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Frank Chin (趙健秀; pinyin: Zhào Jiànxiù) (born February 25 1940) is a Chinese-American author and playwright.
Frank Chin was born in Berkeley, California, but was raised to the age of six by a retired Vaudeville couple in Placerville, California. At six his mother brought him back to the San Francisco Bay Area to live in Oakland Chinatown. He attended college at the University of California, Berkeley. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
Bibliography
Plays
- The Chickencoop Chinaman (1972)
- The Year of the Dragon (1976) (this was the first play by an Asian-American to be produced on Broadway)
Books
- Aiieeeee: An Anthology of Asian American Writers (1974) (Editor, contributor)
- The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co (1988)
- Donald Duk (1991)
- The Big AIIEEEEE!: An Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American Literature (1991) (Editor, contributor)
- Gunga Din Highway (1994)
- Bulletproof Buddhists and Other Essays (1998)
- Born in the USA: A Story of Japanese America, 1889-1947 (2002)
Movies
The Year of the Dragon was an adaption of Chin's play of the same name. Starring George Takei, the film was televised in 1975 as part of the PBS Great Performances series.
What's Wrong with Frank Chin is a 2005 biographical documentary about Chin's life.
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1940 births | American activists | American dramatists and playwrights | Chinese American writers | Living people
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