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Summary: I loved it.
Review: As a haole married to a Chinese and a martial artist and as a part time San Franciscan, this book captured me on several levels.
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Summary: China Boy ROCKS!!!
Review: China Boy touched my heart when I first read it. It's about a Chinese-American named Kai who learns to fight back and defeat his tormentors in a San Francisco slum. The prose is brilliantly crafted, with humorous dialogues. I highly recommend this book to anyone
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: Chris is an idiot. This book was wonderfully informative. The chinese do not steal jobs from Americans. Some STUPID Americans cannot provide services for "educated" jobs. See, if you picture how stupid the average American is, then think that HALF of them are STUPIDER than that? And this Chris fella seems to be at the bottom of the pool.
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Summary: Compassion and insight in China Boy
Review: Gus Lee convincingly portrays the experience of a young boy from a Chinese family struggling to cope as a minority of one in his ethnic African American neighborhood. Confused also by being the only American-born member of his family and speaking Shangai not Cantonese Chinese, so that even Chinatown is an alien place, and dealing with a cold, Anglo-American step mother, the child tries to find his way through the cultural morass.Throughout, Gus retains compassion for the players, even those shown in not such good light, and reveals a talent for observation and ability to portray emotion. Yet this is not a heavy-handed tug at the heart strings. It is leavened with humor and leaves one with a sense of hope.
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Summary: Self-Pitying Yawn
Review: I found the main character way too self-involved and written t be overly cute. Yuck. It's awful to read a book with characters you don't even like. The bulk of the plot was describing Kai's boxing life with the YMCA. Who cares? I was left asking, "What happened later?". It's a shame because the story would have been of some interest in had focused more on his relationships with other people and his life in general. The little biography on the flapcover was more interesting that his memior. Overall it was quite disappointing- too bad good writing had to go to waste.
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Summary: Must read
Review: I just finished reading China Boy on a friend's recommendation and was blown away by it. I found the prose beautiful, the action heartbreaking, thrilling, and ultimately triumphant, and the view into Chinese America fascinating. I'm off to read anything else Gus Lee has produced.
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Summary: Just a little disappointing
Review: I saw Gus Lee speak at a university and I thought he was fascinating. He was very cultured and he had a lot of insight into the cross-culture and language scene in American cities. However, I was a bit disappointed in his book because it isn't very well-written. He attempts to make light of every situation by being witty and making jokes, but he ends up being annoying. However, the book does redeem itself to a point with some great insight into a family that was uprooted from its native Chinese culture and forced to live in San Francisco. China Boy is worth reading, but only if you don't have much else to read right now.
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Summary: Just a little disappointing
Review: I saw Gus Lee speak at a university and I thought he was fascinating. He was very cultured and he had a lot of insight into the cross-culture and language scene in American cities. However, I was a bit disappointed in his book because it isn't very well-written. He attempts to make light of every situation by being witty and making jokes, but he ends up being annoying. However, the book does redeem itself to a point with some great insight into a family that was uprooted from its native Chinese culture and forced to live in San Francisco. China Boy is worth reading, but only if you don't have much else to read right now.
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Summary: This book is lame.....
Review: I started to read this book for a class and it was terrible. It is all detail and no story whatsoever. I definitely recommend that you do NOT read this book. It was a waste of my time and a waste of everyone else's who read it. China Boy is not what I expected at all. Thanks
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Summary: I didn't expect the novel to be like this...
Review: If I was to rate this novel on the scale of 1-10, I will give it a score of 5 because I dislike Kai Ting?s parents throughout the whole book, especially when he didn?t really do anything about it. Edna (stepmother) dislike Kai Ting because of his poor English and the clothes he wears. Edna would not let Kai Ting in the house afterschool and lets him get beat up on the streets, not caring where he got all the bruises on his body. Kai Ting?s father did not ask Kai Ting whether he likes Edna or not and barely spend time with his son. I find that parents in this novel have a major problem in taking care of their kids and loving them. Personally I feel that Kai Ting?s stepmother is ?self-centered? because Edna does not care about him and she has a lack of communication with Kai Ting when problems appear. I find it terrible for his father to keep Kai Ting?s mother death away from him causing him to have immaginations of his mother visiting China. Settling down and discussing the problem can help the father and Kai Ting go through the hardship together. I will not recommentd this novel if you are a reader who is looking to solve problems verbally than physically. I was expecting this book to have Kai Ting?s family and himself going through different obstacles together and learn how they live through life in San Francisco. Instead it ended up that Kai Ting learns how to box and solves his problems physically than verbally.
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