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).
Mark Chiang
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Writing on Public Books
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 […]









