6/20/2023 0 Comments Frog and toad all books![]() ![]() ![]() And when a new student named Wei-Chen (Jim Liu) shows up, Jin gets assigned to show him around, clearly because Wei-Chen is also Chinese.īut Wei-Chen is not what he seems. His coach and classmates keep calling him “Jim.” A teammate quotes a catchphrase from an old sitcom that trades in ugly stereotypes. Every day, Jin deals with microaggressions that stop just short of explicit racism. Loosely based on Gene Luen Yang’s 2006 graphic novel and created by Kelvin Yu of “Bob’s Burgers” and “Master of None,” “American Born Chinese” revolves around Jin Wang (Ben Wang), a rising sophomore desperate to fit into his majority-white high school - so much so that he’s ditched his nerdy friends who like comics and cosplay for some soccer jocks, and shoplifts a trendy jacket his mom deems too expensive to buy at full price. ![]()
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