Asian Chamber AANHPI Luncheon 2025

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, and now writes regularly for The Guardian, CNN, Slate, and elsewhere. He has written three 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; and Eastern Standard Time: A Guide to Asian Influence on American Culture, and most recently coauthored the New York Times bestselling RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now and THE GOLDEN SCREEN: The Movies That Made Asian America. His first movie as screenwriter, A GREAT DIVIDE, hits streaming platforms in November and the first season of the food journey show he developed and sold with his son Hudson Yang, CRASH COURSE CUISINE, can now be seen on National Geographic. He’s currently writing a reimagined Monkey King graphic novel for the new imprint THE LAB and working with screen legend James Hong on Hong's forthcoming memoir, due out from Simon & Schuster in early 2026.