In the eyes of mid-twentieth-century white America, ?Aiiieeeee!? was the one-dimensional cry from Asian Americans, their singular expression of all emotions?it signified and perpetuated the idea of Asian Americans as inscrutable, foreign, self-hat...
American Book Award winner. Short stories set among the Chinese-American community of Oakland, California. " Chin] writes an oceanic prose teeming with wild images and long surreal passages."--Richard Burgin, "New York Times Book Review"...
"The 11-year-old hero of Mr. Chin's inventive, energetic first novel is educated in his Chinese heritage through a series of astonishing dreams about working on the Central Pacific Railroad in 1869."--"New York Times Book Review" "Doubt not the abili...