English 468/568: Reading Experiments

An NPR interview with Bonnie Tsui, author of "American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods"

Yu, Charles. The Cruel Plot Twist in the Asian American Story. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 28 March 2021, D-6.

Tsui, Bonnie. “The End of Chinatown.” Atlantic, vol. 308, no. 5, Dec. 2011, pp. 17–18.

An article about Erving Goffman, a legendary sociologist of the 20th century and author of "The Presentation of Self," which is quoted in "Interior Chinatown."

Willmore, Alison. What Was the Asian American Character Actor? Vulture, New York Magazine 26 March 2021, https://www.vulture.com/article/asian-american-character-actors.html.

A documentary of 81-year-old artist Frank Wong who has spent the past four decades recreating his fading memories by building extraordinarily detailed miniature models of the San Francisco Chinatown rooms of his youth. This film takes the journey of one individual and maps it to a rapidly changing urban neighborhood from 1940s to present day.

This documentary film brings together a fascinating portrait of actors, directors, writers, and iconic images to show how the Chinese have been imagined in Hollywood movies.