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FRANK CHIN (1940 - )
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Asian American
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Dorothea Oppenheimer
Chin is a critically acclaimed playwright, novelist, essayist and political activist living in Los Angeles. His works include the stage plays The Year of the Dragon and The Chickencoop Chinaman, the novels Donald Duk and Gunga Din Highway, a volume of short stories entitled The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co., and his most recent collection of essays, The Bulletproof Buddhist. In literary circles he is especially remembered as one of the co-editors of the influential anthologies aiiieeee! and The Big aiiieeee! which helped establish the study of Asian American Literature.
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America More Or Less
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written with Baraka And Silko, music Greco, lyrics Weinstein
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San Francisco 1976
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American Peek-A-Boo Kabuki, World War Ii And Me
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Los Angeles 1985
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Chickencoop Chinaman, The
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Documentary filmmaker Tam Lum comes to Pittsburgh to rekindle an old friendship with Kenji, a fellow boxing fan, while researching the life of a black boxer and former light heavyweight champion they both admired as boys in another city, another time.
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New York 1972
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University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1981 -
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Chinatown Mortuary
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Flood Of Blood: A Fairy Tale
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Fred Eng's Chinatown Tours
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Gee, Pop!
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San Francisco 1974
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Lullaby
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written with Silko from book by Silko
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San Francisco 1976
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Oofty-Goofty
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Year Of The Dragon, The
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Chin's play barges through the comfortable stereotypes of the Asian American. When first produced in 1974, the play created an enormous stir and has had a profound impact on a generation of young Asian American writers. "The language is frequently strong, and the bitterness, even when wrapped in some very funny comedy, is unrelenting." --New York Times.
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New York 1974
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