Stories by Andrew Lam
Giving up a car isn't easy -- even amid the gas crisis. But the covetous American way of life has become unsustainable.
Posted on Jul 24, 2008
The Chinese government hoped the Olympics would unify China. But instead, the devastating earthquake has brought the country together.
Posted on May 28, 2008
Many wealthy Asian countries are more concerned with appeasing Myanmar's junta than helping victims of the cyclone.
Posted on May 17, 2008
Our modern obsession with technology is changing the way we relate to others -- and the way we view ourselves.
Posted on Apr 23, 2008
The real 'Cultural Revolution', the one stoked by individual desires and ambition, is happening now.
Posted on Mar 13, 2008
American schools stress self-esteem as the stepping stone to academic achievement. But students from Asian cultures, which place little stock in self-esteem, seem to do better than their American counterparts in school.
Posted on Jul 10, 2007
As the country waited to learn the identity of the killer at Virginia Tech, Asian Americans held their breath, waiting to see if they would shoulder the spillover of blame for the acts of an individual.
Posted on Apr 18, 2007
Plastic surgery is on the rise in ethnic communities across the United States, and in Asia it is as routine as having one's wisdom teeth pulled. Are these alterations an attempt to look more "white?"
Posted on Mar 31, 2007
Many comparisons have been made about the Iraq and Vietnam wars. But what Iraq may have finally done is not so much remind us of Vietnam as ultimately usurp it from our national psyche.
Posted on Feb 27, 2007
The middle class is clinging to its precious status by contending with far smaller living spaces than those of previous generations.
Posted on Feb 7, 2007
A Vietnamese immigrant reflects on U.S. consumer culture -- how it's shaped not only his family's ideals of 'The American Dream,' but the world's.
Posted on Feb 16, 2006
Vietnam remains a 'Supply Country' and shows no signs of abating.
Posted on Jul 19, 2005
April 30 became the birth date of an exile's culture, built on defeatism and a sense of tragic ending. But through the years, that date has come to symbolize something entirely different to this Vietnamese American.
Posted on Apr 29, 2005
The Golden Era of Hong Kong film is over. As Hollywood embraces stars like John Woo and Jet Li, and coopts the kung fu flick, the city that spawned the genre takes on a more down-to-earth identity.
Posted on Aug 20, 2004
Overshadowed by Michael Moore's big win at the Cannes film festival, a Thai director is awarded the prestigious Jury Prize shining a spotlight on a new generation of Thai filmmakers.
Posted on Jun 7, 2004
While McDonald's golden arches may be proliferating in every major metropolis across the world, so, for that matter, are Thai and Vietnamese restaurants.
Posted on Apr 6, 2004
Globalization? Kid's stuff. Our actions affect not just the globe, but the cosmos.
Posted on Jan 23, 2004
Vast markets in wild animals can lead to environmental destruction and, in an age of newly emerging diseases such as SARS, public health disasters.
Posted on Jan 1, 2004
In a world where we are constantly chatting, very little is actually being said. We email -- but are we really in touch?
Posted on Dec 3, 2003
The tiger's grip on our imagination is precisely the very force that drives it toward extinction.
Posted on Oct 20, 2003
Chinese Americans are worried about similarities to trial-by-media atmosphere surrounding Army chaplain's arrest.
Posted on Sep 29, 2003
This Asian American writer finds the pleas he gets from students to explain his fiction are an example of how Asian immigrants, even young ones, are having a tough time thinking like Americans.
Posted on Jun 27, 2003
The suicide of gender-bending actor Leslie Cheung also symbolizes the demise of a wild, uninhibited era of Hong Kong film that inspired many Hollywood directors.
Posted on Apr 8, 2003
For Vietnamese Americans, many of whom have lived through several wars, the looming U.S. invasion of Iraq brings up haunting memories.
Posted on Mar 19, 2003
"The Quiet American" almost didn't make it to U.S. theaters -- but it premiered in Vietnam to great fanfare.
Posted on Feb 20, 2003
The immigrant's hold on American soil has become increasingly tenuous, if not outright threatened.
Posted on Feb 10, 2003
An immigrant finds that the America he remembers as a child no longer exists.
Posted on Dec 20, 2002
Human movement across borders is greater than ever in history. The world is too interconnected for that trend to be reversed by fear of terrorism.
Posted on Oct 15, 2002
Outraged greeted the news that the Taliban in Afghanistan were going to destroy two very large statues of the Buddha. It is important, however, to recognize that Buddhism and its precepts are in no way endangered by this action.
Posted on Mar 13, 2001
