The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.

by Frank Chin

Book Overview

American Book Award winner. Short stories set among the Chinese-American community of Oakland, California. " Chin] writes an oceanic prose teeming with wild images and long surreal passages."--Richard Burgin, New York Times Book Review

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0918273447
• ISBN13: 9780918273444
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Meet Frank Chin, The Writer

Often people say that Frank Chin is an activist. This is true, but we shouldn't forget that he is also a writer. After all, it was his play Chickencoop Chinaman that help open doors for Asian American artists. In this book you will read eight great short stories by Frank Chin. The stories include: "Railroad Standard Time", "The Eat and Run Midnight People", "The Chinatown Kid", "The Only Real Day", "Yes, Young Daddy", "Give the Enemy Sweet Sissies and Women to Infatuate Him, and Jades and Silks to Blind Him with Greed", "A Chinese Lady Dies", and "The Sons of Chan". After reading these stories, you will understand why Chin won the American Book Award.

Entertaining right to the end

If you liked Frank Chin's book Donald Duk, and enjoy the short story collections that are sprouting like weeds these days, you'll like this one. :)And if you liked Maxine Hong Kingston's book The Woman Warrior, and know how much Mr. Chin doesn't like the Mulan spoof Kingston put it, then read the Afterword to this volume (this one alone is a laugh and a half).