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Frank Chin was born in Berkeley, California , but was raised to the age of six by a retired Vaudeville couple in Placerville, California . At six his mother brought him back to the San Francisco Bay Area to live in Oakland Chinatown . He attended college at the University Of California, Berkeley . He currently resides in Los Angeles, California .


BIBLIOGRAPHY


Plays

  • ''The Chickencoop Chinaman'' (1972)

  • ''The Year of the Dragon'' (1976) This was the first play by an Asian-American to be produced on Broadway



Books

  • ''The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co'' (1988)

  • ''Donald Duk'' (1991)

  • ''Gunga Din Highway'' (1994)

  • ''Bulletproof Buddhists and Other Essays'' (1998)

  • ''Born in the USA: a story of Japanese America, 1889-1947'' (2002)



MOVIES

  • ''Year of the Dragon'' (1975)



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