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<i>American Knees</i>

American Knees is a novel written by Shawn Wong, and was first published in 1995 by Simon & Schuster, and later republished by the University of Washington Press in 2005. It was conceived as a cultural response to Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club,[citation needed] Wong's book depicts the love life of an East Asian American man with three women.

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This book chronicles the romantic chapters in the life of Raymond Ding, a Chinese-American university administrator who first marries and divorces a Chinese-American woman, then dates and breaks up with a hapa (biracial) younger woman, and later gets involved with a Vietnamese-American co-worker who was haunted by memories of the war.

About the author

Shawn Wong is an English Professor and the former director of the University Honors Program at the University of Washington.

He is also the author of the award-winning novel Homebase and an editor of many anthologies of Asian American literature, including Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian-American Writers and The Big Aiiieeeee!.

Writer Shawn Hsu Wong, 1975

Movie version

A film adaptation, called Americanese (2006), was written and directed by Eric Byler, produced by Lisa Onodera, and stars Chris Tashima as Raymond Ding. The film was acquired by IFC Films.



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