![]() ![]() ![]() Chin-KeeĬhin-Kee is Danny’s cousin, an over-the-top racist caricature of Chinese stereotypes. Every year, Danny makes inroads at a new high school only for his cousin Chin-Kee to visit and ruin Danny’s reputation. Dannyĭanny is Jin's fantasy alter-ego, who embodies everything Jin Wang wishes he could be: popular, smart, blond, athletic, and white. He brings a message to Danny, who is really Jin, that he must embrace his true identity as an American-born Chinese person. The Monkey King later arrives incarnated as Chin-Kee. Eventually, a monk named Wong Lai-Tsao helps him return to his true form as a monkey, without shoes. When he faces Tze-Yo-Tzuh, the creator of the Earth, he retains his false belief that he is the greatest being ever created and winds up buried in a mountain of rock for five hundred years. He returns to his kingdom and masters Kung-Fu disciplines that make him invulnerable to the execution order leveled against him. He considers himself equal to the gods and goddesses that rule over him and the monkeys within his kingdom, but when they reject him from a party because he is a shoeless monkey, he assaults them in anger. The Monkey King is a deity who rules over Flower Fruit Mountain. Jin later meets Wei-Chen to see that he has embraced consumerism and flashy clothes and cars. A recent immigrant from Taiwan, Wei-Chen's accent is pronounced and Jin encourages him to act less like he is "fresh off the boat." After Wei-Chen and Jin have a falling out, it is revealed that Wei-Chen is the Monkey King's son incarnated as a human, as a test of virtue to see if he can avoid human vices for forty years. Wei-Chen is Jin's best friend throughout most of the book. Jin eventually embraces his true identity. His discomfort at being Chinese leads him to fantasize about shedding his ethnicity and transforming into a white boy named Danny. Born and raised by Chinese immigrants in San Francisco's Chinatown, Jin moves to a predominantly white suburb, where he is bullied by his peers for his ethnicity. ![]()
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