Stories

By Jason Wang A dish is prepared in a wok at a restaurant in Toronto. For nearly a century, a ritual has become so entrenched in the Jewish experience in North America that it has become shorthand: Every Christmas, while much of the country gathers around a roast or a turkey, Jewish families gather around […]

Creator May Lee-Yang, a founding member of the Funny Asian Women Kollective, launched Mayhem Games to center Asian American stories. By Anna Nguyen A group plays Clap Back: The Asian American Edition at Arbeiter Brewing in Minneapolis on Dec. 10, 2025. Credit: Chris Juhn for Sahan Journal It’s a card game that tackles microaggressions Asian

By Nik Moy Retired park ranger Yenyen Chan at Yosemite’s Sing Peak. She earned NPCA’s 2025 Stephen T. Mather Award for unearthing and uplifting the untold contributions of Chinese Americans to the founding and development of Yosemite and the National Park Service. © NPCA/Nik Moy At the farthest southern corner of Yosemite National Park, we

By Abigail Constantino The sound of clinking glasses pierced over the din at Lucky Danger in D.C.’s Chinatown. Past the tables filled with diners and happy hour patrons on a Wednesday night, toward the back and beyond another bar in the restaurant’s inner sanctum, the washing is taking place. The “dishwasher,” however, is an automatic

Billie Tsien, founding partner of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, tells of designing the Asia Society Hong Kong Centre and the Obama Presidential Centre. By Charmaine Chan I’M A FIRST-GENERATION Chinese-American. My parents left Shanghai in 1948 to go to grad school at Cornell. When I was born (in 1949), my grandfather gave me a Chinese

By TERRY TANG Christine Choy, a trailblazer for Asian Americans in independent film and whose documentary on the fatal beating of Vincent Chin was nominated for an Academy Award, has died. She was 73. Choy died Sunday, according to a statement from JT Takagi, executive director of Third World Newsreel, a filmmaking collective Choy helped

The psychology of Asian American and Pacific Islander identity and wellness. Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer, Ph.D. Key points Belonging and critical consciousness shape well-being and civic engagement among AAPI individuals. Racism, trauma, and misrepresentation create enduring structural and psychological barriers. Community care, rooted in culture, mentorship, and solidarity, builds resilience and fuels justice. The Asian