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* AuthorAvatar: The book tells the story of a second-generation chinese immigrant named Gene Yang- ''er, rather'', Jin Wang.
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* AuthorAvatar: The book tells the story of a second-generation chinese Chinese immigrant named Gene Yang- ''er, rather'', Jin Wang.
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* MagicRealism: The Jin story, which starts as a mostly-realistic, if exaggerated, story of growing up as a second-generation Chinese in America, but later includes [[spoiler:physical transformation into a white kid, and a visit from the Monkey King to straighten the protagonist out]].
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* MagicRealism: The Jin story, which starts as a mostly-realistic, if exaggerated, story of growing up as a second-generation Chinese immigrant in America, but later includes [[spoiler:physical transformation into a white kid, and a visit from the Monkey King to straighten the protagonist out]].
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* InternalizedCategorism: One of the major themes of the story is internalized racism and self-acceptance. Near the end of the story, [[spoiler:it is revealed that Danny is actually Gene Wang and that Chin-Kee is the Monkey King in a costume to remind him of his Chinese heritage. This symbolizes how no matter how hard Gene Wang tries to be "Danny" aka white, he will always have those stereotypes follow him.]]
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* InternalizedCategorism: One of the major themes of the story is internalized racism and self-acceptance. Near the end of the story, [[spoiler:it is revealed that Danny is actually Gene Wang and that Chin-Kee is the Monkey King in a costume costume, and he is following "Danny" in order to remind him of his Chinese heritage. This symbolizes how no matter how hard Gene Wang tries to be "Danny" aka white, he will always have those stereotypes follow him.]]
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* InternalizedCategorism: Internalized racism is one of the main themes of this book. Near the end of the book, [[spoiler:it is revealed that Danny is actually Gene Wang and that Chin-Kee is the Monkey King in a costume to remind him of his Chinese heritage. This symbolizes how no matter how hard Gene Wang tries to be "Danny" aka white, he will always have those stereotypes follow him.]]
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* InternalizedCategorism: Internalized racism is one One of the main major themes of this book. the story is internalized racism and self-acceptance. Near the end of the book, story, [[spoiler:it is revealed that Danny is actually Gene Wang and that Chin-Kee is the Monkey King in a costume to remind him of his Chinese heritage. This symbolizes how no matter how hard Gene Wang tries to be "Danny" aka white, he will always have those stereotypes follow him.]]
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* InternalizedCategorism: Internalized racism is one of the main themes of this book. Near the end of the book, [[spoiler:it is revealed that Danny is actually Gene Wang and that Chin-Kee is the Monkey King in a costume to remind him of his Chinese heritage. This symbolizes how no matter how hard Gene Wang tries to be "Danny" aka white, he will always have those stereotypes follow him.]]
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* ShapeShifter: The Monkey King learns a kung fu discipline to do this, and uses it to fuel his InferioritySuperiorityComplex. Notably, he assumes a tall, human-like shape constantly and frequently increases its height in a pathological attempt to be bigger than everyone else. [[spoiler:In a deliberate parallel that might or might not be purely symbolic, Jin also transforms into Danny after betraying Wei-Chan's trust, and resumes his original shape when Sun Wukong convinces him to.]]
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* ShapeShifter: The Monkey King learns a kung fu discipline to do this, and uses it to fuel his InferioritySuperiorityComplex. Notably, he assumes a tall, human-like shape constantly and frequently increases its height in a pathological attempt to be bigger than everyone else. [[spoiler:In a deliberate parallel that might or might not be purely symbolic, Jin also transforms into Danny after betraying Wei-Chan's Wei-Chen's trust, and resumes his original shape when Sun Wukong convinces him to.]]
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* {{Spoonerism}}: Right before watching a movie with Amelia, Jin notes that the theater "just ''lurned'' off the ''tights''".
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** Wei-Chen and Suzy laugh about how after accidentally knocking over some test tubes, Jin told Amelia, "At least I didn't ''rake'' the ''breast''", his only real "conversation" with her so far they can think of.
** Right before watching a movie with Amelia, Jin notes that the theater "just ''lurned'' off the ''tights''".
** Wei-Chen and Suzy laugh about how after accidentally knocking over some test tubes, Jin told Amelia, "At least I didn't ''rake'' the ''breast''", his only real "conversation" with her so far they can think of.
** Right before watching a movie with Amelia, Jin notes that the theater "just ''lurned'' off the ''tights''".
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* ArrangedMarriage: In elementary school, Suzy was the only other Asian student in Jin's class. Their classmates asked if they were related, then started rumors that their parents had arranged for them to get married on Suzy's thirteenth birthday. As a result, Suzy and Jin avoided each other as much as possible.
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* TaughtToHate: Timmy is a white boy in Jin's school who is racist against him for being Chinese. When Jin is first introduced to the class, Timmy says, "My momma says Chinese people eat dogs." Years later, when they are attending the same high school, he still holds on to those beliefs.
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* TaughtToHate: Timmy is a white boy in Jin's school who is racist against him for being Chinese. When Jin moves to America and is first introduced to the class, his new American classmates, a white boy named Timmy says, "My momma says Chinese people eat dogs." Years later, when they are attending the same high school, he still holds on makes sure to those beliefs.loudly say anti-Asian slurs in the presence of Jin, Wei-Chen, and Suzy, all of whom are Asian.
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* TaughtToHate: Timmy is a white boy in Jin's school who is racist against him for being Chinese. When Jin is first introduced to the class, Timmy says, "My momma says Chinese people eat dogs." Years later, when they are attending the same high school, he still holds on to those beliefs.
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A Creator/DisneyPlus [[Series/AmericanBornChinese2023 series]] focusing on Jin Wang is in the works, with Creator/DestinDanielCretton slated to direct. It's scheduled to premiere on May 24, 2023.
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A Creator/DisneyPlus [[Series/AmericanBornChinese2023 series]] focusing on Jin Wang is in the works, with and directed by Creator/DestinDanielCretton slated to direct. It's scheduled to premiere premiered on May 24, 2023.
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* HyperlinkStory: A textbook example of the form.
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* HyperlinkStory: A textbook example of the form. The book revolves around three seemingly separate plots: Jin's struggle to fit in with his white peers, Danny's struggle to shake off his association with his extremely stereotypical Chinese cousin, Chin-Kee, and a retelling of the first portion of ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest''. In the end, it turns out that [[spoiler:Danny is a disguise that Jin took on out of internalized Sinophobia, Chin-Kee is actually the Monkey King from ''Journey to the West'' in disguise, and Wei Chen, the Taiwanese boy who Jin fell out with shortly before becoming Danny, is the Monkey King's son. The story ends with the Monkey King helping Jin reaccept his Chinese identity and make amends with Wei Chen]].
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A Creator/DisneyPlus series [[https://deadline.com/2021/10/american-born-chinese-disney-plus-series-melvin-mar-kelvin-yu-destin-daniel-cretton-1234848912/ focusing on Jin Wang is in the works]], with Creator/DestinDanielCretton slated to direct. It's scheduled to premiere sometime in 2023.
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A Creator/DisneyPlus series [[https://deadline.com/2021/10/american-born-chinese-disney-plus-series-melvin-mar-kelvin-yu-destin-daniel-cretton-1234848912/ [[Series/AmericanBornChinese2023 series]] focusing on Jin Wang is in the works]], works, with Creator/DestinDanielCretton slated to direct. It's scheduled to premiere sometime in on May 24, 2023.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Yang's ''ComicBook/NewSuperMan'' would continue the concept of illusions, shapeshifting, mystical Chinese concepts (in its case, the ''qi''), and the main character is partly based on Sun Wukong.
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* UnnamedParent: Jin and Danny's parents are never actually named during the story. [[spoiler:This is because Jin and Danny are the same person, and naming his parents would give that twist away.]]
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* UnnamedParent: Jin and Danny's parents are never actually named during the story. [[spoiler:This is because Jin and Danny are the same person, and naming his parents would give that twist away.away the twist.]]
