Jeff Yang
Jeff Yang | |
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| 楊致和 | |
Yang at Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival in 2023 | |
| Born | 1967 or 1968 (age 56–57) |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Spouse |
Heather Ying
(m. 2002; div. 2013) |
| Children | 2, including Hudson Yang |
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| Traditional Chinese | 楊致和 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 杨致和 | ||||||
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Jeff Yang (Chinese: 楊致和; born 1967 or 1968) is an American writer, journalist, businessman, and business/media consultant who writes the Tao Jones column for The Wall Street Journal. Previously, he was the "Asian Pop" columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. He is an expert on Asian American pop culture and is the co-author of RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now (2022) with Philip Wang and Phil Yu and The Golden Screen: The Movies That Made Asian America (2023).