@article{866633,
      author = {Kang, Younghill,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/866633},
      title = {East goes West : the making of an oriental Yankee /},
      abstract = {"Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming  promise of the United States with nothing but four dollars  and a suitcase full of Shakespeare to his name, the young,  idealistic Chungpa Han arrives in a New York teeming with  expatriates, businessmen, students, scholars, and  indigents. Struggling to support his studies, he travels  throughout the United States and Canada, becoming by turns  a traveling salesman, a domestic worker, and a farmer, and  observing along the way the idealism, greed, and shifting  values of the industrializing twentieth century. Part  picaresque adventure, part shrewd social commentary, East  Goes West casts a sharply satirical eye on the demands and  perils of assimilation. It is a masterpiece not only of  Asian American literature but also of American  literature"--},
      recid = {866633},
      pages = {xxxviii, 389 pages ;},
}