Bulletproof Buddhists and Other Essays

"America doesn't want us as a visible native minority. They want us to keep our place as Americanized foreigners ruled by immigrant loyalty. But never having been anything else but born here, I've never been foreign and resent having foreigners telling me my place in America and America telling me I'm foreign. There's no denial or rejection of Chinese culture going on here, just the recognition of the fact that Americanized Chinese are not Chinese Americans and that Chinese Americans cannot be understood in the terms of either Chinese or American culture, or some 'chow mein/spaghetti' formula of Chinese and American cultures, or anything else you've seen and loved in Charlie Chan." --from "Confessions of a Chinatown Cowboy"

Summary

In this collection of six essays, the author chronicles his experiences of America and records the outcome of the people he meets and situations he finds himself in. Included are his arrest as an American spy making his way to Cuba, and meeting Southeast Asian gangs in San Diego.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Chin
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.1998
• EAN: 9780824819590
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-1959-0
• No. of pages: 438
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 214 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 558 g
• Series: Intersections; Intersections: Asian and Pacif
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic