Bulletproof Buddhists and other essays
By: Frank Chin.
Series: Intersections; Intersections (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press; UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Honolulu; Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
Subjects: Chin, Frank, 1940-; Chinese Americans -- Social life and customs.; Chinese Americans -- Biography.
Description: Frank Chin is perhaps the most instantly recognizable voice in Chinese American writing today. A self-proclaimed "transcendent Chinaman pagan heathen barbarian," Chin searches out (or stumbles on) the right people and situations, vividly recording the outcome in distinctively American terms. Here are six of his best essays, spanning the past forty years. Making his way across the U.S. to Cuba, Chin is arrested as an American spy some time between Castro's revolution and the missile crisis.

He meets Ben Fee, the man who integrated San Francisco, and is introduced to Southeast Asian gangs and culture in San Diego. He discovers Chinese bachelor society along the California-Mexico border and travels to Singapore, where he speculates on the fear and suppression of Chinese culture among Chinese Singaporeans. Back at the home front, he encounters the new white racism along Interstate 5 during the Gulf War.