Writer Wesley Yang has been the talk of town this week for his 11-page piece in New York magazine questioning why Chinese and other Asians don't succeed once they're out of school and much of his intriguing piece doesn't just simply apply to Asian-Americans--the same could be said of Chinese who remain in China. more ›

The short film Ha Ha Ha America (watch it here), which recently appeared at the Sundance Film Festival, bills itself as a "translated harangue from China to the U.S.A. that laughs at our missteps." Are the Chinglish subtitles that serve as narrator for this 17-minute masturbatory farce really a translation of some nationalistic Chinese rant? Doubtful. Does the message come from China at all? Again, doubtful. The director is named Jon Daniel Ligon, and he apparently attended the University of Michigan in the 1980s. We gather that the movie was Ligon's way of issuing a wake-up call to the American government. But the movie, admittedly amusing at first in a cheap way, displays a very simplistic world-view, only a partial understanding of U.S.-China relations and the butchering of several "facts." The movie insults both Chinese people and Americans. Maybe the filmmakers figured that made it OK? more ›