available now: https://tinyurl.com/justadream-ep

conceptualized and recorded remotely in California and Minnesota during the pandemic, yana-imi and soundcloud.com/micahchibana's "imi ru yataru | just a dream" EP consists of one original song from each artist and a collaborative cover of R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion." both original songs draw influence from the artists' shared cultural heritage and incorporate a traditional Ryūkyūan/Okinawan instrument called sanshin.

track listing:
1. yana-imi | imi ru yataru - just a dream
2. yana-imi and Micah Chibana | Losing My Religion (R.E.M. Cover)
3. Micah Chibana | Sakura and Parking Lots

teaser trailer | imi ru yataru – just a dream (EP)

inspiring thoughts about the potential of a rich civic life from Ted Liu.
juxtaposed with reality at a Chinatown Neighborhood Board meeting in Honolulu.

AAJA Civics 2020

Romeo and Juliet meets Chinese mythology in this magical novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Astonishing Color of After.

Hunter Yee has perfect aim with a bow and arrow, but all else in his life veers wrong. He’s sick of being haunted by his family’s past mistakes. The only things keeping him from running away are his little brother, a supernatural wind, and the bewitching girl at his new high school.

Luna Chang dreads the future. Graduation looms ahead, and her parents’ expectations are stifling. When she begins to break the rules, she finds her life upended by the strange new boy in her class, the arrival of unearthly fireflies, and an ominous crack spreading across the town of Fairbridge.

As Hunter and Luna navigate their families’ enmity and secrets, everything around them begins to fall apart. All they can depend on is their love…but time is running out, and fate will have its way.
 
An Arrow to the Moon, Emily X.R. Pan’s brilliant and ethereal follow-up to The Astonishing Color of After, is a story about family, love, and the magic and mystery of the moon that connects us all.

Available April 12, 2022 from Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in Print and Ebook from Little, Brown Young Readers. 

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An Arrow to the Moon by Emily X.R. Pan Read by Natalie Naudus, Shawn K. Jain, and David Shih - Audio

CELLULOID DREAMS 3/24/22

THIS WEEK'S SHOW: A multiverse of weird! 

An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led. That's the official plot description of EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, but it doesn't begin to describe this wildly-creative, unpredictable and mind-bending film! We spend time with all its principal players: the writer/director team of Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (DANIELS) and actors Michelle Yeoh (CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON), Ke Huy Quan (INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM) and Stephanie Hsu (THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL).

Celluloid Dreams - the Movie Show

MICHELLE YEOH + KE HUY QUAN + STEPHANIE HSU discuss EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (3-24-22)

Annie Leong (China): Interviews on April 15 and 16, 1990, released signed, April 16, 1990 (2 tapes). Leong was born in St. Louis’s Chinatown, lived there until 1966, when it was demolished to build Busch stadium. She describes youth, school, The Asia Restaurant owned by her family, growth of Chinese community, church, customs, religion, American and Chinese holidays and the blending of cultures. Tape Information Sheet only.

ABOUT THE COLLECTION

The Missouri Historical Society initiated an oral history project in conjunction with a photograph exhibition entitled, Golden Gateway: Asian Americans in St Louis. The exhibition opened on 31 May 1990 and closed on 3 September 1990. It utilized photographs borrowed from those individuals interviewed for the project along with photographs from the Society’s own collections. It focused on six nations: China, Japan, Korea, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Vida “Sister” Prince volunteered her time to interview 32 people during 23 interviews for the project. Katharine Corbett, a Missouri Historical Society employee, joined Prince during the John and Nikki Hara interview.

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

The collection is arranged alphabetically by topic and personal names. It dates from 1979 to 1995, however, the interviews took place from March to June 1990. The collection consists primarily of a single Tape Information Sheet completed by Vida Sister Prince following each interview. There are transcripts for four of the 23 interviews conducted for the project. There are five additional items in the collection: exhibition labels, a brief biography of Sherwin Liou (March 1979), Paul Maruyama's obituary (1995), Joseph Tanaks' obituary (1991), and a letter to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editor written by Takuri Tei (1990).
The four transcripts in the collection reveal details of interviews with Japanese Americans, three of whom were relocated from the west coast and interred during World War II (John Hara, Paul Maruyama, and Sam M. Nakano). They explained their war time experiences and how they came to St. Louis after the war. Joseph Tanaka was the only Japanese American interviewed who was born in St. Louis. He served with the 442nd Combat Team, a unit comprised entirely of Japanese Americans.

See the finding aid: mohistory.org/collections/item/A3073

M3355 - Interview with Annie Leong PART ONE, Vida "Sister" Prince Oral History Collection

Lillie Hong (China): Interview and release signed March 28, 1990 (1 tape). Lillie Hong came to St. Louis in 1924 from Canton when she was five years old. She talked about growing up, school, Chinatown marriage, children, the laundries, restaurant, St. Louis Chinese Gospel Church, and personal feelings. Tape Information Sheet only.

ABOUT THE COLLECTION

The Missouri Historical Society initiated an oral history project in conjunction with a photograph exhibition entitled, Golden Gateway: Asian Americans in St Louis. The exhibition opened on 31 May 1990 and closed on 3 September 1990. It utilized photographs borrowed from those individuals interviewed for the project along with photographs from the Society’s own collections. It focused on six nations: China, Japan, Korea, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Vida “Sister” Prince volunteered her time to interview 32 people during 23 interviews for the project. Katharine Corbett, a Missouri Historical Society employee, joined Prince during the John and Nikki Hara interview.

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

The collection is arranged alphabetically by topic and personal names. It dates from 1979 to 1995, however, the interviews took place from March to June 1990. The collection consists primarily of a single Tape Information Sheet completed by Vida Sister Prince following each interview. There are transcripts for four of the 23 interviews conducted for the project. There are five additional items in the collection: exhibition labels, a brief biography of Sherwin Liou (March 1979), Paul Maruyama's obituary (1995), Joseph Tanaks' obituary (1991), and a letter to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editor written by Takuri Tei (1990).

The four transcripts in the collection reveal details of interviews with Japanese Americans, three of whom were relocated from the west coast and interred during World War II (John Hara, Paul Maruyama, and Sam M. Nakano). They explained their war time experiences and how they came to St. Louis after the war. Joseph Tanaka was the only Japanese American interviewed who was born in St. Louis. He served with the 442nd Combat Team, a unit comprised entirely of Japanese Americans.

See the finding aid: mohistory.org/collections/item/A3073

M3343 - Interview with Lillie Hong, Vida "Sister" Prince Oral History Collection

“Dr. Jenny T. Wang has been an incredible resource for Asian mental health. I believe that her knowledge, presence, and activism for mental health in the Asian American/Immigrant community have been invaluable and groundbreaking. I am so very grateful that she exists.”—Steven Yeun,  actor, The Walking Dead and Minari

Asian Americans are experiencing a racial reckoning regarding their identity, inspiring them to radically reconsider the cultural frameworks that enabled their assimilation into American culture. As Asian Americans investigate the personal and societal effects of longstanding cultural narratives suggesting they take up as little space as possible, their mental health becomes critically important. Yet despite the fact that over 18 million people of Asian descent live in the United States today — 5.6 percent of the population — they are the racial group least likely to seek out mental health services.

  Permission to Come Home confronts and destabilizes the stigma Asian Americans face in caring for their mental health. Weaving her personal narrative as a Taiwanese American and insights as a clinician with evidenced-based tools, Dr. Jenny T. Wang offers readers permission to embrace their mental and emotional self-care while understanding and honoring the richness of their heritage and embodying a new, complete identity. In ten chapters, each one focusing on a central theme—from recognizing emotions, to establishing boundaries, managing anger, and introducing play into one’s life—Dr. Wang presents a road map for the journey to wholeness.

Available May 3, 2022 from Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in Print and Ebook from Balance. 

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Permission To Come Home by Jenny T. Wang, PhD Read by Jenny T. Wang, PhD - Audiobook Excerpt

Jbunnytheproducer here on some edm stuff. Working hard or hardly working at LARS (LA recording School) by day, and making music by night. To all my wonderful followers- I appreciate each one of you and I just know we're gonna have a BLAST in the future! Till then>keep tuning in now and again for a taste of the new new... PEW PEW

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Autumns Tribe

Sometimes in life, we leave someone whom we love so dearly and truly that it hurts us. We let them go and forge their own destiny, as we move on bravely to face ours. This song was inspired by the sinking of the Titanic and the story of the legendary fictional couple who were separated forever by the sinking of the ship.

---lyrics---

im staring at a shipwreck underneath the ocean
im staring at a shipwreck underneath the sea
all of our bad sex, all of my fuck ups
all of your compulsions not enough for me

im staring at a shipwreck underneath the ocean
im staring at a shipwreck underneath the sea
all of our bad sex, all of my fuck ups
all of my emotions coming back to me


Jack & Rose by Usatsu (prod. Jbunny)

Jack & Rose by Usatsu (prod. Jbunny)

Relationships start out beautiful... But BE WARNED. Like the venomous bite of an arachnid, love can leave you stuck in a web of truths and drain everything from you. From the dangerous passions of songwriter Usatsu comes a dark ballad the captures the very essence of having ones heart torn out by the one they loved most.

---lyrics---
Fall asleep, shun my emptiness 
Dream a little dream, stare at your success
Pierce your skin, wear your fancy clothes 
Soon someday, you’ll have all of those

In due time (I) might be up for it
Once again let you take the grips
Spread my ash, chew my withered bones
Won't you be, be my black widow?

My black widow
My black widow
My black widow's comin' home!


   written by Usatsu
      produced by Jbunny

Black Widow by Usatsu (prod. Jbunny)

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