From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.
Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: he's merely Generic Asian Man. Every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO an...
From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.
Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: he's merely Generic Asian Man. Every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He's a bit player here too. . . but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the highest aspiration he can imagine for a Chinatown denizen. Or is it?
After stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he's ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family, and what that means for him, in today's America.
Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes—Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu's most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.
作者简介
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CHARLES YU is the author of three books, including the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, which was a New York Times Notable Book and named one of the best books of the year by Time magazine. He received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, and was nominated for two WGA awards for his work on the HBO series, Westworld. He has also written for ...
CHARLES YU is the author of three books, including the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, which was a New York Times Notable Book and named one of the best books of the year by Time magazine. He received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, and was nominated for two WGA awards for his work on the HBO series, Westworld. He has also written for shows on FX, AMC and HBO. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a number of publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate and Wired. His next novel, INTERIOR CHINATOWN, will be published by Pantheon in January 2020.
2020年11月25日
Act I: Generic Asian Man, 第7页
WILLIS WU (ASIAN) ACTOR Skills:
Kung Fu (Moderate Proficiency)
Fluent in Accented English
Able to do Face of Great Shame on command (查看原文)
First, you have to work your way up. Starting from the bottom, it goes: 5. Background Oriental Male 4. Dead Asian Man 3. Generic Asian Man Number Three/Delivery Guy 2. Generic Asian Man Number Two/Waiter 1. Generic Asian Man Number One (查看原文)
...you somehow feel that your oppression, because it does not include the original American sin—of slavery—that it will never add up to something equivalent. That the wrongs committed against your anc......you somehow feel that your oppression, because it does not include the original American sin—of slavery—that it will never add up to something equivalent. That the wrongs committed against your ancestors are incommensurate in magnitude with thosecommitted against Black people in America......Your oppression is second-class. 💔(展开)
"a stage-set China that does not exist". I would give it a 9 if it's written in the '70s, now it's a meagre 7. Not sincere or sarcastic or self-mocking enough, still eager-to-please. But it's a fun re..."a stage-set China that does not exist". I would give it a 9 if it's written in the '70s, now it's a meagre 7. Not sincere or sarcastic or self-mocking enough, still eager-to-please. But it's a fun read. "There are a few years when you make almost all of your important memories. And then you spend the next few decades reliving them." ---you bet (展开)
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4 有用 Gabrielle_lu 2020-11-08 13:10:47
...you somehow feel that your oppression, because it does not include the original American sin—of slavery—that it will never add up to something equivalent. That the wrongs committed against your anc... ...you somehow feel that your oppression, because it does not include the original American sin—of slavery—that it will never add up to something equivalent. That the wrongs committed against your ancestors are incommensurate in magnitude with thosecommitted against Black people in America......Your oppression is second-class. 💔 (展开)
2 有用 叶也眠 2021-05-04 12:43:25
叙事是最大的亮点，新颖且能将隐喻自然融入。开篇的审视与戏谑读来有点刻薄我差点就弃了，看到后面渐入佳境，时有触动。总的来说就是把一个传统的问题漂亮有力地又问了一遍。
1 有用 值得表扬 2020-03-18 03:40:36
一部美国华人血泪史 用非常特别的方法叙述出来
5 有用 花岛仙藏 2020-11-21 20:40:34
"a stage-set China that does not exist". I would give it a 9 if it's written in the '70s, now it's a meagre 7. Not sincere or sarcastic or self-mocking enough, still eager-to-please. But it's a fun re... "a stage-set China that does not exist". I would give it a 9 if it's written in the '70s, now it's a meagre 7. Not sincere or sarcastic or self-mocking enough, still eager-to-please. But it's a fun read. "There are a few years when you make almost all of your important memories. And then you spend the next few decades reliving them." ---you bet (展开)
1 有用 triangle 2021-11-14 00:38:16
讀不下去。
0 有用 LAIKA 2024-06-10 14:08:44 美国
因为题材加一🌟。很多表达聪明漂亮，根本原因是写得有感情。终章的落点无力感好强：社会上事业上不被认可的Chinaman最后回归家庭感受最平凡的幸福……因为太过现实失去了一位还在做梦的读者（我）。
0 有用 54321 2024-06-05 13:52:22 北京
Enough whining
1 有用 Jerez 2024-04-13 12:23:10 美国
除了提到model minority的片段，整本书看着像八十年代的作品。转念一想，八十年代的时候大家还在Amy Tan呢，这本书拿到2021年的national book award也就不奇怪了。在bubble里呆久了的人生似乎就是这样，critical theory解构解构解构，睁眼看看现实已不知今夕是何年。Asian American的身份构建是一个无解的问题：不是Asian，不是Americ... 除了提到model minority的片段，整本书看着像八十年代的作品。转念一想，八十年代的时候大家还在Amy Tan呢，这本书拿到2021年的national book award也就不奇怪了。在bubble里呆久了的人生似乎就是这样，critical theory解构解构解构，睁眼看看现实已不知今夕是何年。Asian American的身份构建是一个无解的问题：不是Asian，不是American，作为身份认同的东西便成了Western gaze下那些无人认领的oriental元素和一句“为什么我还不是美国人”的呐喊。As an outsider 我是觉得，身份政治趁早滚出历史舞台 一切就都解决了。 (展开)
0 有用 米开朗 2024-01-25 16:18:15 美国
你以为Chinatown 廉租房里的人只不过是老生常谈的stereotype，你以为你这种移民和那些亚裔早已不同，但读到后面越来越觉得从前现在、唐人街的里里外外都是那一样的痛，太过于真实以至于一边疯狂划线一边不敢细看。
0 有用 dw 2024-01-05 10:55:53 加拿大
剧本的形式很有趣