Mark Chiang

Mark Chiang is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies: Autonomy and Representation in the University (2009).


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Asian American Literature and the Price of Failure

Don Lee’s The Collective explores the politics of Asian American culture through the story of three characters: Joshua Yoon, Jessica Tsai, and Eric Cho. A Korean American from Mission Viejo, California, Eric serves as the narrator, but the book revolves around Joshua, a Korean orphan adopted by two liberal Jewish professors at Harvard. An egotistical […]