | Issue 6: Makeover - Summer 2005
Anthologize This:

Anthologize This:

Are Asian American literary anthologies still relevant today?

ASK ANY ANTHOLOGY editor the rationale behind organizing a new collection of work and you’ll get a wide and complex range of answers: Market need, showcasing a new generation of voices,...

Joy Tang | Issue 6: Makeover - Summer 2005

Recipe:

How to spot an Asianpile

Have you ever started dating people just to find out later that the main reason they’re interested in you is that you’re of the Asian persuasion? We have. And it made us feel icky. In an...

Joy Tang | Recipe, Issue 6: Makeover - Summer 2005

Mayor of Roses

I grew up in a country of torrid heat, a country that, if I were to try and describe it, might be summed up simply by saying that the smells were not like anything we know here. The smells I...

Joy Tang | Issue 6: Makeover - Summer 2005

The Arrival

A flood of cities overwhelms

our whelping scarves. O ingenue of distance,

we shall infuse Pasadena

with vernacular after vernacular. Airports meant

for athletes to dive...

Joy Tang | Issue 6: Makeover - Summer 2005

Contributors

MARIANNE VILLANUEVA is the author of the short story collections Mayor of the Roses and Ginseng and Other Tales From Manila, a finalist for the Philippine National Book Award....

Joy Tang | Issue 6: Makeover - Summer 2005

Letters

No, thank you. No, really, thanks

I received my first copy of Hyphen this quarter and just wanted to say thanks for all the time and energy you’ve put into publishing the magazine. Aside from enjoying the various articles, I also...

Joy Tang | Issue 6: Makeover - Summer 2005

New Recruits

An Asian face for the Army of One

Last January, an Asian face graced the most American of advertising campaigns: recruitment print ads for the United States Army....

Rhea Wong | Issue 1: Premiere - Summer 2003, Redux

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The South Issue

Mosey with us through the South, a region rich with history and culture -- and one that is vital to, but often overlooked in, Asian American history.

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