American Born Chinese
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- ISBN13: 9780312384487
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Indie graphic novelist Gene Yang’s intelligent and emotionally challenging American Born Chinese is made up of three individual plotlines: the determined efforts of the Chinese folk hero Monkey King to shed his humble roots and be revered as a god; the struggles faced by Jin Wang, a lonely Asian American middle school student who would do anything to fit in with his white classmates; and the sitcom plight of Danny, an All-American teen so shamed by his Chinese cousin Chin-Kee (a purposefully painful ethnic stereotype) that he is forced to change schools. Each tale works well on its own, but Yang engineers a clever convergence of these parallel tales into a powerful climax that destroys the hateful stereotype of Chin-Kee, while leaving both Jin Wang and the Monkey King satisfied and pleased to be who they are.
Yang skillfully weaves these distressing, regularly humorous tales together to make a masterful commentary about race, identity, and self-acceptance that has earned him a spot as a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People. The artwork, rendered in a chromatically cool palette, is crisp and clear, with clean white space around center panels that sharply focuses the reader’s attention in on Yang’s achingly familiar characters. There isn’t an adolescent alive who won’t be able to tell to Jin’s wish to be a name additional than who he is, and his gradual realization that there is no better feeling than being comfortable in your own skin.–Jennifer Hubert
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I am married to a CBC (Shanghai) and I thought this was tasteless – how it made the top 50 list for 2006 (which is why I bought it/wasted my $) amazes me – must have been an inside job.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
By even acknowledging the stereotypes, as the book does, it is perpetuating the stereotypes. You all should go read some post-colonial critics.
The–well I hesitate to call it a book, since it’s really a graphic novel, but for ease of writing I’ll call it a book–book has a character that reinforces the stereotypes; and, although it does show the mean spiritedness of people/society, the character, which I’m not going to call by name, so fervently embodies all of persons stereotypes that it forces the reader to view similar characters/persons through the same lens. You run in to similar problems with fantastic works of literature as well–yes, I am adage that this is absolutely not a fantastic work–like Heart of Darkness and As I Lay Dying.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
My son likes graphic novels. This book had brilliant reviews. So, I bought two copies, one for my American born half-Chinese son, and one for myself. I must say that this book perpetuates ancient-fashioned Asian stereotypes. As a ex- middle school teacher, I would never recommend this for readers younger than college age who will not be influenced by the racist stereotypes. This is one of the worst graphic novels I’ve evern seen.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I know what the leader was TRYING to do, I just also know that the leader failed. In an attempt to show how offensive Asian stereotypes can be, the leader makes an Asian stereotype that is horrifyingly offensive (even to nonasians, such as myself). This character’s name is “Chink-ee”.
I don’t reflect much more needs to be said about Chink-ee.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Some people mentioned it is offensive to Christians. Ha, I didn’t even catch that because I’m not religious. Some say it’s racist. I disagree. The book merely points out some of the things the main character experiences while he is in school which is racism! But, I really expected a lot more from this book. You see the main character suffering from racism, low self-esteem agreed the racism, and some additional things, but persons cannot be the only problems an American Born Chinese would face. How about home relationships with parents and relatives? So much emphasis is on his school life, there is nothing about home and relatives. The main message is just be yourself which is nice, but does that really require over 200 pages to say this? This is a quick read agreed it’s a graphic novel and the pages are very tiny, not your average 8-1/2 x 11. I finished this in like an hour. The artwork is really simple, clean-cut drawings. Nothing spectacular and very mediocre. Writing, well there is not that much writing. So agreed lack of tale, lack of excellent writing, lack of quality artwork, I really can’t recommend this book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5