Jeff yang biography
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Jeff Yang
American writer, journalist, businessman, and consultant
Jeff Yang (Chinese: 楊致和; born c. 1967/1968)[1] is an American writer, journalist, businessman, and business/media consultant who writes the Tao Jones column for The Wall Street Journal.[2] Previously, he was the "Asian Pop" columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. He is an expert on Asian American pop culture and is the co-author of RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now (2022) with Philip Wang and Phil Yu[3] and The Golden Screen: The Movies That Made Asian America (2023).[4]
Early life and education
[edit]Yang was born to a Taiwanese American family. He graduated from Harvard University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology.[5]
Career
[edit]Yang has written a number of books related to Asian popular culture, including Once Upon a Time in China: A Guide to the Cinemas of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action (with Jackie Chan), and Eastern Standard Time: A Guide to Asian Influence in American Culture, from Astro Boy to Zen Buddhism.
In the comics genre, he has written Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology and co-wrote the second gr
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Jeff Yang
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- Asian-American Author & Journalist
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- Head of Digital Intelligence Lab at the Institute for the Future
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Jeff Yang Speaker Biography
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
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Jeff Yang – Newspaper Editorialist, Cultural Critic, and Beaming Dad
Brooklyn, NY
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