9-MAN IN THE NEWS
July 24, 2023, Yahoo!News: “NYC Hosts 9-Man Volleyball Tournament Exclusively for Chinese, Asian Americans”
July 23, 2023, Fox 5 New York: “9-Man Volleyball Tournament in NYC Highlights Cultural Significance”
September 2, 2022, WBUR: “Chinatown’s 9-Man Tournament Takes its Labor Day Showdown to Providence”
April 30, 2020, WGBH: “What to Watch Now: 10 Programs to Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month”
November 27, 2019, PRI’s The World: “The Sport of 9-Man”
October 4, 2019, Los Angeles Times: “The 20 Best Asian American Films of the Last 20 Years”
February 24, 2017, Chinese American Family: “10 Nominees for Best Chinese American Movie”
December 6, 2016, The Associated Press: “Volleyballers vs. Bulldozers: A Chinatown's History at Stake”
September 2, 2016, The Orange County Register: “Weekend Volleyball Tournament was a Lifeline for Early Chinese Immigrants”
April 19, 2016, Vulture: “In Its First Season, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Greatest Legacy Is (Finally) Bringing the Asian Bro to Television”
February 26, 2016, Chicago Public Media's Worldview: “9-Man' Documentary Tells The Story Of Chinatown’s Top Sport”
September 4, 2015, WBUR's Radio Boston: “How Streetball Brought Together a Boston Community”
August 22, 2015, The Boston Globe: “The Rewards of Competition: Ursula Liang's Exploration of Chinatown's 9-Man Volleyball is More Than a Look at Sport”
August 3, 2015, NBC News: “Chinatown's Swagger Celebrated in New '9-Man' Documentary”
May 15, 2015, WNYC's Documentary of the Week: “Streetball, Chinatown Style”
May 4, 2015, NPR's The Takeaway with John Hockenberry: “A Game That Started with Segregation, Now Played with Pride”
May 4, 2015, The New York Times: “Review: ‘9-Man’ Is More Than a Game for Chinese-Americans”
March 11, 2015, Center for Asian American Media Blog: “Ursula Liang: Director of Sports Doc 9-Man”
March 10, 2015, Dig In Magazine: “‘CHOPS’ Talks 9-MAN, Hip-Hop Music and Film Scoring”
November 17, 2014, Angry Asian Man: "Sound and Fury Podcast Episode 16: Ursula Liang”
November 11, 2014, Colorlines: “‘9-man’ Film Explores the Little-Known History of a Chinese-American Sport”
November 10, 2014, Huffington Post: “9-Man Is The Undiscovered Street Sport That Has Flourished In Chinatown For Decades”
November 7, 2014, CBC Metro Morning: “9-Man” (at 20 min mark)
July 18, 2014, CBS Sports Minute with Boomer Esiason: “On 9-Man”
June 12, 2014, Stranger Than Fiction: “Q&A: Filmmaker Ursula Liang on 9-MAN”
April 29, 2014, The Boston Globe: “Newton’s Ursula Liang debuts ‘9-Man’”
April 29, 2014, World Journal: “Premiere of Chinese American Film ‘9-Man’ in Boston Evokes Profound Responses”
April 28, 2014, Reappropriate: “Review: 9-Man Documentary is a Complex, Thought-Provoking Challenge to Asian-American Stereotypes”