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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aChin, Frank _eautore
245	1	4	_aThe Confessions of a Number One Son : _bThe Great Chinese American Novel / _cFrank Chin; ed. by Calvin McMillin.
264		1	_aHonolulu : _bUniversity of Hawaii Press, _c[2015]
264		4	_c©2015
300			_a1 online resource (280 p.)
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tEditor's Acknowledgments -- _tIntroduction -- _tPrologue -- _t1. Maui, the Valley Isle -- _t2. The Daughter of Charlie Chan -- _t3. My Old Man -- _t4. Charlie Chan -- _t5. Edgar Allan Poe -- _t6. Moby Tom -- _t7. The All-Oriental Bambi -- _t8. Georgia on My Mind -- _t9. Charlie Chan on Maui -- _t10. Bruce! -- _t11. To Die in Chinatown -- _t12. The Chinaman -- _tEpilogue -- _tAbout the Author and Editor
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aIn the early 1970s, Frank Chin, the outspoken Chinese American author of such plays as The Chickencoop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon, wrote a full-length novel that was never published and presumably lost. Nearly four decades later, Calvin McMillin, a literary scholar specializing in Asian American literature, would discover Chin's original manuscripts and embark on an extensive restoration project. Meticulously reassembled from multiple extant drafts, Frank Chin's "forgotten" novel is a sequel to The Chickencoop Chinaman and follows the further misadventures of Tam Lum, the original play's witty protagonist. Haunted by the bitter memories of a failed marriage and the untimely death of a beloved family member, Tam flees San Francisco's Chinatown for a life of self-imposed exile on the Hawaiian island of Maui. After burning his sole copy of a manuscript he believed would someday be hailed as "The Great Chinese American Novel," Tam stumbles into an unlikely romance with Lily, a former nun fresh out of the convent and looking for love. In the process, he also develops an unusual friendship with Lily's father, a washed-up Hollywood actor once famous for portraying Charlie Chan on the big screen. Thanks in no small part to this bizarre father/daughter pair, not to mention an array of equally quirky locals, Tam soon discovers that his otherwise laidback island existence has been transformed into a farce of epic proportions. Had it been published in the 1970s as originally intended, The Confessions of a Number One Son might have changed the face of Asian American literature as we know it. Written at the height of Frank Chin's creative powers, this formerly "lost" novel ranks as the author's funniest, most powerful, and most poignant work to date. Now, some forty years after its initial conception, The Confessions of a Number One Son is finally available to readers everywhere.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650		0	_aChinese Americans _zCalifornia _zSan Francisco _vFiction.
650		0	_aChinese Americans _zHawaii _zMaui _vFiction.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / General. _2bisacsh
700	1		_aMcMillin, Calvin _ecuratore
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856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780824854553
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824854553
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