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Andrew Lam

Andrew Lam is an editor with New America Media and author of Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora, and East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres. His latest book is Birds of Paradise Lost, a short story collection, was published in 2013 and won a Pen/Josephine Miles Literary Award in 2014.

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Dec 10, 2017
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Op-Ed
Education & Youth

Teacher’s Image Takes a Hit in America

Something about our fast-paced, super consumerist society seems to have robbed the teaching vocation the respect it deserves, disposing that once concrete and tender human relationship to a…
by
Andrew Lam,
SpeakOut
January 16, 2015
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Interview

The War in Afghanistan Formally Ends, the War Informally Goes On

Fariba Nawa is an Afghan-American journalist and author of “Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords and One Woman’s Journey Through Afghanistan.” She was interviewed by NAM editor,…
by
Andrew Lam,
New America Media
January 5, 2015
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Op-Ed

Mother

Andrew Lam discusses dealing with a parent with dementia.
by
Andrew Lam,
SpeakOut
May 10, 2014
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Op-Ed

The ‘Bamboo Ceiling’: Hollywood Shuns Asians, While New Media Embraces Them

Racist parodies of Asians somehow remain okay and acceptable in the imaginations of producers and writers.
by
Andrew Lam,
New America Media
January 27, 2014
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Op-Ed

Yes, Indeed, San Francisco Is Made of Gold

These days, indeed, the city seems to belong to the highest bidders and the dogged homeless who, as if taking revenge, crowd the sidewalks in every neighborhood.
by
Andrew Lam,
SpeakOut
January 16, 2014
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Op-Ed

For New Generation of American Expats, East Asia Beckons

After losing a lucrative job in 2001 in San Francisco, Ted decided, instead of moving home, to live in Hong Kong, where he fell in love.
by
Andrew Lam,
New America Media
January 10, 2014
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News

Letter From Cairo: Arab Winter and Revolutionary Regrets

It’s a phrase you hear often in Egypt. “Before the revolution,” locals say, things were bad but manageable.
by
Andrew Lam,
New American Media
December 22, 2013
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Op-Ed

Moon Goddess and Jade Rabbit: How Science and Spirituality Commingle

Each year during the mid-Autumn Moon festival, a pastry shop near our house in Saigon, Vietnam, would display the figure of a dancing goddess in a flowing dress…
by
Andrew Lam,
New America Media
December 10, 2013
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News Analysis

The Invisible Refugees – Internally Displaced People

They are part of a growing population of refugees that are often without international support, a sub-group of people whose basic needs are rarely addressed by the global…
by
Andrew Lam,
New America Media
November 14, 2013
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Op-Ed
War & Peace

A Nostalgic America, Haunted By Ghosts

The America that believed in technology as a solution to all things has become almost a century later a landscape where ghosts comfortably dwell.
by
Andrew Lam,
New America Media
October 31, 2013
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