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Recorded in Tainan, Taiwan, James and Dan have a conversation with illustrator and aspiring mangaka Steffi Shew! Steffi shares his journey as an artist as well his personal exploration of cultural and gender identity.

HIGHLIGHTS:

- Steffi is a Taiwanese American artist who is an aspiring mangaka from Florida.

- James met Steffi at their language school in Taiwan.

- Classes for his US college were online so he was able to take his classes remotely in Taiwan.

- Started his manga journey reading Ranma 1/2 and works by Clamp.

- Currently creates works based on existing intellectual property like Detective Conan, but aims to draw more original works.

- His quarantine hotel was much nicer than James'.

- Went to Taiwan for 6th grade in order to learn the language and culture.

- Grew up in a diverse, college town, not indicative of most of Florida.

- Due to screen time restrictions at home, had a lot of time growing up to draw.

- Frequently went with dad to the library and read a lot of manga there.

- Doesn't like the "fan service" in manga (i.e. sexualized imagery particularly geared towards male patrons).

- Really likes Fullmetal Alchemist.

- Considers self-publishing.

- "Detention" a Taiwanese video game, helped Steffi realized that they could draw manga that is closer to their own cultural experience.

- Discussion of transgender identity.

LINKS:

- Steffi’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sohhsu/

- Detention trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mJQ_LH2n0k

LANGUAGE CORNER

Mandarin: 

門診 - ménzhěn - out patient facility

家庭醫療 - jiātíngyīliáo - family medicine

閨蜜 - guīmì - best friends (females only)

Japanese:

仲間 - nakama - ally, colleague

親友 - shinyuu - best friends

Neopronouns: Non-binary pronouns.

fae, faer

ze, zir

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Yin & Young EP57 - Young in Quarantine (Taiwan, Feb 2021)

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Recorded February 2021 in Taipei, Taiwan, James (aka Young) shares his experience of what it’s like in a quarantine hotel on the last day of his quarantine. The pandemic situation has changed drastically since the time of recording, with Taiwan now reporting an average of 513 COVID-19 cases for the last week of May 2021, a huge shift from the 1 to 2 cases a day in February. Taiwan is now in stage 3 out of 4 COVID alert, with all public gatherings and indoor restaurant seating cancelled.

Life can change so quickly. Though many of the circumstances referenced in the podcast have changed, it still remains a personal snapshot of what life is like at the time and some of the thoughts going through our heads.

Highlights:

• James goes over the process of traveling to Taiwan during the pandemic: 14 days of quarantine (not including the arrival day), 7 days of “self-management.”

• James and Dan compare and contrast how Taiwan and the U.S. are handling COVID.

• How to distract yourself during quarantine: Attack on Titan.

• What James is looking forward to after quarantine: martial arts, restaurants, dating…

• James shares some of his habits that keep him sane: gratitude journaling, meditation, working out…

• Food is way cheaper in Taiwan, but the cost of living and average income is lower too.

• Quarantine makes you face yourself.

• Having a dream is a beautiful thing, but if you don’t have one, having simple goals are great too.

LANGUAGE CORNER

• F.I.R.E. - financial independence, retire early.

• Mandarin -

  • 隔離 - gélí - quarantine

  • 防疫 - fángyì - epidemic prevention

• Japanese

  • 取りあえず - toriaezu - for now

  • ワクチン - wakuchin - vaccine

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Yin & Young EP56 - Paul Hoi - Experimental Landscape Photographer and Visual Artist

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Dan and James are back with an enlightening chat with artist Paul Hoi! Paul shares his background, his artistic passions, and some of his thoughts about being Asian in America.

Highlights:

- Paul Chan by birth, but goes by Paul Hoi so as not to be mistaken for Paul Chan the art critic. 

- Is bad with naming his artwork so sometimes he just numbers them.

- James and Paul met while working at the Apple store. Both did a lot of customer service Mandarin and Cantonese translations, respectively.

- Came to the U.S. as an immigrant child from Hong Kong. As a child, he tried hard not to stand out and sought solitude.

- Parents supportive even in his artistic pursuits. They made it clear to his sister and him growing up that they should not have to worry about money.

- Has done a number of odd jobs: dog walker, property management, art gallery work.

- Working at an art gallery, he realized he disliked the business side of art.

- Learned different techniques from art class, but not a fan of the structured learning of art.

- Began as an illustrator, which eventually led to photography. Is now is branching out into CGI.

- For Paul, the most time consuming part of creating an art piece is conceptualizing what to make.

- Likes to study space, landscapes, shapes in his work. Wants to create places that he wishes exist in real life.

- Discussion about the pathos of Chinatown and how Asians have had to become self-reliant.

LANGUAGE CORNER

Spanish: Copia de seguridad - secure back up

Mandarin:

雲碟 - yún dié - cloud drive

夜景 - yèjǐng - nightscape

Japanese:

アプリ - apuri - applications

七転び八起き - nanakorobi yaoki - Fall down seven times, get up eight.

Follow Paul Hoi at:

https://www.instagram.com/paul_hoi/

https://www.instagram.com/desertfutures/

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Yin & Young EP55 - Lillian So - Transformation Coach

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Yin & Young are back with a great conversation with transformation coach Lillian So! Lillian shares her journey of self discovery and eventual path into helping others live their best life.

 

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Lillian So is the daughter of Korean immigrants and grew up in a very ethnically diverse part of Chicago.

• Started career in fitness before moving to current career of helping people transform their lives (Transformation Coach).

• Became self aware at a really young age due to criticisms from relatives and family situation.

• Lillian and Yin & Young check in on where they are in their life right now.

• Lillian discovered at an early age her ability to facilitate others to become the best they can be.

• Chats about her alienation with a specific Christian Korean American community but finding a connection with Koreans in Korea.

• Describes how she has collected a team of mentors/healers/spiritual leaders in her life.

• Discussion shifts to tensions between the black and Asian communities in the U.S. Lillian shares her family’s experience doing business in a predominantly black neighborhood.

• Current projects: writing a couple of books this year.

 

LINKS - Lillian can be reached directly through her…

• Website: https://meetlillianso.com/

• FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/meetlillianso/

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meetlillianso/

LANGUAGE CORNER:

Korean: 관상 gwansang - face reading. 사주 saju - Four Pillars of Destiny (Mandarin: 四柱 sìzhù)

Mandarin: 算命 suànmìng - fortune telling.

Japanese: 占い uranai - fortune telling.

 

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Yin & Young EP 54 - Rachel Lo - Struck CEO & Co-Founder

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In this episode we chat with the Struck CEO & Co-Founder, Rachel Lo! She shares her journey coming from a secular, technical background to developing an astrology-based dating app. Even if you're an astrology skeptic (like James), there still definitely something to be gained from this discussion.

Rachel's message to skeptics: "Consider why astrology makes you so uncomfortable? Is it really harming you/other people, or is it just that you’re unfamiliar with it? Also: try reading your birth chart and see how it resonates with you!"

 

HIGHLIGHTS:

-       Rachel grew up in the South Bay of LA and went to UC Berkeley for engineering. - Worked at Apple and other tech companies for a few years

-       Didn't believe in astrology at first, but the inequities in the workforce made Rachel consider that the world isn't concrete and filled with more nuance.

-       Met her co-founder after renting a house in SF with others working at Apple.

-       Struck designed to make experiences more meaningful and fun, it's based off astrological compatibility.

-       Dating apps have a similar playbook for launching apps, but the pandemic disrupted that.

-       Struck was in the Top 10 lifestyle apps in the Apple App Store.

-       James initially hesitant to have Rachel on as a guest due to his skepticism of astrology. - Parents immigrated from Hong Kong and met in NY

-       Struck is rooted in Western astrology (Hellenistic/Greek).

-       Parents were supportive of Rachel starting Struck.

-       Rachel breaks down James's and Dan's astrological chart

-       Had issues with the Apple App Store due to their restrictions on astrology apps.

-       Dating apps were engineered for people to continue to date, i.e. endless swiping. Struck aims to change that.

 

LINKS:

• Struck: https://www.struckapp.com/

• Struck IG: https://www.instagram.com/struck.app/

• Struck TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@struckapp

LANGUAGE CORNER:

Mandarin:

- 相親 - xiāngqīn - blind date

- 紅娘 hóngniáng (lít. red woman) / 媒人 méiren - matchmaker

Cantonese: - 飲茶 - yám chà - Yum Cha, lit. drink tea, traditional Cantonese brunch with tea and dim sum.

Japanese:

- イケ面 - ikemen - good-looking guy

- ギャル - gyaru - slang word for "gal", a Japanese subculture for woman who are tanned, have dyed hair, colored contacts, and other fashion trends.

 

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Yin & Young EP 53 - Musician Strike Three: Movies, Music, and the Asian American Moment

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In this episode, Yin & Young chat with young musician James Huang aka Strike Three of Strike it Rich Records (SIR Records). We discuss Asian American representation in film and music, what it’s like to be an Asian American high school student, and Strike’s journey into making music.

HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Strike connected with us through Young's sister.

• Strike wants to see more Asian American representation in the media.

• He grew up in the Bay Area and went to private schools that were predominantly white.

• The new Asian American identity is one where they had to define their values and who they are for themselves.

• His goal is create positive role models for Asian Americans.

• Strike's recent style is geared towards making more chill, fun to listen to music.

• Was exposed to different music throughout his life due to parents being music lovers.

• Strike It Rich music label is about empowering young Asian American artists.

• His role models were found in music (Kanye West, J Cole) but didn’t have Asian American role models until recently.

• Looks up to China Mac and supports the “They Can’t Burn Us All” movement: Asian Americans and non-Asian allies rallying against anti-Asian racism.

• Is starting his own Asian American Youth group GenAZN.

LINKS:

• Strike Three’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsthethirdstrike/

• Strike Three’s music on Spotify

• Strike it Rich Records: https://threeoverthree.ueniweb.com/, IG: @strikeitrichrecords

• GenAZN: Student-run grassroots movement advocating the rights, empowerment, and diversity of this generation's Asian-Americans.: https://www.instagram.com/genazn_/

LANGUAGE CORNER:

• Mandarin:

  • 生於憂患死於安樂 - shēng yú yōuhuàn sǐ yú ānlè - lit. life comes from calamity, death comes from comfort, i.e. growth is borne from challenges, idleness from being too comfortable.

  • 量子糾纏 - liàngzǐjiūchán - quantum entanglement.

• Japanese:

  • 浮世絵 - うきよえ - ukiyo-e - literally: pictures of the floating world. Edo-period woodblock prints. Mandarin reading: 浮世絵 fúshìhuì: 浮世 in Buddhism means the world of the living, 絵 means drawing.

  • 残業 - ざんぎょう - zangyou - overtime (work).

• Russian:

  • Извините, я плохо знаю русский - Izvinite, ya plokho znayu russkiy. - Sorry, I don’t speak Russian well.

  • давай - davai - come on (can be term of encouragement).

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Yin & Young EP52 - Election Night 2020

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Happy Inauguration Day! On this special day, we’re releasing an episode we recorded back on November 3rd, election night 2020. It marked the 4 year anniversary of Yin & Young the Podcast. We’re joined by special guests Darren Kwan and Valerie Soe and the four of us commiserate over the anxieties about the election and frustrations with the Trump administration. It’s an interesting listen given how things have turned out.

HIGHLIGHTS: 

• James got confronted by some lady at Dunkin Donuts for being Asian.

• Levels of Asian cultural etiquette may lead to Asians being passed over in the U.S.

• Asians/Asian Americans need to code switch to adapt to non-Asians who don't have the same outlook/values.

• Who needs to take responsibility for the current situation (e.g. the pandemic)?

• Structural changes need to be done in the American education system.

• Briefly touched upon the deaths of Sean Connery and Chadwick Boseman.

• Running down the proposition votes.

• Recent favorite shows:

  • Dan has been watching "Letterkenny"

  • Valerie recommends, via the San Diego Asian Film Festival: “76 Days” and “The Paper Tigers.”

• James has been watching "Terrace House.”

LANGUAGE CORNER:

• Mandarin:

  • 候選人 (hòuxuǎnrén) - candidates

  • 選舉 （xuǎnjǔ) - election

• Taiwanese:

  • 不錯 - bue bai - not bad

• Japanese

  • 大統領 (daitōryō) - president (nation)

  • 社長 (shachō) - company president

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Yin & Young EP051 - Terrace House Boys & Girls in the City w/ Nicole McLendon

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Happy Holidays Everyone! In this episode, our guest is screenwriter and Terrace House fan, Nicole McLendon. Nicole was a fellow intern with James at a development house. The topic of this episode revolves around Terrace House, an unscripted Japanese reality TV show on Netflix and Yin & Young’s go-to program during the pandemic.

We will be covering Boys & Girls in the City which was the first season available on Netflix and is the second season of the Terrace House franchise. If you have not seen the Boys & Girls in the City, we recommend you check it out first, because this episode has spoilers!

Highlights:

• Nicole recently graduated and now works at an entertainment law firm. She hopes to get paid for screenwriting in the near future.

• James, Nicole, and Dan explain what brought them to Terrace House.

• The show is not a true reality show even though it declares itself an unscripted show. We go through the premise, cover the panelists, and the members of the show.

• We go in-depth into major events and relationships in the season such as Dream Police, the Meat Incident, Arman’s bromances, and more.

• We question how real the show is and how the "unscripted" disclaimer allows them to make the show appear like a reality show rather than something that has an outline or directed scenes.

• Favorite cast members and couples.

• Disclaimer: as an audience, we only see a short, edited glimpse of who the people on the show are. It’s important to not be too judgmental of the cast.

Terrace House Japanese (テラスハウスの日本語) - 

• 告白 - こくはく - kokuhaku - confession of love, to ask someone to be your boyfriend/girlfriend.

• 仕様がない - しょうがない - shouganai - it can’t be helped, there’s no other way

• 意気地なし - いくじなし - ikujinashi - coward, loser

• 目茶 - めちゃ - mecha - excessive, extreme

• 超 - ちょう - chou - super, totally

• やばい - yabai - 1. awful, 2. slang: terrific, amazing

• 翼 - つばさ - tsubasa - wings (name of a cast member on Opening New Doors)

Links:

• Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80067942

• James’s article about Terrace House: https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2133941527449/terrace-house-an-introduction-and-a-constructed-reality?s

• Terrace House cast member Hana Kimura passes away: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/24/world/asia/hana-kimura-aew-dead.html

• Terrace House Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/terracehouse/

NOTE: This episode features videos clips from the show that belong to Fuji TV & Netflix as well as the images you see now if you’re watching on Youtube. The intro and outro song is “Slow Down” by the band Lights Follow.

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Yin & Young EP050 - Emi Higashiyama - Taiwanese Language, History, Identity

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In this episode, James and Dan chat with Emi Higashiyama about the Taiwanese language and history of the Hokkien dialect family. Emi Higashiyama is a historic preservationist, specializing in Japanese colonial architecture in Taiwan and multicultural/multilingual aspects of Taiwanese heritage issues.

Highlights:

• 2:48 Emi’s cultural background is a complex mix of Taiwanese, Japanese, and American influences.

• 11:52 Language and identity often are closely tied to each other.

• 28:00 Hokkien is present throughout Southeast Asia, with different forms and variances.

• 33:23 Language, dialect, and accent are all different from each other.

• 39:00 Discussed how different races and cultures become “trendy” and “popular” in certain countries, leading to idealization (e.g. U.S. and Japanese culture in Taiwan).

• 44:57 Brief history of linguistics in Taiwan: indigenous languages, Hokkien, Hakka, Japanese, Mandarin.

• 47:15 Taiwan is like a melting pot due to its history of back and forth migration and colonial rule by the Japanese and Chinese.

• 51:55: Emi quizzes Dan to see if he can figure out the Japanese equivalent to Taiwanese words. Taiwanese and Japanese have common words because of the Japanese colonial era in Taiwan.

• 1:13:00 Emi’s shares the etymology of the Japanese sounding, but uniquely Taiwanese phrase あたまコンクリ (atama konkuri).

• 1:25:55 Discussed the suppression of the Taiwanese language under the KMT to today’s increasing interest in learning Taiwanese.

• 1:30:20 Final thoughts: go learn languages! Don’t treat it as a “foreign” language.

 

Language Corner (1:41:31):

Japanese （日本語) -

• ちんぷんかんぷん - “that’s Greek to me!” or “I can’t make heads or tails of this.” From the Chinese phrase: 聽不懂看不懂 (tīng bù dǒng kàn bù dǒng) meaning “I can’t understand what you’re saying or writing.”

• ボンネット- bonnetto - car hood. From the word “bonnet."

• クラクション - kurakushon - car horn. From the word “klaxon."

Hakka （客家話) -

• ng3 ho4 (汝好) - 你好 - how are you?

• an4 zii4 se (恁仔細) - 謝謝 - thank you!

• siit bau4 mang (食飽吂）- 吃飽了嗎？- did you eat yet?

Links:

• Emi’s links:

  • Photo documentation project of Japanese colonial era architecture in Taiwan: https://www.instagram.com/japanesecolonial/

  • Curated reading list on Taiwan’s history: https://medium.com/@emihigashiyama/how-to-become-an-expert-in-taiwan-history-94a89e225ea7

  • Newsletter (exclusive access to Emi’s work in Taiwan): https://japanesecolonial.substack.com/subscribe

• Learn Taiwanese with Bite-size Taiwanese: https://bitesizetaiwanese.com/

• Learn Japanese with Japanese by Chunking: www.youtube.com/c/japanesebychunking

[Notes prepared by Emi’s intern Esther, edited/added to by James.]

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Yin & Young EP049 - Shannon Tetteh - Qigong, George Floyd, White Supremacy

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Recorded during the nationwide George Floyd protests, we chatted with Shannon Tetteh–a graduate of Fisk University (a historically black university), a certified massage therapist, and a current doctorate student in traditional Chinese Medicine.

HIGHLIGHTS:

• 00:00 Different methods of making Dit Da Jow (folk remedy for external injuries). Recently made a tincture to prevent hair loss and strengthen bone density.

• 04:10 Shannon and James met in Oakland at a Wudang West Qigong (Chi Kung) class taught by David Wei.

• 05:00 Moved around growing up; now based in Chicago. Part of a start-up combining cannabis with Chinese herbal medicine.

• 10:50 Getting his first education in Black history at Fisk and seeing the deep psychological harm of using white American or white British as the default in film (e.g. Gods of Egypt 13:17).

• 18:42 Discussion of "White Supremacy."

• 29:29 Thoughts on the murder of George Floyd.

• 41:30 Anime led Te to explore the martial arts. When he does have kids, plans to teach them what he’s learned. Has studied Wudang Qigong, Iron Body, and wants to study Five Elements Kung Fu.

• 51:00 How Qigong can help the black community.

• 58:15 The police started as slave patrols in the U.S.

• 1:09:10 Should we reform or completely defund the police?

• 1:18:52 America has an imbalance of Yin & Yang with the norm for America being the whites on top. Change is happening though.

Martial Arts Tips (1:34:51):

• Video Link: Qigong lung strengthening exercise.

• Sleep is super important. The body needs rest for proper liver, kidney function.

• Martial arts gives self defense tools, but also heightens situational awareness and how to better carry yourself.

Related links:

• Shannon’s website: Golden Palm and Needle.

• Wudang West (Oakland) website.

Books Mentioned:

• Chi Gong: The Ancient Chinese Way to Health by Paul Dong

• The Body Electric by Robert Becker

• The writings of Manly P. Hall

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

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