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A provocative and important study of the different ideas Easterners and Westerners have about the self and society and what this means for current debates in art, education, geopolitics, and business. Never have East and West come as close as they are today, yet we are still baffled by one another. Is our mantra "To thine own self be true"? Or do we believe we belong to something larger than ourselves--a family, a religion, a troop--that claim...

After the deaths of her husband and her best friend, sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong moves to a small New England town and is soon joined by others looking to start anew. What Hattie makes of the situation lies at the center of this penetrating novel.

Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius and daughter of an American missionary, starts over in a small New England town, where she is soon joined by a Cambodian-American family and an ex-lover, all of them looking for their own new lives.

Sparkling--a gently satiric look at the American Dream and its fallout on those who pursue it."--"The New York Times With dazzling wit and compassion, Gish Jen--author of the highly acclaimed novels Typical American and Mona in the Promised Land--looks at ambition and compromise at century's end and finds that much of the action is as familiar--and as strange--as the things we know to be most deeply true about ourselves. The stories in Who's I...

Carnegie Wong and Blondie meet and marry in college when they are asked to take in a baby of Asian descent (Chinese Korean? Japanese?) Their modern American marriage thrives as they adopt another girl from China and eventually have a son of their own. But always in the background is the delightful evil genius of the story, Mama Wong, who swam from mainland China to the freedom of Hong Kong by hugging two basketballs for flotation. She's a Chin...

After the deaths of her husband and her best friend, sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong moves to a small New England town and is soon joined by others looking to start anew. What Hattie makes of the situation lies at the center of this penetrating novel.

After the deaths of her husband and her best friend, sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong moves to a small New England town and is soon joined by others looking to start anew. What Hattie makes of the situation lies at the center of this penetrating novel.