The Confessions of a Number One Son: The Great Chinese American Novel

by Calvin McMillin and Frank Chin

In 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824838920
• ISBN13: 9780824838928
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"