![]() ![]() On the one hand, we focus on the personal life of Willis Wu. Even though he’s Taiwanese, he plays a generic Asian in Chinatown. He has a small role in the detective television series Black and White, set in an Asian restaurant called Golden Palace. Because Kung-Fu Guy is the highest level he can reach in Hollywood as an Asian. The main character of Interior Chinatown, Willis Wu, is an actor who plays the generic Asian guy, but he wants to one day become his childhood dream “Kung-Fu Guy”. And reading Willis Wu’s efforts to get rid of this stereotype despite all racism and prejudices was a bit of a challenging experience for me. I’ve been thinking a lot about all the generic Asian guys we come across, all in more or less the same roles and with almost the same lines. When I read these generic Asian guys and their roles, dozens of scenes came to life before my eyes. I think it’s quite ingenious that Charles Yu used films and television shows to recount the experiences of Asian Americans through generic Asian man or Asian beautiful woman types. In fact, towards the end of the book, it is possible to read the decisions made by the United States about Asian immigrants year after year. Interior Chinatown can be summed up as a social satire about how Asian Americans are treated and viewed by the majority of people. ![]()
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