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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: Self-Pitying Yawn
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: 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: 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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Summary: info on kai ting
Review: in china boy i need to find some information kai ting and what are he doing in the book.
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Summary: An exerpt from my American Studies assignment
Review: Kai, is the main protagonist of an inspiring novel called China Boy, which is written by Gus Lee. The novel is actually a "semi-autobiography", the author states, " 'China Boy' is a story about my family in China before immigrating to the United States during the war and then (after we settled in the U.S.) my own attempts become a successful African-American male youth in the Panhandle of San Francisco." Even though Gus Lee has Chinese blood (in his childhood) he tries to adapt or assimilate into the American culture by learning the street fighting of blacks in the Panhandle. The book depicts the author's own struggle to defend himself during his childhood in the Panhandle. Fabricated with characters of different races, the story captures the vision of America as a "melting pot." Through the keen entangling-details of Ting's family fleeing to America, the boxing lessons that Kai takes at YMCA, and Kai's fighting with his stepmother and the bullies on the street one extricates the lesson that life always has trials and tribulations, some things can't be changed, but others can.
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Summary: You live the book
Review: You're really living the book, there's so much detail. I had to read this book for a book report, which was not a good idea. The book was very well thought out. I suggest to take breaks after 5 or so chapters. Sometimes, the author goes into too much detail and repeats many things that you already know about the characters. Overall, the book is touching with courage and a little anxiety, I did feel like crying in certain parts for what he had to go through to prove himself to everyone.
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