oh wait

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dragon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Shiva
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate_Kid_%28comics%29

for the villain side
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_Tzu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_the_Merciless

well then, nevermind.

Well, there is always room for improvement. The full title is “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.” She could’ve improved it by naming it “Snow Flower and the Hundred Secret Fans of the Kitchen God.” That would’ve been really appealing to the ‘philes.

D,

I just visited that lisasee.com site. That is some hella crazy shit. From her bio:

“While collecting the details for On Gold Mountain, she developed the idea for her first novel, Flower Net (1997), which was a national bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and on the Los Angeles Times Best Books List for 1997. Flower Net was also nominated for an Edgar award for best first novel. This was followed by two more mystery-thrillers, The Interior (2000) and Dragon Bones (2003), which once again featured the characters of Liu Hulan and David Stark.”

How the hell do you do research on your family’s history and somehow come up with a romantic story about a Chinese woman and a White guy shacking up and fighting evil Chinese triads? Oh yeah, that’s right, she was trying to write an Asian-themed NY Times bestseller. I guess she already had the secret formula.

So I guess it seems that even the Asian American female authors who look white are into the whole White guy for a hero/ Asian heroine type of thing. If I didn’t know she was part Asian, I’d be screaming racism. But then again, further down:

“She was honored as National Woman of the Year by the Organization of Chinese American Women in 2001 and was the recipient of the Chinese American Museum’s History Makers Award in Fall 2003.”

Still no yellow card, but if she could exchange all those yellow tokens supporting her for some Chuck E. Cheese tokens, she could earn herself enough prize tickets to buy a fridge.

It will tough for me to one up that with my first book. I’ll have to name it “Exotic Slanty-Eyed Chinky Chink Chinks with Slanted Pussies and Little Dicks…in Love”
It will be the greatest literary work in American History.

Well,if you look at the back of her book “Snow Flower,” she’s got recommendations from BOTH Amy Tan AND Maxine Hong Kingston. The only one she’s missing is David Henry Hwang, who must’ve been busy selling his soul to someone else since he would have jumped at the opportunity to promote a book like hers.

So even though she may have “lost her yellow card,” she’s still got two prominent yellow tokens.

I understand the irony of a half-breed calling a quarter “White”, but I was forced to teach the most popular high school history text which uses a video by See as its main voice for Chinese immigration. It’s done gratuitously with her telling of her family’s struggles, white-washing Angel Island internment, saying how it wasn’t so bad, talking assimilationism and then jumping on to screen and shouting, “GOTCHA YOU RACISTS! WHITE PEOPLE CAN BE CHINESE TOO!”
One of my students actually blurted out, “Why is that cracker on the screen talking about being Chinese?”
She lived the pathological American Dream: If you try hard enough, one day your children will come out white.

And that’s really not much of an exaggeration. I hold her no personal illwill–she’s ridden the white ventriloquist arm up her back all the way to the bank while easing her own identity issues. (To be fair, I think she was raised among Chinese Americans). But sorry, she’s lost her yellow card.

Man, it’s like the token romantic Gweilo interest is some fantasy romantic superhero of pornographic proportions.