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• What the phở?<\/b><\/a><\/font>
Thursday, November 01, 2007 <\/i><\/font>
By Nguyen-Khoa Thai-anh<\/i><\/font>
Once just a dish in Vietnam, this soup travels everywhere. <\/font>
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• Old art intrigues young performers<\/b><\/a><\/font>
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 <\/i><\/font>
Story and Photos By Nguyen-Khoa Thai-Anh<\/i><\/font>
SAN JOSE — Michelle Nguyễn is sitting on the stage floor, her back to her audience, her torso draped with a blue gossamer silk tunic, sheer under the light. <\/font>
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• How long will Vietnamese human rights flutter in the wind?<\/b><\/a><\/font>
Thursday, May 24, 2007 <\/i><\/font>
There is a story in the Daoist tradition about a man named Zhuanzhou who dreamed of changing into a butterfly fluttering about. When he awoke, he did not know whether he was that butterfly dreaming he was the man or the other way around. <\/font>
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• Seeing \'Bolinao 52\'?<\/b><\/a><\/font>
Friday, April 13, 2007 <\/i><\/font>
By Nguyen-Khoa Thai-Anh<\/i><\/font>
Prepare yourself for a powerful message. <\/font>
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• On relationships: Men, through the female gaze<\/b><\/a><\/font>
Thursday, December 28, 2006 <\/i><\/font>
By Nguyen-Khoa Thai-Anh<\/i><\/font>
When Laura Mulvey, a feminist film theorist, coined the term “The Male Gaze” in 1975, writing in “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” — using psychoanalytic theory that sees man in control and the woman as the object of his fantasy — she was perhaps reacting to the long-held view of a male-dominated society. Movie directing then was mostly the sole preserve ...<\/font>
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• On relationships: The male gazes under the female\'s watchful eyes<\/b><\/a><\/font>
Wednesday, January 03, 2007 <\/i><\/font>
By Nguyen-Khoa Thai-Anh<\/i><\/font>
If we consider the man as the instigator who controls his environment, are we consciously deciding that the male gaze can trace its roots to the beginning of human existence, when courtship began with the male eyeing his prey, deciding which female suits his fancy and his best chance at success, and the female just his hapless victim? <\/font>
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• Our love brightens some otherwise bleak days<\/b><\/a><\/font>
Thursday, October 26, 2006 <\/i><\/font>
By Nguyen-Khoa Thai-Anh<\/i><\/font>
In the stillness of the coming winter, let me entice you to find some quiet time after school and work to reflect on our Vietnamerican reason of being. <\/font>
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• A trip back in time<\/b><\/a><\/font>
Thursday, September 14, 2006 <\/i><\/font>
Story and photos by Nguyen-Khoa Thai-Anh<\/i><\/font>
Visiting Qui Nhơn – and some vacation reading – invoke memories of days past. <\/font>
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• The end of the rope, or dreaming of a better future?<\/b><\/a><\/font>
Thursday, June 15, 2006 <\/i><\/font>
By Nguyen-Khoa Thai-Anh<\/i><\/font>
Who knows from a personal vantage point what might drive a mother, albeit some time a young person, to abandon her child like that? <\/font>
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• Where will my favorite person(s) go?<\/b><\/a><\/font>
Friday, March 31, 2006 <\/i><\/font>
By Nguyen-Khoa Thai-Anh<\/i><\/font>
After the conversation, my mind raced back to 1987, 1988 when we were young, and I and about a dozen Vietnamese students, fresh off the boat, were at this junior high school in Florida. <\/font>
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