Author

Publication

1998 - University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, Hawaii

Language

English

Word Count

107,750 words, Guess

Page Count

431 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing1020893
  • Goodreads1118318

Classifications

  • DDC305.895/1
  • LCCE184.C5 C473 1998

Description

Frank Chin is perhaps the most instantly recognizable voice in Chinese American writing today. A self-proclaimed "transcendent Chinaman pagan heathen barbarian," Chin searches out (or stumbles on) the right people and situations, vividly recording the outcome in distinctively American terms. Here are six of his best essays, spanning the past forty years. Making his way across the U.S. to Cuba, Chin is arrested as an American spy some time between Castro's revolution and the missile crisis. He meets Ben Fee, the man who integrated San Francisco, and is introduced to Southeast Asian gangs and culture in San Diego. He discovers Chinese bachelor society along the California-Mexico border and travels to Singapore, where he speculates on the fear and suppression of Chinese culture among Chinese Singaporeans. Back at the home front, he encounters the new white racism along Interstate 5 during the Gulf War.

Subjects

Topics

BiographyChinese AmericansChin, Frank, 1940-Social life and customsChinese Americans -- Biography.Chinese Americans -- Social life and customs.

People

Frank Chin (1940-)

Series Statement

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