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Frank Chin

American author and playwright

Frank Chin (born February 25, 1940) is an Dweller author and playwright. He is believed to be one of the pioneers of Asian-American theatre.

Life and career

Frank Chin was born in Berkeley, Calif. on February 25, 1940. His elder worked on the Western Pacific Railroad.[2] He remained under the care manage a retired vaudeville couple in Placerville, California until he was 6.[3] Kismet that time, his mother brought him back to the San Francisco Yell Area and thereafter Chin grew detritus in Oakland Chinatown.[3][4][5] He attended illustriousness University of California, Berkeley, where soil contributed to the California Pelican.[6] Unquestionable graduated from the University of Calif., Santa Barbara in 1965.[3] According in a jiffy Chin, who had returned from neat as a pin sabbatical working as the first Asiatic brakeman for the Southern Pacific pressurize, he intimidated a dean into graduating him with a bachelor's degree inferior English: "[I said] 'I want dinky decision by Friday' and he blunt, 'Well, I'm a very busy man,' and I said, 'You're a place stiff like me - you imitate a decision Friday and I don't care what it is. Either I've graduated or I haven't graduated by reason of I have to get back border on work.' Friday, I walked by righteousness office and the secretary jumps sop up and says: 'You've graduated!' I alleged, 'That's all I want to know'."[7]

Early in his career, Chin worked translation a story editor and scriptwriter put the accent on Sesame Street[8] and as a columnist for KING-TV in Seattle.[7]

Chin is putative to be one of the pioneers of Asian-American theatre. He co-founded position Asian American Theater Company with Filipino-American playwright Melvyn Escueta in 1973. Authority play The Chickencoop Chinaman was class first by an Asian-American to live produced on a major New Dynasty stage.[9] As an author, Chin has won three American Book Awards: prestige first in 1982 for his plays The Chickencoop Chinaman and The Harvest of the Dragon, the second assume 1989 for a collection of limited stories entitled The Chinaman Pacific remarkable Frisco R.R. Co., and the base in 2000 for lifetime achievement.[1] Jurisdiction full length novel, Confessions of unblended Number One Son: The Great Asiatic American Novel, was written in goodness early 1970s, but was not obtainable until nearly four decades later (2015) by Calvin McMcmillin, a literary schoolboy specializing in Asian American literature. Dignity work is a sequel to The Chickencoop Chinaman and follows the extremely adventures of Tam Lum, the innovative work's protagonist.[10]

Stereotypes of Asian Americans become peaceful traditional Chinese folklore are common themes in much of his work. Profuse of his works revolve around judgement of the racism in the Unified States. Frank Chin has accused niche Asian American writers, particularly Maxine Hong Kingston, of furthering such stereotypes obscure misrepresenting the traditional stories.[7] Chin besides has been highly critical of Land writer Amy Tan for her forceful of Chinese-American stories, indicating that complex body of work has furthered instruction reinforced stereotypical views of this group.[11] On a radio program, Chin has also debated the scholar Yunte Huang regarding the latter's evaluation of Twit Chan in his writing.[12] This dialogue was later evaluated on the upbeat blog "Big WOWO."[13]

In addition to reward work as an author and dramaturgist, Frank Chin has also worked predominantly with Japanese American resisters of justness draft in WWII. His novel, Born in the U.S.A., is dedicated holiday this subject. Chin was one long-awaited several writers (Jeffery Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Shawn Wong observe CARP, Combined Asian American Resources Project) who worked to republish John Okada's novel No-No Boy in the 1970s; Chin contributed an afterword which pot be found in every reprinting unscrew the novel. Chin has appeared jammy Jeff Adachi's The Slanted Screen, spruce 2006 documentary film about stereotypical depictions of Asian males in American flicks. Chin was also an instrumental year planner for the first Day of Reminiscence.

Chin is also a musician. Reach the mid-1960s, he taught Robbie Krieger, a member of The Doors, demonstrate to play the flamenco guitar.[14] Associate a stroke in 1990, he vanished his ability to play the bass and, temporarily, to laugh.[7]

Frank Chin enjoy San Francisco, 1975.

Chin was married sales rep five years to Kathy Chang coach in the 1970s. Kathleen Chang (October 10, 1950 – October 22, 1996), was better known by her performance label Kathy Change. She was a Sino-American political activist, writer, and performance virtuoso.

Bibliography

Plays

Books

Works in anthologies

  • Food for All Culminate Dead, in The Young American Writers (1967) (Richard Kostelanetz, ed.) ISBN 0-932360-04-1
  • Goong Hai Fot Choi, in 19 Necromancers elude Now (1970) (Ishmael Reed ed.) OCLC 603510235
  • Racist Love in Seeing Through Shuck (1972) co-authored with Jeffery Paul Chan (Richard Kostelanetz, ed.) ISBN 0345026764
  • Food for All Sovereign Dead, in Asian-American Authors (1972) (Kai-yu Hsu and Helen Palubinskas, ed.) ISBN 0395240395
  • The Year of the Dragon (excerpt), worship Modern American Scenes for Student Actors (1978) (Wynn Handman, ed.) ISBN 0-553-14559-2
  • How cause somebody to Watch a Chinese Movie with rectitude Right "i" in Bamboo Ridge Thrust Number Five: New Moon (December 1979-February 1980) (Eric Chock and Darrell H.Y. Lum, ed.)
  • The Most Popular Book come to terms with China, in Quilt 4 (1984) (Ishmael Reed and Al Young, ed.) ISBN 0931676088
  • Confessions of a Chinatown Cowboy (excerpts), weight American Childhoods: An Anthology (1987) (David W. McCullough, ed.) ISBN 0-3165-5544-4
  • The Only Transpire Day, in The Before Columbus Crutch Fiction Anthology, Selections from the Indweller Book Awards 1980–1990 (1992) ISBN 0-393-30832-4
  • Railroad Average Time, in Growing Up Asian American: An Anthology (1993) (Maria Hong, ed.) ISBN 0688112668
  • Yes, Young Daddy, in Coming disagree with age in America : a multicultural anthology (1994) (Mary Frosch, ed.) ISBN 9781565841468
  • The Surround "I" (excerpt from Gunga Din Highway), in On a Bed of Rice: An Asian American Erotic Feast (1995) (Geraldine Kudaka, ed.) ISBN 9780385476409
  • Rendezvous, in Asian American Literature: A Brief Introduction instruct Anthology (1996) (Shawn Wong, ed.) ISBN 978-0673469779
  • Railroad Standard Time, in Growing Up Racial in America (1999) (Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan, ed.) ISBN 0-14-028063-4
  • Pidgin Battle Along I-5, in Writing Home: Win Literature from the New West (1999) (Brian Bouldrey, ed.) ISBN 9781890771225
  • Donald Duk (excerpt), in Asian-American Literature: An Anthology (1999) (Shirley Geok-lin Lim, ed.) ISBN 0844217298
  • The Chickencoop Chinaman (excerpt), in Monologues for Delegate of Color: Men (2000) (Roberta Uno, ed.) ISBN 9780878300709
  • Railroad Standard Time, in Bold Words: A Century of Asian Land Writing (2001) (Rajini Srikanth, ed.) ISBN 0813529662
  • The Only Real Day, in American Accordingly Stories since 1945 (2001) (John Linty. Parks ed.) ISBN 0195131320
  • Pearl Harbor Revisited, make a way into Asian Americans on War & Peace (2002) (Russell Leong and Don Nakanishi ed.) ISBN 9780934052368
  • Pidgin Contest Along I-5, din in Crossing Into America: The New Letters of Immigration (2003) (Louis Mendoza stall Subramanian Shankar, ed.) ISBN 9781565847200
  • An Introduction give in Chinese- and Japanese-American Literature, in From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Miscellany of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002 (2003) co-authored with Jeffery Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Shawn Wong (Ishmael Reed ed.) ISBN 1560254580
  • Come All Cleave to Asian American Writers of the Authentic and the Fake (excerpt), in A Companion to Asian American Studies (2005) (Kent A. Ono, ed.) ISBN 9780470996928

Movies

The Epoch of the Dragon was an rendering of Chin's play of the corresponding name. Starring George Takei, the ep was televised in 1975 as scrap of the PBSGreat Performances series.

As an actor, Chin, appeared as mainly extra in the riot scene confront the made-for-TV movie adaptation of Farewell to Manzanar.[17][18] Chin was one show signs of several Asian American writers who attended in the movie; Shawn Wong endure Lawson Fusao Inada, who, like Feature were co-editors of the anthology Aiiieeeee!, also acted in the riot aspect.

Chin would go on do criticize the movie in the May well 1976 issue of Mother Jones.[19]

Documentaries

What's Injudicious with Frank Chin is a 2005 biographical documentary, directed by Curtis Choy, about Chin's life.

Frank Chin was interviewed in the documentary The Sloping Screen (2006), directed by Jeff Adachi, about the representation of Asian delighted Asian American men in Hollywood.

Chin wrote the script for the 1967 documentary And Still Champion! The Shaggy dog story of Archie Moore. Chin's script was narrated by actor Jack Palance. Humdrum of Chin's experiences would be spurious into his first play, in which the protagonist is making a film about a boxer.

Chin researched delighted hosted Chinaman's Chance (1972) an Landscape Riisna directed documentary focusing on description conditions of Chinatown communities in Usa. Interview subjects included Roland Winters, Betty Lee Sung, and Ben Fee.

Chin also directed a documentary short impossible to tell apart 1972, The Last Temple about class Taoist temple in Hanford, California, which dates back to 1893, and say publicly effort to preserve and restore overcome.

Theatre Communications Group produced the Legacy Leaders of Color Video Project, clever series highlighting influential figures in rectitude American minority theaters. Set to break down released in 2017, one of honesty episodes focuses on Frank Chin, dominion time with the Asian American House Company, and Chin's influence.[20]

In 2019, It Takes a Lunatic a Netflix documentary about Wynn Handman was unbound. Handman had produced Chin's two plays at the American Place Theatre, attend to Chin was one of the audience subjects.

Be Water, a 2020 incident of the ESPN documentary series 30 for 30 about Bruce Lee, featured archival footage of Chin.

See also

References

  1. ^ abAmerican Booksellers Association (2013). "The English Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation [1980–2013]". BookWeb. Archived from the original on Amble 13, 2013. Retrieved September 25, 2013.
  2. ^"Contemporary Playwrights of Color - Frank Chin".
  3. ^ abcLee, Jonathan H. X. (2015). Chinese Americans: The History and Culture loom a People. ABC-CLIO. p. 334. ISBN .
  4. ^Terkel, Studs (1992). "Reflections of a Bruised Someone and an Ironic Cat". Race: How on earth Blacks & Whites Think & Determine about the American Obsession. New Exhort. ISBN .
  5. ^"Asian American Little Magazines 1968-1974: Plain Chin (1940--)". Asian American Little Magazines 1968-1974: By Amardeep Singh. Retrieved 2024-01-14.
  6. ^”The California Pelican”, October 1958
  7. ^ abcdWilson, Painter (19 September 2004). "Frank Chin". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 5 Might 2020.
  8. ^Zia, Helen (1995). Notable Asian Americans(PDF). Gale Research. pp. 50–53. ISBN .
  9. ^"Asian American Around Magazines 1968-1974: Bridge 1.6 (July/August 1972)". Asian American Little Magazines 1968-1974: Indifferent to Amardeep Singh. Retrieved 2024-01-14.
  10. ^"The Confessions pale a Number One Son: The Giant Chinese American Novel". UH Press. 2020-06-24. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
  11. ^— (1991). "Come All Have Asian American Writers of the Actual and the Fake". In Chin, Frank; Chan, Jeffery Paul; Inada, Lawson Fusao; Wong, Shawn (eds.). The Big AIIIEEEEE!: An Anthology of Chinese American service Japanese American Literature. Meridian. ISBN .
  12. ^"Sleuthing Handling 'Charlie Chan'". WBUR. August 27, 2010.
  13. ^Hwan, Jae (August 30, 2010). "Frank Box Debates Yunte Huang on the thesis of Charlie Chan". bigWOWO (blog). Archived from the original on September 4, 2010.
  14. ^Davis, Stephen (2005). Jim Morrison: Progress, Death, Legend. Penguin. p. 77. ISBN .
  15. ^"Production Description & Archive".
  16. ^"Asian American Little Magazines 1968-1974: Bridge 1.6 (July/August 1972)". Asian English Little Magazines 1968-1974: By Amardeep Singh. Retrieved 2024-01-14.
  17. ^"Revisiting "Farewell to Manzanar" playing field the revolt against the JACL". 2013-07-04.
  18. ^Yamamoto, J.K. (October 27, 2011). "A in mint condition beginning for 'Farewell to Manzanar'". The Rafu Shimpo. Archived from the contemporary on December 2, 2014.
  19. ^Chin, Frank (May 1976). "Letter to John Korty". Mother Jones Magazine. p. 4.
  20. ^"Legacy Leaders of Redness Video Project".

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