Jeff Yang

Columnist

The Wall Street Journal

Jeff Yang writes the weekly column Tao Jones for the Wall Street Journal Online, and is a regular contributor to WNYC radio, as a pundit on Friday Follow panel on PRI's "The Takeaway" and as a correspondent for "The Brian Lehrer Show."

Prior to joining the Journal, for seven years, Yang wrote Asian Pop, a biweekly column on Asian and Asian American media, entertainment, technology and culture for the San Francisco Chronicle. He was the founder of aMagazine: Inside Asian America, which grew into Asian America's largest and most influential English-language media institution, and of aOnline.com, one of the first Asian American content and community sites on the web, and is the author of a number of bestselling books, including Eastern Standard Time; I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action (the international action hero's official autobiography); Once Upon a Time in China; and the new graphic novel collection, Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology. Volume two of Secret Identities is scheduled for a Fall 2012 release.

Yang lives in Brooklyn, NY.