Jeff Yang

Jeff Yang has been observing, exploring, and writing about the Asian American community for over thirty years. He launched one of the first Asian American national magazines, A. Magazine, in the late Nineties and early 2000s, was a pioneering culture critic on Asian and Asian American media and entertainment for the Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle and Wall Street Journal. He is now a featured contributor for CNN and can be heard frequently on NPR shows like Pop Culture Happy Hour and Code Switch. Yang has authored four books—Jackie Chan’s New York Times bestselling memoir I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action; Once Upon a Time in China, a history of the cinemas of Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Mainland; Eastern Standard Time: A Guide to Asian Influence on American Culture, the New York Times bestselling RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now; and most recently, The Golden Screen: The Movies That Made Asian America.

He lives in Los Angeles, CA.