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Her artistry and grace took center stage this spring when 21-year-old Mira Nadon stepped into a pinnacle role at the New York City Ballet as the company's first-ever Asian American female principal ...

Marjorie Hsu is the co-chair of the Asian American Advisory Board, which was created by County Executive George Latimer in 2021.

Deteriorating relations between Washington and Beijing imperil contact between citizens, but also make it more important
Richer and more complex stories lie behind dominant narratives, as the British Museum’s fascinating new exhibition, , reminds us. It challenges the conventional wisdom that the country’s “long 19th century” was solely a time of decay and decline. It documents and aggression and plunder by foreign powers – notably Britain – but also resilience and innovation. By looking beyond the Qing court, it includes individuals, ideas and possibilities that complicate our understanding of China’s identity and trajectory. Alongside splendid imperial robes, visitors see a cook’s uniform. They hear not only Empress Dowager Cixi’s words, but those of the feminist and revolutionary martyr .
At a time when hostility towards the west and especially the US is growing in China, and vice versa, looking beyond headlines and politicians to other parts of the story is crucial. When intergovernmental relations hit the rocks, the contacts between societies and individuals – whether through tourism, academic discussion or shared cultural interests – are even more important. They can offer a less pressured and public space for exploring options. They can help to build understanding and prevent escalation. Conversely, domestic nationalism can make it harder for governments to pull back in a crisis even if they wish to. As the American and Chinese scholars Scott Kennedy and Wang Jisi warn in a recent report on academic exchange, : “Less connectivity is not only a product of worsening ties, it also has contributed to the decline of relations ... A rise in estrangement reinforced fears about the other side’s motives.”

This spring, 21-year-old Mira Nadon stepped into a crowning role at the New York City Ballet as the company's first ever Asian American female principal dancer. Nancy Chen has her story.

"American Born Chinese" reunites Oscar-winning actors from "Everything Everywhere All at Once" in new Disney+ series.

"American Born Chinese" reunites Oscar-winning actors from "Everything Everywhere All at Once" in new Disney+ series.

Wang Bing’s moving documentary follows young workers as they laugh, fight and question their bosses while undertaking a season of brutally hard work
Charlie Chaplin’s frantic production-line factory worker in Modern Times is a ghostly presence in this giant, immersive documentary from Chinese director Wang Bing, the movie equivalent of a wall-sized tapestry; it is about the sweatshop capital of China, the in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, known as the “city of children’s clothing”. Thousands of workshops turn out mountains of cheap garments and every year vast numbers of young people from about 16 to 22 come from outlying cities to do a season of brutally hard work in return for cash in hand.
This is China’s hop picking or kibbutzim, the young workers often staying in the grim dorms the bosses offer rent free to justify low pay. There are bricks of cash to be seen in this film, no question of internet bank transfers and perhaps the whole thing happens without the involvement of the tax collector.Wang has already made a similar film about migrant factory workers called Bitter Money, and there are some spectacularly grim vistas in Youth: the main street of Zhili is a brutalist concrete avenue which eerily extends to the far horizon like something from a sci-fi movie (or perhaps something by Roy Andersson). The dorms themselves are squalid and cramped. But the first thing that strikes you about the workers is their energy, verve, humour and their hopefulness. Their “youth”, as in the film’s title, is not ironic: they are not, as I suspected they might be, prematurely aged by work (although the incessant wrangling about piecemeal rates of pay is clearly taking its toll by the end).

Asian American women have been directing award-winning and popular films and TV shows for decades. Stacker compiled a list of 25 of them working today.

Advanced money-laundering techniques and clandestine precursor imports combine to stoke the opioid crisis – can the US stem the flow?
For a few days in April, news sites across Latin America were running Instagram photos of a glamorous blond woman enjoying trips around the world.
There were pictures of Ana Gabriela Rubio Zea, 32, posing in a blue dress and Yves Saint Laurent handbag outside San Miguel de Allende, ice skating in a miniskirt in Central Park and laughing in the Forbidden City.

Arena Stage presents the new play “Exclusion,” which is a Hollywood satire about a shocking moment in Asian American history, near The Wharf in Southwest D.C. now through June 25.

The US and China have a complex relationship, yet the movie business is one area where the two nations have enjoyed collaboration. But in the last few years, even this partnership has become more competitive. However, as the two countries' political relationship grows more rancorous, China is opening the door to US blockbusters once again. The whole thing is starting to resemble a romance straight out of the movies. So why is China's film industry so dependent on Hollywood?