Tiger’s Tail (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Gus Lee
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1974
- Setting: Camp Casey, Republic of Korea
- Principal Characters: Jackson Hu-chin Kan, Cara Milano, Jimmy Buford, Min Oh-shik, B. K. Magrip, P. K. Levine, Carlos Justicio Murray, Frederick C. LeBlanc, Patrick Treaty McCrail, Song Sae Moon, The Wang Mansin Mudang, Hoon Jae-woo
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Emotions, Immigration or emigration, Vietnam War, Identity, Soldiers, Asian Americans, China or Chinese people, Korea or Koreans
- Locales: Korea
Gus Lee is a second-generation Chinese American born to a family who immigrated from Shanghai, China, to the United States. After Lee’s mother passed away, his father married a non-Chinese woman who took it upon herself to “Americanize” Lee. Lee learned self-respect and self-discipline not at home, but in a boxing program at the YMCA. After attending the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and receiving his law degree from the University of California at Davis, Lee served as an Army command judge advocate and has been a deputy district attorney, deputy director for the California...
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