According to @Joysauce, fewer women in East Asia and Southeast Asia are choosing to have children — Taiwan has the world's lowest birth rate and South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau and Japan aren't far behind (or ahead, depending on your point of view). Jiaying Grygiel takes a look at the societal and economic reasons for these steeply falling birth rates. “People are making a perfectly rational decision about childbearing under the circumstances,” says Stuart Gietel-Basten, a professor of social science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Charlie Chan is described by Katie Gee Salisbury as a "caricature plucked from the imagination of a white man." For The Believer, she writes about how in film and TV, Chan has been depicted by Asian men just three times, and goes in search of those actors to solve a Charlie Chan mystery of her own.