Notes
1. All citations of this text and page references are to Fae Myenne Ng, Orphan Bachelors: A Memoir. I thank Fae Myenne Ng for her guandao meticulous readings and for her “tenacious and loquacious” suggestions.
2. David L. Eng, Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001).
3. Gish Jen Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self (Boston: Harvard University Press, 2013).
4. “Conversation with Fae Myenne Ng [Grove],” BookBrowse, https://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm/author_number/3819/fae-myenne-ng.
5. Liza Cheuk May Chan 陳綽薇, My Impossible Life (Cambridge, MA: Book Baby, 2017), 326.
6. Ibid., 317.
7. Curtis Choy What’s Wrong with Frank Chin? (2005), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468963/.
8. Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (New York: Vintage International, 1980), 209.
9. Ibid., 207.
10. Maxine Hong Kingston, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life (New York: Knopf, 2011), 208.
11. Ibid., 208–9.
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King-Kok Cheung
King-Kok Cheung (Typhoon Baby) born and raised in Hong Kong, attended St. Stephen’s Girls’ College from Kindergarten to matriculation, received her B.A. and M.A. (thesis on Homer) from Pepperdine University, and Ph.D. (dissertation on Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Milton) from UC Berkeley. She is UCLA Professor Emeritus of English and Special Advisor of the U.S.-China Education Trust, author of Articulate Silences and Chinese American Literature without Borders, and the recipient of the 2023 Association of Asian American Studies Lifetime Career Achievement Award.