![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Weaved alongside Jin's coming-of-age tale is the lore of The Monkey King, a thousands-of-years old sovereign and deity willing to forsake his native simian identity to attain the rank and respect of human-presenting gods. In American Born Chinese, Yang writes and illustrates the story of Jin Wang, a young boy eager to fit in and feel comfortable in his own skin amongst people who view him as foreign despite being born and raised in San Francisco. Arguably the most popular among them is his New York Times best-selling graphic novel American Born Chinese. Since debuting as a cartoonist in 1997 with the Xeric grant-supported, self published comic Gordon Yamamoto and The King of the Geeks, Gene Luen Yang has published over 100 works. ![]()
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