Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
As the population in the United Stated ages, having life planning documents is a must for individuals who want their wishes to be carried out in the event they become mentally or physically incapacitated. The following life planning documents will be discussed: Health Care Proxies Living Wills Durable Powers of Attorneys Springing Powers of Attorneys … Read more
Author, musician and artist, Dr. Mingmei Yip will present a reading (with performances) from her recently published novel, Peach Blossom Pavilion (Kensington Books, 2008) a fictionalized tale of the last mingji (prestigious prostitute) or Geisha, of China. The novel tells the story about the last and most successful courtesan in China, in the 1920’s French … Read more
Bodhidharma was an Indian Buddhist monk who traveled from India to China in the 5th century AD and propagated Mahayana Buddhism in China, which in China came to be known as Chan Buddhism. The Chinese also renamed him Da’mo or Ta’mo. This form of Buddhism has virtually died out in both countries, but is practiced … Read more
Alvin Eng is playwright, performer and adjunct Professor of Creative Writing on the English Department faculties of John Jay, BMCC and Fordham. He will be reading from “THE LAST EMPEROR of FLUSHING’S FINAL MANIFESTO–An Imperial Memoir in Queens English”–the prose adaptation of his acclaimed memoir monologues, The Flushing Cycle and The Last Emperor of Flushing. … Read more
In The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, author Jennifer 8. Lee takes readers on a remarkable journey that is both foreign and familiar: penetrating this subculture by traveling the world (and almost every American state) in her quest to understand Chinese food and the people who make it. Her journey took her to the hometown of General … Read more
This book is a 21st Century snapshot of Asian Pacific Americans; a tapestry of tales reflecting their lives, experiences, hopes, and dreams. Ultimately the spectrum of values–in education, family, work–form a remarkable mosaic of the Asian American experience, distinct in many ways from that of Asians living in Asia, or as immigrants encountering diaspora elsewhere … Read more