­ Frank Chin, "The Chickencoop Chinaman" (1972)   "[Maxine Hong] Kingston, [David Henry] Hwang, and [Amy] Tan are the first writers of any race, and certainly the first writers of Asian Ancestry, to so boldly fake the best-known works from the most universally known body of Asian literature and lore in history. And, to legitimize their faking, they have to fake all of Asian American history and literature, and argue that the immigrants who settled and established Chinese America lost touch with Chinese culture, and that faulty memory combined with new experience produced new versions of these traditional stories. This version of history is their contribution to the stereotype." ­ Frank Chin, "The Big AIIEEEEE!   An Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese   American Literature (1991). A Meridian Book (The Penguin Group)  Day becomes night, and night again becomes day. The cycle perpetually continues. Each of us enters the world with an individual soul in which we are all beset with the personal mission of fulfilling a script to define our reason of being. A virgin embryo, he was without much of a data bank of former lives or programmed experiences from which to refer. Blindly entering this world of chaos, he absorbed all the established notions fed to him of his secondary worthiness. Mental enslavement. Self-contempt. Emotional fear. These were also probably the everyday companions of the early Chinese in America who came before him. This was to be a shared, common psychological profile. The only difference between him and those old spirits of a bygone era ­ they knew their souls to be born of China. His soul was seeded here in America... the soul of "hollow bamboo" ....a Chinese without its innards .... a "JOOK SING" to all the authentic Chinamen over the globe. He was both an ALIEN to the real-deal Chinamen ­ as well as an ALIEN to White America. It is little wonder that he would assume the life of a Phantom Chinaman, a solitary loner throughout his life. His role models were the Lone Ranger,... The Man with No Name.... Kurosawa's Samurai without a master... The Last of the Mohican tribe. ­­ lost, solitary figures seeking meaning and definition. ________________________________________________________________________________________ [ continue ]    [ Note: For the uninformed, the word "Chinaman" is a universally-known pejorative term for "Chinese person." "Chinaman" was coined in the racist decades of Chinese Exclusion and was used as a slur and a hateful taunt. The Term is used here to artistically emphasize its racist foundation in American sociological history.]