It's Crazy to Stay Chinese in Minnesota: Chasing Bingo Tang

by Eleanor Wong Telemaque

Book Overview

The Wings own the Canton, the only Chinese restaurant in a small Minnesota town, which sells milk-fed turkey and pork-tenderloin sandwiches along with the wonton soup and chow mein. Ching Wing, as an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738817317
• ISBN13: 9780738817316
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Xlibris
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

It is crazy to love China in midwest small town

A heartfelt touching memoir of growing up chinese in an all white community during the McCarthy years of the 1950's. Ching , the heroine wants to be one hundred percent all white American girl and go to the senior prom. No invites from white boys; enterBingo Tang, son of St. Paul ganglord who fills her imagination with returning to China. She will lose face if she doesn't marrymother's choice, a rich restaurant owner from Chicago. What she decides may surprise the reader. Good for giving teenagers a lookat being "non" white in a small midwest town.

Great book on growing up as a Chinese American in the USA

Good reading for anyone interested in learning about the Chinese American experience growing up in the USA. It gives you insight and a perspective from a minority viewpoint as well as a child living in the society of the majority. It is written from both the heart and the mind with much verisimilitude. I highly recommend it!