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| Original Title: | American Born Chinese |
| ISBN: | 1596431520 (ISBN13: 9781596431522) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://us.macmillan.com/americanbornchinese/GeneYang |
| Characters: | Jin Wang, Wei-Chen Sun, Suzy Nakamura, Amelia Harris |
| Literary Awards: | Michael L. Printz Award (2007), James Cook Book Award Nominee (2007), Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Graphic Album - New (2007), National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature (2006), One Book One San Diego for Young Adult (2014) |
Gene Luen Yang
Paperback | Pages: 240 pages Rating: 3.88 | 68534 Users | 7682 Reviews
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| Title | : | American Born Chinese |
| Author | : | Gene Luen Yang |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 240 pages |
| Published | : | September 5th 2006 by First Second (first published September 1st 2006) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Young Adult. Comics. Fiction. Fantasy. Graphic Novels Comics. Teen |
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All Jin Wang wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds that he's the only Chinese American student at his school. Jocks and bullies pick on him constantly, and he has hardly any friends. Then, to make matters worse, he falls in love with an all-American girl... Born to rule over all the monkeys in the world, the story of the Monkey King is one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables. Adored by his subjects, master of the arts of kung-fu, he is the most powerful monkey on earth. But the Monkey King doesn't want to be a monkey. He wants to be hailed as a god... Chin-Kee is the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, and he's ruining his cousin Danny's life. Danny's a popular kid at school, but every year Chin-Kee comes to visit, and every year Danny has to transfer to a new school to escape the shame. This year, though, things quickly go from bad to worse... These three apparently unrelated tales come together with an unexpected twist, in a modern fable that is hilarious, poignant and action-packed. American Born Chinese is an amazing rise, all the way up to the astonishing climax--and confirms what a growing number of readers already know: Gene Yang is a major talent.Rating Appertaining To Books American Born Chinese
Ratings: 3.88 From 68534 Users | 7682 ReviewsCriticism Appertaining To Books American Born Chinese
Intimate, engaging story that anyone can relate to. Well done.4/5stars
I liked Gene Luen Yang's The Shadow Hero a lot, so I had to finally check out the author's most well-known graphic novel, American Born Chinese. Both books are about the immigrant experience, a topic difficult to write about in ways that are (more or less) politically correct but not too obvious and predictable. In both cases I had my doubts early on as to whether Yang would be able to pull it off, but both times he eventually won me over with surprising plot twists and a flood of well-observed
Read for my young adult literature class.A unique message and vivid writing - I loved how he was able to weave together three stories in such a short story!
One thing that stood out most is that the author focused on exploring the inner self-conscious shame of the immigrant or non-Western, instead of making his main characters perfect, full of mature pride for his identity. In fact, the students around Jin Wang and Wei Chen were portrayed pretty realistically too - some of them were disgusting bullies seeing only one stereotypical image of the Asian, some were more subtly bigoted, and some others don't treat them any different. Although I'm Asian,
this book is the perfect antidote to the "graphic novels aren't real books" crowd's poison. it takes full advantage of the medium (lgm with the local boy scout troops), and just runs with it. this story could not have been told as well or as broadly using a more traditional narrative structure. and at the end, there is a perfect collapse - the three storylines streamline so perfectly into one message about cultural acclimatization and race-shame. and why it is bad. but not in a preachy way. it
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