Asian American Representation in the Media

NOTE: this piece is part of a series discussing and highlighting Asian-American representation in light of the media success of Jon Chu’s “Crazy Rich Asians,” “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” on Netflix, and Kelly Marie Tran’s essay in the New York Times.

Movies

  1. Crazy Rich Asians

  2. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

  3. The Joy Luck Club

  4. Mississippi Masala

  5. Bend it Like Beckham

  6. The Wedding Banquet

  7. The Big Sick

  8. Harold and Kumar

  9. Better Luck Tomorrow

  10. Everything Before Us

  11. Mulan

  12. Rush Hour

  13. Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior

  14. Charlie’s Angels

  15. The Spy Next Door

  16. The Killing Fields

  17. Sayonara

  18. The Karate Kid

  19. Big Trouble in Little China

  20. Columbus

  21. Big Hero 6

  22. Up

  23. Star Wars: The Last Jedi

  24. The Sixth Sense


Television

  1. Fresh Off the Boat

  2. Dr. Ken

  3. Kim’s Convenience

  4. Superstore

  5. The Good Place

  6. The Mindy Project

  7. Alex Inc.

  8. Elementary

  9. All American Girl

  10. American Dragon: Jake Long

  11. Nikita

  12. Sanjay and Craig

  13. Quantico

  14. Andi Mack

  15. Master of None

  16. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

  17. The Night Of

  18. Selfie

  19. Hawaii 5-0

  20. Poe Party

  21. Brown Girls

  22. Emma Approved

  23. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

  24. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

  25. Glee

  26. Community



Music

  1. Awkwafina

  2. Mitski

  3. Phillipa Soo

  4. Lea Salonga

  5. Kimiko Glenn

  6. Shoba Narayan

  7. Japanese Breakfast

  8. Allegiance

  9. Miss Saigon

  10. Run River North

  11. Abhi the Nomad

  12. Katherine Ho

  13. Ne-Yo

  14. The Black Eyed Peas

  15. Bruno Mars

  16. Far East Movement

  17. Yo Yo Ma

  18. Rich Brian

  19. 88rising

  20. BTS


Writing

  1. Ocean Vuong

  2. Amy Tan

  3. Fanny Choi

  4. Aman Batra

  5. Kevin Kwan

  6. Fatima Askar

  7. Jhumpa Lahiri

  8. Salman Rushdie

  9. Maxine Hong Kingston

  10. Bharati Mukherjee

  11. Jessica Hagedorn

  12. Ha Jin

  13. Akhil Sharma

  14. Yiyun Li

  15. Viet Thanh Nguyen

  16. Linda Sue Park

  17. Thanhha Lai

  18. Kristin Chang

  19. Jenny Zhang

  20. Wendy Xu

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