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6 stories on culture across film, TV, music, fashion, food, and diaspora culture.
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Alison Kuo plays the Cantonese-opera general her grandmother sang in Hong Kong, tonight at the New Museum. Friday and Saturday are both sold out.
Image: Tommy Kha, courtesy the New Museum
In Honolulu, Asian life spans Kalihi, Ala Moana, Waikīkī, and Kakaʻako without needing to perform for a white center. Mainland "Asian American" culture often sells the polished slice. Here the range just reads as local.
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Dear You turned a $2.1 million Teochew-language family drama into a roughly $291 million global hit. Its new U.S. trailer sets up a Sept. 4 release after an earlier North American date vanished and Well Go USA took the handoff.
Image: Well Go USA / Damai Entertainment
OUT Museum, a bilingual one-room space at 949 Clay Street, bills itself as the world’s first Chinese queer museum. Founder Xiangqi Chen built it so Chinese LGBTQ+ artists from China and the diaspora can be seen in public, including work that cannot safely circulate at home.
Image: Cecilia Lei / COYOTE Media Collective
Evite says mahjong nights jumped 94% year over year in 2026, while designers in Dallas–Fort Worth and beyond turn spare offices and formal dining rooms into dedicated parlors. The Chinese tile game is back as an offline ritual, a luxury product category, and a status room.
Image: The Mahjong Line
Creator Eunnuri Lee argues in a TikTok get-ready-with-me video that white activists too often center self-expression at protests, turning solidarity into spectacle and content.
Image: Where Is The Buzz
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