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...title of Gish Jen's witty 1999 collection of short stories was Who's Irish??but the theme, as it has always been in Jen's work, was "who's American?" It's never been a question with a simple answer. Her Chinese immigrants and their children are neither apple-pie success stories nor tragic victims of American assimilation. In Jen's world Chinese parents open up a restaurant, make money, move to the suburbs, argue in Shanghainese, then find their youngest daughter wants to be Jewish and ditch Mandarin lessons for Hebrew. There's no melting...
From 1907--R. E. Gish, captain, W. F. Low, W. Goodwin. E. V. Sherwin, alternate...
...read Gish Jen's article "racial profiling" with great interest. Although she does not believe that racial profiling based on appearance is the right thing to do, this is the rule unfortunately rather than the exception everywhere in the world. Her facial features gave her fellow Chinese in China the impression that she was no different from them, and they were bewildered by her insistence on being American because she was born in that country. I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, and at a conference 15 years ago, I was asked by another participant where I was from. When...
...Gish Jen: Racial Profiling August 18-25, 2003 Issue Past Issues Cool Japan August 11, 2003 Gloria Arroyo August 4, 2003 ----------------- Women in China July 28, 2003 ----------------- Asian Longevity July 21, 2003 ----------------- Hong Kong July 14, 2003 ----------------- Southeast Asia July 7, 2003 ----------------- Kim Jong Il June...
...Gish Jen: Racial Profiling August 18-25, 2003 Issue Past Issues Cool Japan August 11, 2003 Gloria Arroyo August 4, 2003 ----------------- Women in China July 28, 2003 ----------------- Asian Longevity July 21, 2003 ----------------- Hong Kong July 14, 2003 ----------------- Southeast Asia July 7, 2003 ----------------- Kim Jong Il June...