The site of domestic violence and the altar of phallic sacrifice in Gus Lee's China Boy.(Critical Essay) From: College Literature | Date: March 22, 2002| Author: Shen, Yichin | COPYRIGHT 2002 West Chester University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In 1991, Gus Lee made his brilliant literary debut with China Boy, a semi-autobiographical novel depicting the little boy Kai Ting's turbulent childhood and rites of passage in a black San Francisco slum in the 1950s. He followed his widely acclaimed first novel with Honor and Duty (1994), a military novel that traces Kai Ting's life as a cadet at West Point in the 1960s. The success of China Boy and Honor and Duty having firmly established Lee's place in Asian American letters, hi...

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