Bulletproof Buddhists and Other Essays / / Frank Chin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Chin, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2023]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (438 p.)

“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”

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- I Am Talking to the Strategist Sun Tzu about Life When the Subject of War Comes Up -- Confessions of a Chinatown Cowboy -- Bulletproof Buddhist -- Lowe Hoy and the Strange Three-Legged Toad -- A Chinaman in Singapore -- Pidgin Contest along I-5 -- Editor's Note