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Interior Chinatown: The novel taking on Hollywood’s Asian tropes – BBC News
This year’s winner of the US National Book Award for fiction explores what it means to be Asian in America.
By Yvette TanBBC News
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image captionThe story plays on the trope of the Chinese character always being the Kung Fu Guy
Willis Wu is not a Kung Fu Guy.
Instead, much to his dismay, the struggling Asian American actor is only ever cast in parts like Generic Asian Man Number One or Background Oriental Male.
He is, however, the main protagonist of the satirical novel Interior Chinatown, which last month won one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the US, the National…
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