Anime fans have cause to rejoice – revered animator and living legend Hayao Miyazaki is making a rare U.S. appearance this Saturday at the Zellerbach Auditorium in UC Berkeley. The event involves a conversation with Roland Kelts (Tokyo University lecturer and author of Japanamerica – a book I…
Last Friday I watched UCLA’s 2009 Chinese American Culture Night. It brought up a number of themes of relevance to Asian Pacific Islander (API) Americans today, one of which was eating disorders and poor body image. A 2007 feature article in Audrey magazine goes into depth about the…
An article by Ngoc Nguyen in today’s New America Media website reports that “among California’s Asian Americans, 83 percent describe themselves as ‘environmentalists,’ compared to just 52 percent of all California voters, according to a first-ever poll on the environmental attitudes of Asian-American voters.” The groundbreaking multilingual poll…
This year’s story is a fictional account of life in Hong Kong during the 2003 SARS epidemic. Information provided courtesy of Hong Kong Student Society and the event’s Facebook page. Hong Kong Culture Night 2009 May 11, 2009, 6:00pm-10:00pm Ackerman Grand Ballroom, UCLA “愛.疫：In Love and In Sickness”…
Information provided courtesy of the UCLA Asia Institute website. Theme: The Legend of “Bawang Merah and Bawang Putih” Saturday, May 09, 2009 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM Ackerman Grand Ballroom UCLA Campus Los Angeles, CA 90095 It’s free and open to the public. No tickets required. I’m going and…
Each week, Pacific Ties will be featuring a strip from “Two Item Combo,” a comic strip by Rickmond Wong, who is a Pacific Ties alumni from back in the day 🙂 We dug this up from our archives and they’re too cool to hide away in a filing…