Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Tammy Ho explores how Hong Kong has been imagined and portrayed in Western literature and film, and examines how local writers respond to, resist, and remake these external portrayals to reclaim their own stories.
“What kind of life do we want in the 21st century?” THE CHINESE TRANSLATION OF COVID-19 is 新冠肺炎 (xinguan feiyan), literally, “new crown lung inflammation,” or, “new crown pneumonia.” Given its huge impact upon people of all walks of life around the world, the coronavirus pandemic is regarded by many people as the most serious … Read more
Forty-five years after film legend Bruce Lee’s sudden death at age thirty-two, journalist and bestselling author Matthew Polly has written the definitive account of Lee’s life. An authoritative biography, Bruce Lee: A Life features dozens of rarely seen photographs of Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon, bridged the divide between Eastern and Western … Read more
Are the concepts of God and Tao related? Is there light within us? How can we integrate Western and Eastern traditions for modern humanity? How can we live to fulfill our wishes? These issues are examined in Dr. Kwanyk Claire Sit’s two books,Lao Tzu and Anthroposophy and The Lord’s Prayer: An Eastern Perspective. Dr. Sit will share her … Read more
The purpose of the conference is to reinvigorate the dialog between Eastern and Western philosophy (philosophy as distinct from religion), and a galaxy of brilliant speakers from all over the globe have agreed to participate.
This research study was funded by PSC-CUNY Research Grant for 2001-2002. This cross-cultural descriptive study compared the childbearing concerns and experiences of Korean and Western postnatal mothers in three areas: physiological, psychosocial and infant care. In order to ascertain whether there were cultural differences in these three areas, a survey was conducted. Fifty Western postnatal … Read more