December 2011
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8 US soldiers charged in death of Pvt. Danny Chen →
Private Danny Chen was found dead on October 3rd in an Afghanistan guard post, the apparent victim of suicide. Family members and supporters have raised their own suspicions. Asian Americans are underrepresented in the US armed services, but the Chinese community has rallied around Pvt. Chen and his family, demanding answers for his death. Nearly 400 supporters marched in downtown Manhattan...
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Chinese Art at the MET →
If you’re in the city over Christmas, stop by the Metropolitan Museum of Art for an exhibition of masterpieces from the end of the Ming Dynasty. During the forty years in which the Manchus fought to take over China, artists loyal to the Ming dynasty took refuge in creating landscape paintings and calligraphies.
Find out more information here about the exhibit, which ends January 2.
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North Korean Leader Kim Jong-il dies of stroke at... →
Youtube stirs at yet another attack on Asian... →
While this issue deserves more of an op-ed article, the intensity of racial slurs and stereotypes involved in this recent taping of Asian student at California State University, Northridge being annoyed presumably over African American girls talking in the library is worthy of a quick look. What’s interesting is that among many comments criticizing Asian girl’s action as over-the-top...
Is that a real Panda bear? →
Some of you internet people might have wondered about the legitimacy of this recent viral picture of a Panda bear sitting on a business class seat of a Chinese Airline plane. Chinese Airline decided to make an official statement regarding the matter four days ago to end all disputes, and a rather clever one at that:
China Airlines is a proud corporate sponsor of the panda snactuary at...
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Korean Cinema Now at The Museum of the Moving... →
This Sunday, December 11, at 4pm come out to Astoria’s Museum of the Moving Image for a screening of The Day He Arrives. Directed by Hong Sang-soo, the film explores the chance encounters of former filmmaker Sungjoon on his journey to Seoul.
The Museum of the Moving Image
35th Avenue at 37th Street, Astoria
Tickets are $10, museum admission included.
Event is co-hosted by The Korea...
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GENERASIAN MAGAZINE LAUNCH PARTY
Only 1 DAY AWAY!
Please come celebrate our new Fall 2011 issue!!!
Food and drinks will be provided, but more importantly, we will be distributing our long-anticipated Fall 2011 issue, hot off the press! Our new issue explores topics such as who you would root for at the FIFA World Cup, what it’s like to be biracial, “RenRen” (China’s Facebook?!), in addition to some exclusive interviews with...
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On Campus Events 12/7-9
Wednesday (TODAY), 12/7 7-9 PM Kimmel 405/406
AATA’s Final Event
Come for food, games, and a slide show! AATA is also looking to recruit a new treasurer, for next semester. Email them at nyu.aata@gmail.com for an application!
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Wednesday (TODAY), 12/7 7 PM Kimmel 905-907
Come out to Asian Cultural Union’s FINAL EVENT of the semester, and participate in their Gingerbread...
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Generasian Magazine Launch Party!!!!
Dear readers,
You are cordially invited to Generasian’s Launch Party! Please come celebrate the completion of our new issue, for which our staff has worked tirelessly on throughout the semester.
Food and drinks will be provided, but more importantly, we will be distributing our long-anticipated Fall 2011 issue, hot off the press! Our new issue explores topics such as who you would root...
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Release Party for Diary of A Radical Cancer... →
This Friday, December 9, at 7pm Fred Ho will read selections from his new book Diary of A Radical Cancer Warrior, which tells his experience with and victory over cancer. Also speaking will be Ho’s friends Quincy Troupe, the first poet laureate of California; Robert Kocik of The Prosodic Body; Magdalena Gomez, artistic director of Teatro Vida, Tiokasin Ghosthorse of First Voices of...
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Authors&Editors: Julie Otusuka and Jordan Pavlin →
Learn about the relationship between an author and an editor by hearing Julie Otusuka’s experience of writing The Buddha in the Attic with her Knopf editor Jordan Pavlin.
The Center for Fiction
17 East 47th Street
Between Fifth and Madison
FInd out more information here.
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Brainstorm!: Publish and Distribute Your Own... →
This Thursday, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and the Asian American Arts Alliance are hosting a roundtable discussion about publishing your own book.
Authors and publishers such as Emily Rubin (author of Stalina), Ram Devineni (editor and publisher at Rattapallax), and Daniel Machlin (Executive Editor at Futurepoem Books) will be speaking about e-publishing and reaching a modern...
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Academic Freedom in China? Nonexistent.
A joint U.S. and Chinese campus means a campus on Chinese soil. Many students and academic scholars around the world have found joint campuses to be great connecting threads between different cultures, and different educational philosophies and methods. However, academic freedom, a much debated topic amongst the American students studying in China, does not exist in the joint campuses.
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