Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Date and Time Tue, February 23, 2016 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EST Location The Joseph S. Murphy Institute 25 West 43rd Street 18th floor New York, NY 10036 Description The Murphy Institute Co-sponsored by the Murphy Institute & the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) Join us for an important discussion with Pun … Read more
The public art projects of Katie Yamasaki have covered topics from the Japanese Internment to the militarization of inner city youth. In just 8 years since the completion of her MFA at the School of Visual Arts, her work has earned her invitations to develop public art projects in Chiapas, Mexico with the Zapatista Army … Read more
A wave of costume drama serials began to dominate dramatic programming in Chinese primetime television in the mid 1990s. Such drama serials featured historical figures and events of glorious bygone dynasties. The trend climaxed in the late 1990s and the early 2000s with the saturation of palace drama set in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), what … Read more
Arriving to the United States from Taiwan in 1964, Mr. Hsin Yuan Cheng, an immigrant with an extensive background in journalism and broadcasting, has spent more than thirty years of his life immersed in the hustle and bustle of Chinatown. Over the past three decades, from 1970 to 2000, he has both reported and witnessed … Read more