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  2. Interior Chinatown takes the form of a screenplay to follow the story of Willis Wu, an Asian American actor of Taiwanese descent. He laments the one-dimensional, stereotypical roles he’s stuck playing on Black and White, a police procedural show.

  3. PS3625.U15 I58 2020. Website. www.charlesyuauthor.com /book /interior-chinatown. Interior Chinatown is a 2020 novel by Charles Yu. It is his second novel and was published by Pantheon Books on January 28, 2020. [3][4][5][6] It won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. [7] The novel was also longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for ...

  4. Interior Chinatown examines Hollywood’s history of casting Asian actors as racist, stereotypical characters to make a broader point about the link between systemic racism, media representation, and identity. Hollywood’s portrayal of Asian Americans has been controversial, its history fraught with offensive stereotypes, “yellowface ...

  5. Charles Yu’s novel Interior Chinatown (published in 2020) was a New York Times bestseller and won a National Book Award. The novel is categorized as Historical Chinese Fiction and Asian American Literature, but it has a fair amount of humor too.

  6. Jan 27, 2024 · Interior Chinatownby Charles Yu, a remarkable work of Chinese Fiction and Asian American Literature, brilliantly integrates humor into a tale that unfolds uniquely as a screenplay, chronicling the life of Willis Wu, a Taiwanese American actor.

  7. Jan 28, 2020 · Infinitely inventive and deeply personal, exploring the themes of pop culture, assimilation, and immigration—Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet. 288 pages, Hardcover.

  8. Written in the form of a screenplay, Interior Chinatown centres on the trials and travails of Willis as he tries to break into Hollywood. Set in a fictional Chinatown, the story follows...

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