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Section 1: "ACT I: GENERIC ASIAN MAN"

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Yu, Charles. Interior Chinatown: A Novel. Vintage Books, a Division of Penguin Random House, 2020. First Vintage Contemporaries Paperback Edition.

• [Note: This text is written in the second person, but it is clear from context that the perspective is that of Willis Wu, the protagonist. For the sake faithfulness to the original text, however, the second person point of view is preserved in this abstract. Similarly, when material is quoted, capitalization is preserved from the original screenplay format.]

• The first act is preceded by a Bonnie Tsui quote about the nature of Chinatown as a setting.

• "ACT I: GENERIC ASIAN MAN" opens with a brief interior scene set at the Golden Palace in which "you" dream of being cast as "Kung Fu Guy" but at present are playing "Background Oriental...

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