Daniel C. Tsang's Selected Works

Here's a selection of writings and public appearances from "Daniel Le Rouge"

Petitions | Spoken Word | Book Contributions | OC Weekly Reportage | Other Writings | Bibliographies | Subversity & Alternative News Radio Shows | TV Appearances | Citations | Film Credits | Photography Credits | Indexes
Dan demonstrating outside San Francisco Marriott during the American Library Association Conference, May, 2001, in support of hotel workers who are seeking union recognition.

Photo of Dan addressing the Academia and Action gathering on topic of racial profiling May 9, 2001 at UC Irvine in his KUCI T-shirt.

Petitions Signed

I signed the Progressive Librarians Guild-circulated statement opposing the NATO Bombing and another open letter to Pres. Clinton opposing the Iraq Bombing.

Spoken Word

Some of the upcoming events where you can hear me speak are listed at: AWARE Upcoming Events

I was part of a panel of older activists speaking about the lessons from the protests against the Democratic Party Convention in Los Angeles in August, 2000. The panel was part of a "Protest to Survive" gathering at Koo's Cafe in Santa Ana on October 1, 2000.

I spoke Tuesday, April 4, 2000 at Cal State University Northridge on a panel on "Racial Profiling". See flyer for the event. The L.A. Times Valley edition also covered it the next day: Racial Incidents Aired.

I also spoke Tuesday, October 26, 1999 at Asian Pacific Student Programs offices at UC Riverside, on a panel discussing "police accountability".

I spoke Wednesday, November 11, 1998 at Samuelson Pavillion, Occidental College, from 7-9 p.m. on the topic: Police Brutality in California, The Police State.

I also spoke on Asian American Porn at CSU-Northridge's Center for Sex Research-sponsored World Pornography Conference in August, 1998 in Universal City, Ca. A revised paper from my talk is being published in Porn 101: Eroticism, Pornography, and the First Amendment, edited by James E. Elias, Gwen Brewer, Vern L. Bullough, Jeffrey Douglas, Veronica Diehl Elias, and Will Jarvis (Prometheus Press, 1999).

Contributions to Books

  • Media Content Analysis Study, 1974. This is a description of the study, for which Dan processed the codebook. The codebook is available under "Downloads". [Access may be limited to campus users].
  • Alternative materials in libraries, edited by James P. Danky and Elliott Shore. Metuchen, NJ; London: Scarecrow Press, 1982. (Contributor)
  • Alternative Papers: Selections from the alternative press, 1979-1980, edited by Elliott Shore, Patricia J. Case, with the help of ... Daniel Tsang... Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982.
  • Gay and lesbian library service, edited by Cal Gough and Ellen Greenblatt. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1990. (Contributor)
  • Libraries, erotica, pornography, edited by Martha Cornog. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1991. (Contributor)
  • Voices from the underground, edited by Ken Wachsberger. Tempe, AZ: Mica Press, 1993. (Contributor)
  • Sex, cells, and same-sex desire : the biology of sexual preference, edited by John P. De Cecco an David Allen Parker. New York : Haworth Press, 1995. (Contributor)
  • Everything you always wanted to know about Sandy Berman but were afraid to ask, edited by Chris Dodge and Jan DeSirey. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1995. (Contributor)
  • The Asian American encyclopedia, edited by Franklin Ng. New York : Marshall Cavendish, 1995. (Contributor)
  • The Material queer: a LesBiGay cultural studies reader, edited by Donald Morton. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996. (Contributor)
  • Asian American sexualities : dimensions of the gay and lesbian experience, edited by Russell Leong. New York : Routledge, 1996. (Contributor)
  • The gay almanac, compiled by the National Museum & Archive of Lesbian and Gay History : a program of the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, New York. New York: Berkley Books, 1996. (Contributor)
  • The lesbian almanac, compiled by the National Museum & Archive of Lesbian and Gay History : a program of the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, New York. New York: Berkley Books, 1996. (Contributor)
  • The Columbia reader on lesbians and gay men in media, society, and politics, edited by Larry Gross and James D. Woods. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. (Contributor)
  • 华人 同志新读本A New reader on Chinese Tongzhi, edited by John Loo. Hong Kong: Worldson Publications, 1999. (Contributor)
  • Porn 101: Eroticism, Pornography, and the First Amendment, edited by James E. Elias, Gwen Brewer, Vern L. Bullough, Jeffrey Douglas, Veronica Diehl Elias, and Will Jarvis. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Press, 1999 (Contributor)
  • The Cybercultures reader, edited by David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy. New York: Routledge, 2000. (Contributor)
  • The Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, Vol. 2: Gay Histories and Cultures, An Encyclopedia, edited by George E. Haggerty. New York: Garland, 2000. (Contributor)
  • Legacy to Liberation: Politics and Culture of Revolutionary Asian Pacific America, edited by Fred Ho. Brooklyn: Big Red Media; San Francisco: AK Press, 2000. (Contributor)
  • Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment, edited by Steve Louie and Glenn Omatsu. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2001. (Contributor)
  • The Columbia Documentary History of the Asian American Experience, edited by Franklin Odo. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. (Contributor)
  • Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out, edited by Katia Roberto and Jessamyn West. Jefferson: North Carolina: McFarland, 2003). (Contributor)
  • LGBT: Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America, Marc Stein, editor in chief. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. (Contributor)
  • Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary: Completing the Twentieth Century , Susan Ware, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. (Contributor)

    Reportage in OC Weekly

    Selected Writings from OC Weekly, where Dan had been a contributing writer.

  • The Real Lillian Baker: Historical revisionism in our Times, November 29-December 5, 1996, pp. 9-10.
  • Just Do It! The Boycott Nike Campaign Comes To Nike Town, December 13-19, 1996.
  • Twice-Fried Mayor: Westminster's Frank Fry revisits the Vietnam War, December 20-26, 1996, p. 9.
  • Hail to the Chief: And what a relief (Civil Unliberties), January 17-23, 1997, p. 9. [Laguna Beach police chief Neil Purcell's retirement]
  • Friends in High Places: Nondisclosure raises questions of Wilson/Bren relationship, January 24-30, 1997, pp. 9-10.
  • Hasta La Vila: Lead UCI researcher may leave despite approval of gang project (Civil Unliberties), January 31-February 6, 1997, pp. 11-12. [Bryan Vila's secret UCI project]
  • Attacking the Edge: A Rancho Santa Margarita skateboarder strikes back at the master plan (Civil Unliberties), February 21-27, 1997, p. 8.
  • Asian Cinema Kaleidoscope, April 4-10, 1997, p. 39. [Review of "Nostalgia for Countryland" (Vietnam) and other films at Newport Film Festival]. This review has been translated to Vietnamese.
  • Behind the Bashing, April 18-24, 1997, p. 26. [Arthur Dong's "Licensed to Kill"]
  • No Comment:County quietly kills conservative experiment in privatized Social Services, April 18-24, 1997, pp. 13, 15-16. [Nghia Tran's departure from VNCOC]
  • Redbaiting in Little Saigon: Despite his Cold War credentials, Westminster City Council member Tony Lam faces ostracism from the CIA's 'Lost Commandos', April 25-May 1, 1997, p. 10.
  • Out-Bobbing Bob: Sanchez courts Dornan's anti-commie cadre, May 9-15, 1997, pp. 8-9.
  • The East is Read! UCI readies for Asian-American studies, May 23-29, 1997, p. 10. [Vietnamese & Filipino students fight for language classes]
  • Americans for Cloning: Garber dabbles in genetic engineering, June 27-July 3, 1997, p. 10.
  • GREAT No More: But a new gang database is ready to take its place (Civil Unliberties), July 11-17, 1997, p. 10. [The database, now CalGang, tracks at least 14,732 Hispanics, 2,586 Asians, 1,521 whites, 898 blacks, 360 Pacific Islanders in Orange County. There are at least 1,139 photos of individuals. The article scooped an L.A. Times July 14, 1997 piece, "Gang Database Raises Civil Rights Concerns" by Lorenza Munoz.]
  • Double Dipping? Payments to Vietnamese nonprofits probed, August 29-September 4, 1997, p. 10, 13. [IBP's "donations" to VNCOC and Catholic Charities of Orange County for job placements]
  • Party Time: Friends of Bill find big trouble in Little Saigon, September 12-18, 1997, pp. 10, 12. [Current VNCOC staffer and former volunteer accuse VNCOC of politicizing agency, which agency denies]
  • Knee Surgery: Departing chief mends community policing (Civil Unliberties), September 26-October 2, 1997, p. 10. [Departing Garden Grove police chief Stan Knee's legacy]
  • See No Evil: Pete Wilson doesn't want you to see the inside of a jail, October 10-16, 1997, pp. 11-12.
  • Go East, Young Men (and Women): Great Films from the Other Side of the Planet, March 27-April 2, 1998, p. 34. [Reviews of Newport Film Festival Asian films]
  • Garden Grove Police Redux: Ex-chief, Gang Officers Face False-imprisonment Suit (Civil Unliberties), June 19-June 25, 1998, p. 12. [Suit charges Vietnamese immigrant was jailed on flip of coin]
  • Swimming to Vietnam (Sports: Scorecard), August 7 to August 13, 1998, p. 86. [Irvine High swimmers teach street kids in Ho Chi Minh City swimming]
  • UC Spy: CIA recruiters seek applicants at UC Irvine, November 6-12, 1998, pp. 14, 19. This article led to a spoofy editorial written by its editors in the New University about my OC Weekly piece: UCI's secret allegiance with the CIA is uncovered by local media
  • A Dissenter Emerges (Fine Print), February 25-March 4, 1999, p. 16. [UCI Vietnamese American UCI student charges his community with "Vietnamese McCarthyism"]
  • Scars and Stripes: What's behind those yellow flags in Little Saigon, March 5-March 11, 1999, p. 12.
  • Guerrilla in the Midst: The man behind the human-rights rhetoric, March 12-March 18, 1999, p. 16.
  • Beyond Politics: Asian fest films get personal (Film), March 26-April 1, 1999, p. 26. [Reviews of Newport Beach Film Festival's films]
  • Bombay Breakdown (Fine Print), April 23-29, 1999, p. 14. [Travails of "Bombay Boys" at Newport Beach Film Festival this year; frantic reaction to a family walking out after gay character and pickup take off their shirts]
  • DWUS: Driving While a UCI Student (Civil Unliberties), April 23-29, 1999, p. 11. [UCI student leaders meet Irvine's finest]
    The New University editorialized about this issue and cited this article: Maybe all of the inmates happen to be minorities, May 1, 2000.
  • Hearts and Blinders: The propaganda war continues in Little Saigon, April 30-May 6, 1999, p. 13
  • Off Tran's Case: Republican DA plays partisan politics in Little Saigon, May 14-20, 1999, p. 13. [Tran Van Truong's lawyer Ron Talmo seeks to get OC DA ousted from video piracy case]
  • Summer Eats: Westminster, June 25-July 1, 1999, p. 45. [Scroll down to "Westminster" for restaurant reviews]
  • The Few, the Proud, the Spies: Spying on civilians was part of El Toro抯 mission (Civil Unliberties), July 9-15, 1999, pp. 12, 16-17. A reader reacts. A second reader reacts. You can also listen to a KUCI Subversity radio interview, on RealAudio, with two people, Greg Hoffmann and Spence Olin, cited in the story, about UCI's radical past.
  • The Computer Wore Colors (Civil Unliberties), July 16-22, 1999, pp. 12-14. [Is gang membership really going up?]
  • Swimming from Vietnam (Scorecard), July 16-22, 1999, p. 98. [Vietnam's swim team visits Little Saigon undercover]
  • Good Times: 'Remembering' the days when gay clubs were cool with everybody! (Civil Unliberties), January 28-February 3, 2000, p. 12.
  • Eat Cheap... (Food/Feature), March 10-16, 2000, p.26. [Chinese restaurant review section]
  • Ethnic Fare: Foreign Films Survive Newport Festival Shake-up (Film/Feature), March 31-April 6, 2000, pp. 35-37. [Review of films at Newport Beach Film Festival]
  • Show of Farce: Despite trashing books, Vietnamese literature is readily available in Little Saigon (Civil Unliberties), June 2-8, 2000, p. 15. [Call for boycott of Vietnam "propaganda falls on deaf ears]
  • Drug Stink: UCI goes 'deep cover' to bust student for Excedrin possession (Civil Unliberties), July 14-20, 2000, pp. 10-11. Correction [Scroll to end]. A reader reacts. The orginal article was reposted by Cannabis News with added links.
  • Fisting, but not Fistfights: It抯 just another Orange Unified School District meeting (Civil Unliberties), September 15-21, 2000, p. 12.
  • Filtering Flip-Flop? County librarian now touts CyberPatrol (Machine Age), September 29-October 5, 2000, p. 16.
  • Achievement in Music and Throbbing Goat Love... (Best of OC 2000), October 20-26, 2000, p. 38-39, 43. [Ghostwritten reviews of three restaurants, Best Thai, Best Chinese, Best Cuban]
  • Good Cop, Bad Cop: Garden Grove Mayor plays both in re-election bid (Civil Unliberties), November 3-9, 2000, p. 13.
  • Just Declare Victory: Little Saigon Embraces Vietnam Trade (Civil Unliberties), December 1-7, 2000, p. 10.
  • Holy Mackerel!, January 26-February 2001, various pages. I (DCT) contributed over a dozen reviews to the special issue on seafood gastronomy, including a dish offered at an IKEA store. I also get to write that I'm not a "size queen" but liked the large oysters at another eatery.
  • Show Us Your Scars! Anaheim Cops Discover Long-Ignored Law, Enforce It!, March 9-15, 20001, pp. 12-13.
  • Crouching Festival, Hidden Films: Newport Fest Chops Asian Presence, March 23-29, 2001.
  • Subverting Convention Two Festival Entries Challenge Asian Stereotypes, March 30-April 5, 2001.
  • 'I Didn't Do It': Teen's Suit Says She wasn't Principal-biter (Civil Unliberties), April 27-May 3, 2001, 9.
  • Marxist Pinkos! I went to an anti-hate rally, and a political-science class broke out, May 4-10, 2001, 12. See also reaction. More of the same drivel (advice given to me): colon exams.
  • History Vs. Memory: Little Saigon抯 beginnings, May 11-17, 2001, 24. [Review of L.A. Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival films, including Green Dragon, The Flip Side and Everything in Between]
  • Fast Times at Foothill High: Meet Danny Silverman, teen censorware buster, August 17-23, 2001, 16-17.
  • No Queers Here: Here and there, Vietnamese say they抮e not crazy about gays, December 14-20. 2001. On World Values Survey, Vietnam.

  • Taboo Sex in World War II, April 12-18, 2002, 36. [Comedian Dolphy plays Markova (left). Review of Newport Beach Film Festival films, including In the Bosom of the Enemy, Markova: Comfort Gay; Joint Security Area]
  • Human Rights and Wrongs: UC Irvine fest exposes worldwide injustice, May 10-16, 2002, 24.
  • Little Irvine? Little Saigon sees a mainstream future, May 17-23, 2002.
  • All in the Family Pinoyed: Rod Pulido's The Flip Side, November 8-14, 2002, 25. [Film review; KUCI Subversity interview in Realaudio, with director and cast members; film Web-site.] See also some flipped off feedback: Flipped Off [scroll down]. The director also writes in: Flipping the Script; I write back: Ass-kissers are people, too [scroll down].

  • Divine Comedy: Love, life and laughs in the West Bank, March 14-20, 2003, 24. [Review of Divine Intervention. See editorial correction, scroll down.]
  • A Mid-Summer Nightmare: Cultures Clash in A Dream in Hanoi, March 28-April 3, 2003, 31. [Film review]
  • Down in the Dump: Do Minh Tuan exposes life at the bottom in Vietna, April 4-10, 2003, 18. [Interview with director of Foul King]; Realaudio version of longer interview: Subversity interview
  • Behold the Brainy Bad Asses: Justin Lin dares to depict young Asian Americans in a whole new way, April 11-17, 2003, 28-29. [Interview with Better Luck Tomorrow's director]. Note the unhyphenated Asian Americans usage. A correction: The victim went to another school, not Sunny Hills. Realaudio version of full interview: Subversity interview
  • Sanitized for Your Consumption: Saigon, USA white-washes local history, May 2-8, 2002, 28. [Film Review] The review received positive feedback in following issue.

    Other Writings

    In the late 1970s, Tsang edited Midwest Gay Academic Journal, which became Gay Insurgent: A Gay Left Journal. He was also a reporter at the Michigan Free Press (Ann Arbor), and later, a contributing writer at Frontiers (Los Angeles), Orange County Blade (Laguna Beach) and the Guide (Boston). A freelance writer, Tsang's articles have appeared in alternative and mainstream media. Alternative media include: CovertAction Quarterly (Washington, D.C.), UCInsider (Irvine), Small Press (New York), The Public Eye (Chicago), Change Links (North Hollywood), RicePaper (Irvine), AsianWeek (San Francisco), Policing by Consent (Syracuse, N.Y.), Gay News (London), Frighten the Horses (San Francisco), Bridge Magazine (New York), Seven Days (New York), SRRT Newsletter (Chicago), India Currents (San Jose, CA), Alkalima (Ann Arbor). Mainstream media include: Far Eastern Economic Review (Hong Kong), Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News, Viet Bao Kinh Te (Westminster, CA), Small Press (New York), Phladelphia Daily News, Phoenix (Ariz.) Gazette, Albany (N.Y) Times Union, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Casper (Wy.) Star-Tribune, Buffalo (N.Y.) News, Capital Times (Madison, WI), Houston Chronicle, and the Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo).

    Articles in other publications:

    • Anarchistic Advice to LAPD, Los Angeles Times, August 12, 2000, B9 (Home edition); B11 (Orange County edition)

      This essay was quoted the next day in Hilary MacKenzie, "Anarchists' meet turns heat up in already tense L.A.," Calgary Herald, August 13, 2000; and in Hilary MacKenzie, "Democrats, anarchists meet in steamy L.A.: LAPD on high alert as party fears repeat of 1968 Chicago riots," Ottawa Citizen, August 13, 2000: " 'We don't want to be cogs in a global capitalist machine,' said Daniel Tsang, an anarchist at the University of California, Irvine. '(We) abhor the capitalist values that dominate conventional politics.' "

    • China's first AIDS, gay activist, San Jose Mercury News, July 9, 2000, C4
      [Perspective section; photo of Wan Yan Hai [Wan Yanhai] in 1998 © copyright Daniel C. Tsang]
    • CIA Pays A Visit to UCI, Alkalima, November/December 1999, p. 14

    • Bibliographies

    Dan has compiled a bibliography on UN weapons inspector Hans Blix in May 2005.

    Earlier, Dan co-compiled a bibliography on the author of the notorious "torture memoes", John Choon Yoo in February 2005.

    Dan also compiled a bibliography in January 2005 on the principal drafter of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, Viet Dinh: Viet Dinh D. Dinh....

    With a colleague, Dan compiled a bibliography on Janusz Reykowski, a political psychologist and former Polish Politburo member, who spoke at UCI in February, 2003: Janusz Reykowski...A Selective Bibliography.

    Dan also compiled a bibliography on Theodore J. Lowi, a specialist on American government, and a Nation magazine contributor. He spoke at UCI in February, 2002: Theodore J. Lowi... A Selective Bibliography.

    Dan also compiled a bibliography on Ervin Staub, a specialist on genocide. He spoke at UCI in February, 2001: Ervin Staub...A Selective Bibliography.

    Dan co-compiled a bibliography on Angela Oh, the activist lawyer who served on Pres. Clinton's Race Commission, when she spoke at UCI in October, 2000: Angela E. Oh... A Selective Bibliography

    In May, 2000, Dan also compiled a "Select Bibliography on the Japanese American Relocation Era," for the checklist accompanying the UCI Main Library's exhibit, The Legacy of Silence: A Japanese American Story, about the life of poet and activist Mitsuye Yamada.

    Subversity & Alternative News Radio Shows

    Dan has hosted Subversity, a weekly public affairs interview program on KUCI, 88.9 FM since fall, 1993. The program is now also broadcast weekly on the Web on Fridays from 5-6 p.m. via kuci.org. There is also a RealAudio archive of recent shows and a press release archive.

    He also hosted in 2000-2001 Alternative News on KUCI. The program featured newscasts from such groups as the striking Pacifica freelancers (Free Speech Radio News) or the National Radio Project.

    In late Fall, 2000, his wrote an essay, Resistance is Fertile: Video & Radio Activism on the Net, for the KUCI Web-site.

    TV Appearances

  • Fox News, KTTV, February 15, 1996, 7 p.m., on racial profiling
  • Headline News, CNN, Wednesday, January 1, 1997, 7:05 p.m. ET, on depo provera.
  • UPN News 13, KCOP-TV [Los Angeles], Wednesday, January 1, 1977, 10:16 p.m. on depo provera (same CNN footage)
  • CNN Morning News, CNN, Thursday, January 2, 1997, 10:17 a.m. ET, on depo provera.
  • UPN News 13, KCOP TV, Saturday, January 4, 1997, 10:19 p.m., on depo provera.
  • Headline News, CNN, Sunday, January 5, 1997, 7:08 p.m., on depo provera.
  • Orange Prime Story, OCN, Tuesday, March 24, 1998, 11:19 p.m., discussing his CIA file.
  • Life and Times, KCET, Monday, February 22, 1999, 6 p.m., discussing Little Saigon protests.

    Citations to Tsang

    Tsang is the 2000 winner of the Media Award from Orange County Cultural Pride, the group that sponsors the gay festival in Irvine in August.

    Tsang is also the 2000 winner of the Jackie Eubanks Memorial Award, from the American Library Association's Alternatives in Print Task Force. The award comes with a $500 check. See the official press release and a mention in OC Weekly [scroll to end] and in the ICPSR Bulletin, Fall, 2000, page 7 (click on menu item: Two Official Representatives Receive Award).

    Tsang has been cited in many papers, including: Orange County Register | Los Angeles Times. His articles have also appeared in Carta (Rome).

  • Ex-Paley Librarian's Index May Be His Last if Senate Passes Bill Today, by Andrew Andrews, Temple News, November 12, 1981, p. 1. [About my indexing of CovertAction Information Bulletin; Paley Library is at Temple University, Philadelphia]

  • Librarian Follows FBI's Anti-Gay Trail: UCI Employee Collects Papers Exposing Tactics, by Steven Silberman, Orange County Register, October 10, 1990

  • Outcast, Miscast, Recast: A Documentary History of Lesbians and Gay Men at the University of Michigan, by Tim Rezloff, Appendex E in: From Invisibility to Inclusion: Opening the Doors for Lesbians and Gay Men at the University of Michigan, prepared by The Study Committee on the Status of Lesbians and Gay Men (Ann Arbor: Affirmative Action Office, University of Michigan, 1991), pp. 110-134. ["Daniel Tsang, author of a pair of articles about the purges, characterized the city as "one place where town and gown conspired to conduct a ferocious witch-hunt against homosexuals" (p. 112) and "Daniel Tsang, a graduate student who played a leading role in GAU, taught a course entitled "Politics of Lesbian and Gay Liberation" for Winter term of 1976. He co-taught, with Mary Spooner, "Lesbian and Gay Experience" for Winter term, 1977. Each course drew about thirty students" (p. 120).]

  • Asian-Americans Organize AWARE, by Bill Billiter, Los Angeles Times, September 29, 1993, Orange County edition, Metro, B2.

  • UCI Lecturer, Mentor, Out 'to Change Society,' by David Reyes, Los Angeles Times, March 14, 1994, Orange County Edition.

  • Wilkening Discusses Scandal and gets Applause, By Michelle Nicolosi and Peter Larsen, Orange County Register, June 29, 1995 [We weren't all applauding; I asked some questions]

  • Racism and Racialized Discourse on Asian Youth in Orange County, by ChorSwang Ngin, California Politics & Policy, 1997, pp. 93-102.

  • Asian Gangs: A Bibliography by Binh P. Le (Washington, DC: Community Policing Consortium, n.d.)

  • CIA Double Checks its FAQs (Daily Briefing) by Brian Friel, GovExec.com, January 7, 1998.

  • Prying Eyes were Watching UCI's Library Activist: Daniel Tsang battled the CIA for a keeping file on him, and the agency backed off, by Kimberly Kindy, Orange County Register, January 25, 1998, p. 1.
    Excerpts: "When the editors of magazines such as Covert Action asked the CIA whether the agency was spying on them, the spooks said: Don't worry. We're spying on Daniel Tsang instead."

    "Tsang is a University of California, Irvine, librarian. No spy, no terrorist, just a 48-year-old guy who occasionally does dangerous things such as indexing articles for magazines that espouse the idea that spying on U.S. citizens is wrong."

  • University California student gets prison sentence for Internet hate crime, by Sarah Lubman, The News Times Computer News, May 5, 1998 (originally in San Jose Mercury News): "Observers who had followed [Richard] Machado's case greeted its end with mixed emotions. Dan Tsang, a UC-Irvine librarian and campus activist, said the government should have dropped the case after the mistrial. 'This guy was not an aggressive person,' Tsang said of Machado. 'He needs help, not a prison term.'

  • Gay & Pround by Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud, Michigan Daily, February 12, 1999.

  • Police Tame Gang Raids to Be Good Neighbors by Daniel Yi, Los Angeles Times, Orange County edition, April 4, 1999, A1+. [Yi calls me a "police watchdog"]

  • Basic Skills Workbook: Topic -- Gangs and Stereotypes [Longman's workbook using one of my op ed pieces as writing lesson for high school students]

  • Library Juice, November 3, 1999, picks my home page as "Home page of the Week". In addition, the WWW News Resource Page is described as follows:
    "Daniel Tsang, alternative research guru at UC Irvine, has a page of news resources at http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~dtsang/netnews.htm..."

  • Racial Profiling Incidents Aired by Annette Kondo, Los Angeles Times, Valley edition, April 5, 2000. An ACLU NewsWire the same day picked up on this account: CHP Officer Blasts Racial Profiling at DWB Forum in Southern California.

  • Panel discusses racial profiling, by Jessica Marks, Daily Sundial [CSU Northridge], April 5, 2000

  • Academia Takes Action on Brutality, by Lauren Korduner, New University [UCI], May 14, 2001. Photo of Dan addressing the gathering.

    • Film Credits

  • Mothers, Daughters, Sisters: A Film About Breast Cancer. Pasadena: Pacific Film Currents, 1999.
    Stills of Dan (at KUCI studio) appear in a segment about Robyn Shikiya; Dan and Robyn worked on RicePaper together; Dan also hosted a memorial service on his Subversity show on KUCI after Robyn passed away of breast cancer.
  • Fated Vocation (Duyen Nghiep), Nguyen Vu Chau, director. Hanoi: Viet Nam Feature Film Studio, 1998. [Also known as "Ties of Profession"]
    Dan helped with the English-language subtitling; see his review in the OC Weekly of March 26-April 1, 1999, p. 26.
  • Licensed to Kill, Arthur Dong, director. Los Angeles: DeepFocus Productions, 1997,
    Dan provided archival photography.

    Photography Credits

  • Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Jan-March, 1999). Photos of Hong Kong during Handover, 1997: pp. 61, 62, 64, illustrating article by Alvin Y. So, "Commentary: 1997 and Democratic Compromise in Hong Kong," pp. 59-65.

    Indexes

    Dan compiled the indexes for the following, here with live links to the UC Irvine's ANTPAC online catalog for holdings or to publisher page:

  • Alternative Press Index (ongoing, of selected serials).

  • CovertAction Information Bulletin (to issues 1-12), CovertAction Information Bulletin, 14/15 (1981).

  • Deadly Deceits : My 25 Years in the CIA, by Ralph W. McGehee (Sheridan Square Publications, 1983). Republished by Ocean Press, 1999.

  • Destiny Betrayed : JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case, by James DiEugenio (Sheridan Square Press, 1992).

  • From Tribal Village to Global Village: Indian Rights and International Relations in Latin America, by Alison Brysk (Stanford University Press, 2000).

  • Let Justice Be Done: New Light on the Jim Garrison Investigation, by William Davy (Jordan Publishing, 1999). [Author thanks me in Acknowledgments for "such an exceptional job indexing this work" (p. xxvi). The credit belongs to him; he has done extraordinary research into the JFK assassination. For more info. on the book, incl. ordering details, check: LJBD.

  • The Rise of Candidate-Centered Politics: Presidential Elections of the 1980s, by Martin P. Wattenberg (Harvard University Press, 1991).

  • Secret Contenders : the Myth of Cold War Counterintelligence, by Melvin Beck (Sheridan Square Publications, 1984).

  • Terrorism : Roots, Impact, Responses, edited by Lawrence Howard (Praeger, 1994).