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Article: The site of domestic violence and the altar of phallic sacrifice in Gus Lee's China Boy.(Critical Essay)
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- College Literature
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- March 22, 2002
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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, his next two novels, Tiger's Tail (1996), an ingenious political thriller that takes place along the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, and No Physical Evidence (1998), a gripping ...