This site maps the flow of popular culture across the Pacific to think critically about issues of authenticity and appropriation, opportunity and Orientalism.
Cultural Appropriation or Cultural Exchange?
Cheongsam: Then and Now
The Modern Ao Dai: Alterations By The West
Asian American Celebrity Chefs
Huang’s World: A Rebellious World of Food
Finding Filipino Food
Noodle Soups in Context: Capitalism, Colonialism, and the Carceral State
Popularization of Certain Chinese Foods in America: A Case Study of Sweet and Sour Sauce vs. Black Bean Sauce
Lucha Libre
Asianization of Hollywood
“Marimar” and Other Mexican Telenovelas in the Philippines
Pokémon
Youtube
Nothing to My Name: The Curious Case of Chinese Rock N’ Roll
