David Shih

nonfiction/memoir - having immigrated to Texas from Hong Kong as a 1-y.o. with his parents in 1971, the author reflects on his experiences as a perceived outsider on his career path towards becoming a English professor in Wisconsin.

read to p. 64 (maybe a quarter of the book) -- I might try to keep reading just a bit further, but thinking this is more scholarly pontification and analysis than I want to read right now; the preface in particular you may just want to skip. It gets somewhat better in the following chapters--I could plod through it and would probably agree with what I the author is likely getting around to talking about, but I think I might just return this to the library and let the next person on the waitlist have a crack at it.

would recommend instead/in addition: Fae Myenne Ng's Orphan Bachelors

Catherine Ceniza Choy's Asian American Histories of the United States

also Connie Wang's Oh My Mother!, Jane Wong's Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City and Ava Chin's Mott Street, each of which speaks to different experiences falling under the umbrella of "Chinese-American."… (more)