How to Use Chopsticks
  

 

 

 

Digital Chopsticks is a monthly webzine focusing on unique aspects of Japanese and Asian culture. The purpose is primarily to entertain, but not mindless entertainment. Digital Chopsticks is mindful entertainment. We hope to be informative and perceptive, but most of all we hope to generate discussion on topics not often in daily conversation. We're looking for passionate yet informed commentary and reaction on our blogs and message boards. We won't pretend to have the answers - often we are not even sure of the questions. That's why we need you to set us straight.

 
 

What we are Not (and a little more of what we are)
Digital Chopsticks is not a promotional website, fanzine, manga rag, or fluffy travel mag. It's not intended only for Asians, Asian Americans, Asia-philes, or wannabes. It's for those of us excited and inspired by looking at alternative perspectives both inside and outside of our own culture.

  

DC is divided into 7 sections
1. Listen - is all about the stuff we hear - records, sounds of nature or the city, even language
2. Learn - covers some of the things we didn't know before. Maybe you knew already.
3. Watch - Focuses on what we can see, movies, art showings, photos, live shows etc. 
4. Walk - takes us to the places we might like to go, and sometimes to places to which we'd prefer not to go.
5. Live - immerses us in culture, lifestyle or simply the experience of being somewhere else.
6. Read - It's not profound anymore to say words take us places that ships cannot. So reading. So just like your mother used to say, reading might actually be good for you.

Each month we will publish a new article, essay, photo essay, online gallery, review, poem or work of fiction in each of these categories…

  
 

… except one.
7. Talk - Talk is your category. That's where we truly want to hear from each other. Ask a question, post a comment, generate some discussion or put us in our place. that's what talking is all about.

 

Digital Chopsticks publishes new issues every month, but you can find the archives of all the categories on the category index page. The Cover page (home page) changes monthly with the release of each new issue. You can find all the current articles listed under the headline "This month's Chopsticks" or you can click directly on any of the headlines on the cover page to go directly to an article.

You'll find that with a little practice Digital Chopsticks is easier than a knife and fork.