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Ada Tseng

Ada Tseng is a writer and editor who has contributed to PRI's Global Nation, XFINITY Asia, NBC Asian America, LA Weekly, Asia Pacific Arts, Audrey Magazine, and more. She hosts the Asian American pop culture podcasts Saturday School and Bullet Train and is the creator of the series Haikus with Hotties. She graduated from UCLA, received her MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington College, and was the Society of Features Journalism’s 2015 Penny Bender Fuchs Diversity Fellow.
Newlyweds Araminta (Sonoya Mizuno) and Colin
Arts, Culture & Media
What happens when you let everyone in the world audition for a Hollywood studio film
Michael (Pierre Png) and Astrid (Gemma Chan)
Media
How to get beyond a tourist fantasy of Singapore
Mother of the groom Eleanor Sung-Young (Michelle Yeoh)
Media
‘Crazy Rich Asians’ is a big win for Asian American representation in Hollywood — but what about Singaporean representation?
Man at dinner table, surrounded by people
Culture
Yes, they came as refugees, but on ‘Queen Sugar’ this family from Vietnam gets to be so much more
Two posters side by side, one original film poster, the other remade with photos of two men in place of actors
Arts, Culture & Media
How ’90s Bollywood movies became cool again for two desis in the US
Three women walking on the sidewalk.
Media
A family of lawyers fought to clear their name. Now their story is in an Oscar-nominated documentary.
Man in sunglasses in dance pose in front of white, brick wall
Arts
He’s the first Asian American dancer in ‘Magic Mike Live’ and his fans are proud of him
Two book cover images.
Books
Remixed book covers imagine a young adult book series that confronts racism
A man in an armor stands alongside other men in armor.
Arts
How ‘bad guy’ roles have evolved for people of color
Two female performers are standing in front of each other holding microphones.
Culture
A mash-up of Asian harvest holidays gets the hip-hop treatment
Man sitting at computer that is rendering film scene, with movie poster for "The Departed" behind
Media
For some in Hollywood, the ‘remake’ is taking on global proportions
Large screen show grainy footage of woman in sari, man in turban. A silhouette of a man standing in front.
Music
Why this musician wants to understand xenophobia today by remembering the past
Woman seated in club with people walking around her
Culture
What to say when you’re Asian American and someone calls you ‘exotic’
Two people in front of large movie poster
Media
With ‘The Great Wall,’ is China buying its way into Hollywood?
Man with beaten face on pavement, black and white still
Media
Justin Chon seeks to fill a hole in the history of the Los Angeles riots
Three guys in front of an old car
Music
How Far East Movement took success into their own hands
Three men on seats on stage, with word ATLANTA behind them
Media
Hashtags might not get your favorite actor the part, but studios do hear your pleas
Man in sunglasses reaches out to crowd, with flashes from photographers
Culture
One of the world’s most famous people has been detained at US airports three times since 9/11 — and still jokes about it
Woman in official-looking room faces mostly men in suits
Global Politics
Want to know what it would feel like to have a woman president? Ask Taiwan.
Portrait of a guy, next to a tree
Culture
Mainstream comic? Hari Kondabolu is changing the definition.
A girl with rainbow colored earring and a T-shirt that reads "LOVE makes a family"
Media
Australian school official banned this film about kids of gay parents, but you can stream it now
Freida Lee Mock talks into a microphone
Media
Ang Lee and George Takei signed the letter, but here’s who wrote it
Chris Rock
Media
However you feel about Chris Rock’s Asian joke, it takes guts to talk openly about race
Three children in tuxedos on stage at the Oscars
Media
What it’s like to be the butt of the joke. One of the kids at the Oscars speaks out.
Four members of the Huang family at a Chinese New Year celebration in the show "Fresh Off the Boat"
Media
Millions of Americans celebrate Lunar New Year, but this episode of ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ will be a network TV 1st
Inside the Mumbai theater, moviegoers look at the screen.
Media
Is Shah Rukh Khan the gateway drug to Bollywood addiction?