Yu has written for HBO’s “Westworld,” as well as for programming on FX, AMC, and Adult Swim. It will likely debut sometime in late 2023 or 2024. It is now in production, being filmed both in Los Angeles’ Chinatown and an imagined, fabricated facsimile. “Interior Chinatown” won the 2020 National Book Award for fiction and has been picked up by Hulu to be made into a season of television episodes. “There are always conversations around who gets represented and how, and what that does to shape people’s understanding of themselves.”
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“I think issues around representation in media that give ‘Interior Chinatown’ its structure are relevant to everybody,” said Terence Washington, the Free Library’s manager of civic engagement and programs. Kung Fu Guy also suffocates inside a set of oppressive stereotypes. While Kung Fu Guy seems to be the pinnacle for Wu, the reader quickly sees that the identifier is problematic.
With luck and diligence Wu hopes to rise through the hierarchy of stereotypical roles that people of Asian descent normally get, to one day achieve the loftiest of heights: Kung Fu Guy. His name is Willis Wu but he more strongly identifies as Generic Asian Man, a character usually seen on the edges of the screen making deliveries or working in a restaurant. “Interior Chinatown,” a novel by Charles Yu written in the format of a screenplay, is this year’s selection for the Free Library of Philadelphia’s annual all-city reading program, One Book, One Philadelphia.īy turns comic, experimental, and emotional with a sharp eye on Asian American identity issues, the story follows a character who lives in an unidentified American Chinatown and works in the television and film industry as a background actor.
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