“Clarified: Michelle Yeoh and the Asian Actresses Before Her”
Interview with May-lee Chai about Asian American actresses in Hollywood history for Hearst-TV

Indigo Bridge Books event with Belinda Huijuan Tang, Nov. 2, 2022

Yu and Me Books event with Gish Jen, Nov. 15, 2022
Crowdcast replay

FlyLeaf Books Event with Nina de Gramont (The Christie Affair)

Watch May-lee’s conversation from the Tomorrow in Shanghai East Coast Virtual Launch at The Strand Book Store with NYT-bestselling author, Sequoia Nagamatsu (How High We Go in the Dark) about writing complex Asian and Asian American characters, and the uses of science fictional elements in literary fiction. 

Watch May-lee’s San Francisco Virtual Launch via City Lights Book Store with poet Dr. Tonya Foster.

Watch May-lee’s conversation with Melissa Fu for BookPassageTV , talking about literary ancestors, writing against historical erasure and Tomorrow in Shanghai.

May-lee’s musical soundtrack for Tomorrow in Shanghai courtesy of Largehearted Boy:

Here’s a trailer I made for my memoir, Hapa Girl. It has some family photos and a short reading.

(Please ignore the two extra minutes of black at the end of the video. Just couldn’t get it to cut off in iMovie. Oh, well. Home movies.)

Here’s a short (40 sec.) video from the Tiger Girl launch party:

A short video about life in China during World War II and my family’s experiences.

  A video of my father and myself reading and discussing The Girl from Purple Mountain is available on C-Span’s Book TV website here.

Historical footage and background to accompany the English-language translation of the book, The Autobiography of Ba Jin, the famous 20th century Chinese author’s 1934 autobiography, available from the University of Indianapolis Press.

Performed for the Cameron Art Museum exhibit “She Tells a Story” in Wilmington, NC.