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University of California, Santa Barbara Davidson Library Department of Special Collections California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives GUIDE TO THE FRANK CHIN PAPERS 1940-2001
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Frank Chin is a UCSB graduate (1965) and is widely recognized as the most influential Asian American dramatist and writer (novels, short stories, essays) in the country. He is one of a handful of top literary figures in Asian American literary and cultural communities, and he is distinguished as being the first Asian American playwright produced in New York City. He founded the Asian American Theater Workshop in San Francisco which later evolved into the Asian American Theater Company (AATC). In discussing the value of the papers, Chin remarked, "I hope that my collection of research, letters and experimental manuscripts will stimulate a more traditional study of Asian American literature, beginning with an introduction to the Asian children's stories shared by China, Korea, and Japan since pre-historic times, and the "vernacular novels" developed to spread Chinese heroic tradition of the Ming, as a conscious expression of the myth of civilization throughout Asia.” “By making my papers available to the public, I hope that my efforts to treat knowledge of Asia and America as equally important will be seen and used.”
Born February 25, 1940, Frank Chin describes himself as a fifth generation Chinaman. His great-grandfather helped build the Southern Pacific Railroad and his grandmother was a steward. He worked as a brakeman for the line before he began writing. Frank Chin’s work broke new ground in the exploration of Chinese and Chinese American mythology, iconography and cultural misconception. At a time when most writers and scholars were merely examining the way that Chinese Americans experienced stereotypes, Frank Chin was confronting and destroying the perceived foundations from which those stereotypes evolved. In 1975 Frank Chin described his efforts as an activist for Chinese-American identity to Stanley Eichelbaum for the San Francisco Examiner, to fight what he described as “anti-yellow, love-em to death and extinction racism”, which he believed was still widely practiced here in the United States. “Not Chink-hating racism but a more subtle form that deprives us of identity and locks up our seven generations of history and culture in America.”
Growing up in Oakland California, Chin attended UC Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara and joined the Program in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa. He is both prolific and varied in his output, having produced documentaries, written novels, short stories, comic books, essays, plays and Hollywood scripts, as well as teaching classes in Asian American literature. Chin co-edited one of the marquee Asian American Anthologies entitled Aiiieeeee!, published in 1974, and a second volume entitled, The Big Aiiieeeee!, published in 1991. Among Frank Chin’s many contributions to Asian American literature and Asian American literature studies, is his tireless effort to fight against the emasculation of the Asian and Asian American male identity. In a letter to Margaret Chew for her term paper for Holy Family Academy, Chin clearly defines his views on his own writing and his views on cultural identity.
“My ideas on Asian America aren’t radical. What makes my ideas seem radical is that they are no longer popular. Whites wiped out the Chinese truth about China. The radical new idea is the current popular one about Chinese culture being passive, humble, docile, non assertive. That’s all bullshit. In schematic, here’s the old, the traditional, the classical vision of Chinese America.”
Chin believed, and continues to believe, that the cultural identities of the “Confucian” Chinese man or the serene and peaceful “oriental mind” are externally produced stereotypes, first introduced by white observers as a way to further dehumanize that which they could not understand. Because of his efforts, he has been criticized by many scholars as being misogynistic or homophobic, claims which Chin has boldly and outspokenly confronted in many of his writings, earning him notoriety and grudging respect. In Gunga Din Highway (1994), Chin articulates a visionary rejection of centuries of Chinese emasculation through stereotype, by presenting protagonists who identify with the warrior spirit of legendary Chinese figures such as Kwan Kung. It is no small sign of his prescience that his ideas are becoming more widely accepted in the modern American popular culture.
SCOPE NOTEThe Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional materials generated by Chin during the period 1940-2001. The collection is divided into four series spanning 112 archival boxes. The bulk of the collection consists of Chin’s manuscripts, including essays, articles, novels, scripts (film and theater) and notes. Also included are several correspondence files relating to Chin’s personal life and professional projects as well as extensive correspondence with other notable contemporary writers (including but not limited to Maxine Hong Kingston, James “Jimmie” Omura, Michi Weglyn, Mei Berssenbrugge). The second largest component of the collection are the subject files, which includes numerous folders relating to specific individuals, historical events and subjects. Altogether, the collection provides critical insight into Chin’s creative, personal and professional life as a contemporary Chinaman author and playwright. (It is important to note that Frank Chin refers to himself as a Chinaman, not a Chinese American, though he was born in America of Chinese decent.)
SERIES DESCRIPTION
Series I: Biographical Information, 1940-1998 (Box 1). This series consists of a wide variety of primary resources, including Chin’s baby book, astrological chart, awards and certificates, articles and interviews. The material in this series is arranged chronologically, then alphabetically within years; material with no date (n.d.) is placed at the end of the chronological order. Series II: Correspondence, 1950-2000 (Boxes 2-10). This series is divided into sub series as follows: Incoming correspondence by Subject includes family, personal and professional correspondence arranged alphabetically by the name of the subject. These subjects were indicated by Chin or are based on the preponderance of material in each folder. Incoming Correspondence Alpha Series contains correspondence arranged by Chin under alphabetical headings where the preponderance of material is not from one writer. Incoming Correspondence, Chronological covers miscellaneous correspondence collected from specific periods of time by Frank Chin. This sub series is maintained in its original format, (individual folders covering overlapping bulk dates) to reflect that these letters were grouped together by Chin. Outgoing Correspondence includes family, personal and professional correspondence; Dorothea Oppenheimer, author’s representative (incoming & outgoing) contains incoming and outgoing correspondence with Dorothea Oppenheimer, Chin’s agent from 1970-1980. Series III: Manuscripts, 1958-1998 (Boxes 10-40). This series is the largest in the collection. Contained herein are essays, short stories, novels, scripts (for film and theater) as well as notes in various forms, including published versions and early and final drafts. There are two important notes about this series: (1) Frank Chin was in the habit of starting correspondence to someone (friend, relative, acquaintance, professional contact, etc.) and then turning the correspondence into a writing project (such as a script or an essay) therefore those folders which indicate correspondence in this series actually contain partial correspondence and partial manuscript work in the same document; (2) due to the extensive breadth of Chin’s writing this series has not been sub divided into published and unpublished work for various reasons (including but not limited to chapter titles changing, printed excerpts of previously unpublished work that has since been published, titles of articles and essays differing where content is the same or visa versa) and has therefore been arranged here in one alphabetical order, arranged chronologically where titles are the same. Series IV: Subject Files, (1899-2000) 1941-2001 (Boxes 41-116). This series is divided into six sub series as follows: Combined Asian American Resources Project contains a considerable number of interview transcripts as well as a project summary and a few administrative files such as correspondence with and grants to the National Endowment for the Humanities; Media has been divided into groups based on the type of media or the individual being represented; Omura, James “Jimmie” contains; Weglyn, Michi contains personal and professional correspondence between Chin and Weglyn relating to a particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn (see also sub series World War II…, sub group Day of Remembrance); World War II & Japanese Internment in the U.S. has been divided into eight groups based upon available materials (note: the sub group Born in the USA: Japanese America 1889-1947 (formerly Return of the Fair Play Committee) were the original research files for the documentary Return of the Fair Play Committee, a project with which Chin as involved until the project was halted at which point Chin used the research to write the book Born in the USA); Miscellany contains those files whose topics cannot be categorized in the aforementioned groups. All of the sub series and sub groups are arranged alphabetically by title and chronologically within the same dates.
SEPARATIONS The following items have been catalogued separately and are available by searching Pegasus: Davis, Clyde, Brion, The Great American Novel, New York, Toronto, Farrar & Rinehart, inc, 1938. Mori, Toshio, The Chauvinist and Other stories, introduction by Hisaye Yamamoto, Los Angeles, Asian American Studies Center, University of California, c1979 Pacific Citizen, Vol. 83 No. 26; Vol. 85 No. 26; Vol. 87 No. 2007, 2015, 2023-2024; Vol. 88, No. 2025-2026, 2028, 2034, 2038, 2040-2042, 2044-2045, 2047-2048; Vol. 89 No. 2065, Vol. 90 No. 2091, 2095-2096, 1976-1980 CONTAINER LIST SERIES I: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Box Folder Contents 1 1 Lilac Chin (mother), correspondence with Frank and family photographs, 1935-1970 1 2 Frank Chin’s Baby Book “All About Our Baby,” ca. 1940 1 3 Report card, Crocker Highlands, Oakland public schools, June 13, 1951 1 4 James D. Phelan Award in Short Story, 1966 1 5 Astrological chart, 1968 1 6 California Association of Teachers of English Award of Merit, 1973 1 7 Frank Sullivan’s Christmas Greeting, New Yorker, Dec 23, 1974 1 8 “Charlie Chan’s Nemesis,” S.F. Examiner, Jan 19, 1975 1 9 “The Evolution of ‘Chickencoop’,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 1, 1975 1 10 Interview, “I’m Not Chinese. I’m A Chinaman,” City, April 2-15, 1975 1 11 Chew, Margaret, “Frank Chin: Chinese-American Manhood,” June 1975 1 12 Speaker of the Quarter photographs, Naval Supply Center, 1976 1 13 National Endowment of the Arts, Literature Fellowship Recipient Certificate, 1979 1 14 Turner, Morrie, Soul Corner, 1980 1 15 “Playwright Chin Supports Kashiwagi’s Charges,” Hokubei Mainichi, March 14, 1989 Interview, “I See Asian Culture, Asian Civilization in American Threatened,” The Study of Current English 2, Feb 1994 1 16 Audio on cassette, Printed version 1 17 Articles and reviews about Frank and Gunga Din Highway, 1994 1 18 Articles regarding Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee project, 1998 1 19 Photographs of Frank and Kathy Chin, children, and friends, n.d. 1 20 Photographs of Frank, n.d. 1 21 Photographs of Frank and others SERIES II: CORRESPONDENCE Box Folder Contents Incoming correspondence by subject 2 1 Including AATW and CW Players, 1966-1979 2 2 Book Printers/ Dealers, 1976 2 3 Burgess, Jackson ca, 1973 2 4 Chan, Jeff and Jeff, 1969 2 5 Chicken coop Chinaman, 1972-1975 2 6 Chin’s Parents, 1950 2 7 Chin Family, 1965-1978 2 8 Chin Family, 1968-1981 2 9 Chin, Suzanne (Sue) Ex-wife, 1969-1973 2 10 Chin, Kathleen, 1976-1979 2 11 Civil Liberties Public Education Fund (CLPEF), Japanese American Red Press, 1998 2 12 Fisher, 1958-1967 2 13 Film Stills, 1967 (See also Series III Media Film Stills) 2 14 Fujimoto, Isao 1970-1972 2 15 Greenfield Review/ Joe Bruhac, 1973-1974 2 16 Hattenbach, 1960-1963
3 1 Hohri, William / Redress, 1979 3 2-8 Inada, Lawson (with possible communication from Lawson under alias), 1970-1979 3 9 Independent TV Documentary on Resistance in Camps. (Includes Photographs of Chin) 1995 3 10 Intersection, (Frank Chin Board Member), 1978 3 11 Ishii, Amy Uno, 1978-1979 3 12 Ishii, David ca, 1973-1976 3 13 Kantor, Michael, at Noon Theatre, 1973- 1979 3 14 C King Screen Productions, 1969 3 15 KOED, 1973 3 16 Kuo, Alexander, 1973-1974 3 17 Lum, Wing Tek Correspondence. & Poems, 1973-1979 3 18 Mar, Laureen, 1976
4 1 Mar, Laureen, 1977-1979 5 2 Masaoka,
Mike with Hosokawa, Bill They Call Me Masaoka: 4 2 NEA, 1974-1976 4 3 Nee, (de Bary) Victor and Bret, 1971-1973 4 4 Quo, Beolah 1972- 1974 4 5 Riisna, Eve, 1971-1975 4 6 Sakamoto, Misao & Seriguchi, Karen, 1980 4 7 Scripts ‘Out’, 1975-1978 4 8 Silko, Leslie, 1974-1978 4 9 Slemmons, 1962-1972 4 10 Speaking Invitations, 1975-76 4 11 Speaking and Reading Engagements, 1975 4 12 Speaking Engagements, 1975-1978 4 13 Speaking Engagement Naval Supply Center, 1975 4 14 Spear, Lilah, 1963- 1976
5 1 Taylor, Ward, 1961-71 5 3 Tanaka, Togo Interview notes, 1976-1977 5 4 Correspondence with University of California (Berkeley), 1971-1972 5 5-6 Correspondence with University of Washington, 1976-1981 5 7 Wilson, Betty, 1963-1972 5 8 Wong, Shawn, 1971-1974 5 9 Wong, Shawn, 1974-1980 5 10 Yamamoto (de Soto), Hisaye (includes Photographs), 1971-1978 5 11-13 Collected subject correspondence, 1971-1979
Incoming Correspondence Alpha Series 6 1-2 “C”, Personal 1968-1978 6 3 “E”, 1972-1976 6 4 “G”, 1961-1978 6 5 “H”, 1968-1978 6 6 “H”, 1973-1978 6 7 “J”, 1965-1975 6 8 “K”, 1962-1985 6 9 “N”, 1974-1979 6 10 “R”, 1964-1979 6 11 “U”, 1972-1975 6 12 “W”, 1968-1981 6 13 “Y-Z”, 1970-1979
Incoming Correspondence, Chronological 7 1 Incoming correspondence, 1958-1965 7 2 Incoming correspondence, 1960-1978 7 3 Incoming correspondence, 1960-1981 7 4 Incoming correspondence, 1961-1971 7 5-6 Incoming correspondence, 1968-1977 7 7-8 Business correspondence, 1969-1974 7 9 Incoming correspondence 1970-1975 7 10 Incoming personal correspondence, 1970-1978 7 11 Incoming personal correspondence, 1970-1978 7 12 Incoming correspondence, 1970-1981 7 13 Business correspondence, 1971 7 14 Incoming correspondence, 1971 7 15 Incoming correspondence, 1971-72 7 16 Incoming correspondence, 1971-1978 7 17 Correspondence, 1971-1979 7 18 Business correspondence, 1972 7 19 Incoming correspondence, 1972-1978 7 20 Contracts, invoices and correspondence, 1973-1976 7 21 Incoming correspondence, 1973-1978 7 22 Correspondence, 1974-1977 7 23 Incoming correspondence, 1974-1979
8 1 Incoming personal correspondence, 1975-1978 8 2 Business correspondence, 1976 8 3 Incoming correspondence, 1976 8 4 Incoming correspondence, 1976 8 5 Incoming correspondence, 1976-1981 8 6 Intersection correspondence1977 8 7 Correspondence, 1978 8 8 Correspondence with Twin Falls Times News, 1978 8 9 Incoming correspondence, 1978 8 10 Incoming correspondence, 1978 8 11 Incoming correspondence, 1978-1979 8 12 Publishing correspondence, 1979 8 13 Incoming correspondence, 1979 8 14 Misc correspondence, 1979 8 15 Business correspondence, 1979-1980 8 16 Incoming correspondence, 1979-1984 8 17 Incoming correspondence, 1982 8 18 Incoming correspondence, 1983 8 19 Correspondence, 1987-1998 8 20 Incoming correspondence, 1988 8 21 Correspondence, 1988 8 22 Incoming correspondence, 1990 8 23 Incoming correspondence, 1994 8 24 Incoming correspondence, 1995-1998 8 25 Misc and notes, 1995-1999 8 26 Business correspondence, 1996 8 27 Business correspondence, 1996-1999 8 28 Incoming correspondence, 1997-1998 8 29 Correspondence, (Includes Photographs of Frank), 1998 8 30 Correspondence, (Frank’s Stroke), 1999-2000 8 31 Incoming correspondence, 2001
Outgoing 9 1-2 “H”, (includes Sierer, Ed) 1968 9 3 1969-1970 9 4 1970 9 5 1971 9 6 1971-1981 (Including Inada, Lawson poetry prose and photographs) 9 7 1972 9 8 1973 9 9 ca. 1973 9 10 1974 (including Rissna, Ene) 9 11 1978-1979 (including Wong, Suzi) 9 12 1980 9 13 1980 (including Sakamato, Misao and Karen Seriguchi) 9 14 1983 9 15 1988 (including Universal Asian Lit. Correspondence,) 9 16 1992 9 17 1993-1994 (Ishii, David) 9 18 1997 9 19 1998 9 20 International Examiner, n.d. 9 21 Regarding writing a book about Japanese Americans, n.d. Oppenheimer, Dorothea, author’s representative (incoming & outgoing) 9 22-28 With and concerning Frank, 1961-1972 10 1-18 With and concerning Frank, 1 of 2, 1980 10 19 Abominable Snowman, 1968 10 20 After the Opera, 1975-1977
SERIES III: MANUSCRIPTS AND WRITINGS
Box Folder Contents
10 21 AIIIEEEEE! 1 of 4, 1974 11 1-3 AIIIEEEEE! 2 –4 of 4, 1956, 1961, n.d. 11 4 AIIIEEEEE! Clips, 1974-1976 (see oversize) 11 5 AIIIEEEEE! Preface and introduction, 1973-1979 (see oversize) 11 6 Reviews of AIIIEEEEE! and Yardbird 3, 1974-1976 11 7 Asian American
Studies III: Alienation and the Asian American, Spring, 11 8 American More or Less, 1976 11 9 The American
Mountains, “Make All Things News”, Scripts and Research 11 10-11 The American Mountains, 1-2 of 2, 1968-1969 11 12-14 American Peek A Boo
Kabuki, World War II, and Me, A Play in Three Acts, 12 1 American Wilderness, 1968 12 2 “America’s
Concentration Camps”, Willamette Valley Observer, Nov. 17, 12 3-5 Archie Moore Project: 1967 12 6 Architecture, 1966-1967 12 7 Asian American Broadcast paper, 1972 12 8 Becker, Raymond T. (Tiny), 1969 The Big AIIIEEEEE! 12 9-11 Master, 1-3 of 3 ca. 1990 12 12 Original, 1 of 4 ca. 1990 13 1-3 Original, 2-4 of 4 ca. 1990 13 4 Black History and Culture, 1969 13 5 Black History Operetta, “Our Country Too!” 1969 13 6 The Boys of Mountainview San Jose, Script, ca. 1992 13 7 Brakeman, 1966-1969 13 8 Brakeman, n.d. 13 9 Budd Boeticher: Westerns, 1960-1970
Bulletproof Buddhists and other essays 13 10-11 Bulletproof
Buddhists and other essays, authors pages, signed, 1-2 of 14 1-2 Bulletproof Buddhists and other essays, 3-4 of 4, n.d 14 3 Bunny Hop, 1978 14 4 Bus to America; pub. San Francisco Fault, 1971 (see oversize) 14 5 The California Pelican, Vol. 66, Frank Chin editor, Feb-May, 1960 14 6 Chapple, Stanley, 1967 Charlie Chan on Maui 14 7 manuscript, 1973 14 8 manuscript, 1975 14 9 I- My Old Man, n.d. 14 10 II-Twang Slanty’s World War Two, n.d. 14 11 Ch. 3 Maui, The Valley Isle, n.d. 14 12 IV-The Daughter of Charlie Chan, n.d. 14 13 IV, n.d. 14 14 V- “The Eat and Run Midnight People”, n.d. 14 15 VI- Longtime Californ’ [sic], n.d. 14 16 VII- n.d. 14 17 VIII- Excerpt “Dear, Kids”, 1966-1976 15 1 IX- Moby Tom, n.d. 15 2 X-The All Oriental Bambi, n.d. 15 3 XI- To Die in Chinatown, 1973 15 4 Epilog- Charlie Chan’s Number One Son Remembers, n.d. 15 5 Ch. 1-6, n.d. 15 6-7 Ch. 1-3, nd. 15 8 Ch. 4 and 5, n.d. 15 9 Epilog-Charlie Chan’s #1 Son Remembers, 1978 15 10 “The Eat and Run Midnight People”, n.d. 15 11 Epilog, Colombia University Writing Division, ca. 1978 15 12 “Harry Hom speaks: Childhood”, 1974-1975 15 13 “Harry Hom speaks: GEE, POP!”, 1974 15 14 “Harry Hom speaks: Longfingers Mama Fu’s Takeout”, 1974-1975 15 15 Hawaii, n.d. 15 16 Gee Pop, 6, 1975 15 17 The Iron Moonhunter, Ch. 10, n.d. 15 18 Ch. 7 Longtime Californ’ [sic], n.d. 16 1 Raw, 1974-1977 16 2 Ruby Chow, 1976 16 3 Tam goes back to Frisco. 4, 1974-1975 16 4 Tam Goes Back to Hawaii, n.d. 16 5 Tam Goes to New York: To do Longfingers on TV, 1974 16 6 Writing Division, Slanty’s World War II, n.d. 16 7 Two- Shopping Bags & The Opera, 1975 16 8 “Charlie Chan Racist”, Intellectual Digest, July 1973 16 9 “Charlie
Chan Remembers”, “Confessions a #1 Son”, Ramparts, March
The Chickencoop Chinaman 16 10-14 American Place Theater, San Francisco, 1972 16 15 Reviews, New York Open, 1972 16 16 American
Place Theatre, news, vol. IV no.4, includes an article by Frank 16 17 American
Place Theatre, article “The Theatre Off Broadway” The New 17 1 Script Copy, 1975 17 2 87 pgs. n.d. 17 3 87 pgs. n.d. 17 4 128 pgs. n.d. 17 5 Final Draft, 1972 17 6 First Draft, stage version, 1972 17 7 Notes, miscellaneous, 1975-1980 17 8 CSU Long Beach, photographs including Chin portraits, 1975 17 9 Reviews, 1972 17 10 Scenes, n.d. 18 1 American Place Theatre-script, review, handbills, 1972 18 2 Editions, notes, n.d.
Pregnant pause 18 3-4 Pregnant Pause, Seattle, 1-2 of 2, 1972 18 5 Pregnant Pause, n.d. 18 6 Pregnant
Pause, copy #3, Asian American Studies, University of 18 7 The Chickencoop Chinaman was an Education, n.d 18 8 The Children’s Television Workshop, n.d. 18 9 Chilean politics, The Political Parties of Chile, n.d. Chinaman’s Chance 18 10 “Chinaman” n.d. 18 11 Chinese American Theatre, unpublished chapter, ca. 1981 18 12 Chinaman’s Chance, 1978 18 13 Chinaman’s Chance, n.d. 18 14 Chinaman’s Chance, ca. 1980-1990 19 1-2 Chinaman’s Chance, n.d. 19 3 A Portrait of Changing Chinese-America, 1971 19 4 Chinks and the CACA, East West, 1970 (see oversize) 19 5-7 Pacific & Frisco, n.d. 19 8-11 Pacific & Frisco R.R. CO, n.d. 19 12 Chinatown Mortuary, first draft, 1976 19 13 Chinatown Rooms, n.d. 19 14-17 “Chinese American
Literature”, old draft from The Big AIIIEEEEE, 1 of 4, 19 18 Chinese American Theatre, 1976 19 19-20 Chinese Family/GEE POP! 1-2 of 2, n.d. 20 1 A Chinese Lady Dies, coversheet, n.d. 20 2-5 Uncorrected first draft to A Chinese Lady Dies, 1964-1967 20 6 Columbia River film proposal, n.d. 20 7-9 The Comic, n.d. 20 10-11 The Comic/The Cosquillas Ride, includes correspondence, ca. 1981 20 12 Coming Home to The Sixties, n.d. 20 13 “Confessions of the
Chinatown Cowboy”, “Bulletin of Concerned Asian 20 14 “Confessions of the Chinatown Cowboy”, n.d. 20 15 Confessions of the Chinatown Cowboy, photocopies, n.d. 20 16 “Confessions of a # 1 Son”, content page, n.d. 20 17 “Confessions of a # 1 Son”, n.d. 20 18 “Confessions of a # 1 Son”, Ramparts magazine, March 1973 20 19 “Construct a Script Contest” by Chin, Correspondence to Gerry Gawne, n.d. 21 1-2 The Cosquillas, n.d. Conscience and Constitution 21 3 Project description, ca. 1996 21 4-7 Fair Play
Committee, Civil Liberties Education Fund, correspondence, 21 8 Progress report, Fall 1997 21 9 Impressions, 1998 21 10 Script, May 15, 1998 (Floppy Disk, reproduction available on request) 21 11 Fair Play
Committee, A Story of Japanese American Script, Civil 21 12 1998 21 13 Website, 1998 21 14 June 10, 2000 21 15 Complete script, n.d. 21 16 Incomplete draft, n.d. 22 1-2 Incomplete draft, n.d. 22 3 Days of Remembrance, n.d 22 4 Dear Lo Fan Fangwai Whitney Honey Babe, 1970 22 5 The Death and Life of James Earl Deaver, 1969 22 6 Deaver, James Earl, n.d. 22 7 Decision Series, 1969 22 8 Deserter, 1969 22 9 “A Dime For Your Time”, Redress, 1978 Dirigible 22 10-14 N.d. 23 1-4 N.d. 23 5 Original manuscript pages, Ch. 15-19, n.d. 23 6 Ch. III, Fall 1972 23 7 Ch. 11, n.d. 23 8 Ch. 12, inc., n.d. 23 9 Ch. 14, n.d. 23 10 Ch. 17, incomplete, n.d. Miscellaneous original manuscript pages 23 11 Pages 255-280, n.d. 23 12-16 N.d. 23 17-19 Donald Duk, Original Manuscript pages, n.d. “Don’t Pen Us Up in Chinatown”, New York Times 23 20 October 1972 23 21 November 1972 23 22 Dragon Diary, 1983 24 1 “Dragon Ran on Tennis Shoes”, Chin, n. d. 24 2 “The Eat and Run Midnight People”, ca. 1980-1990 El Chino 24 3 Ashland, Lizard City, 1977 24 4 Ashland, Raw, 1976-1977 24 5 Ashland Story, 1977 24 6 A Chinatown movie about me as a western movie, Aug. 7, 1976 24 7 Death in Disneyland, n.d. 24 8 Dog Biscuit, Charlie Chan Jr. 1976 24 9 Mama Fufu, 1973-1974 24 10 Raw, 1974 24 11 Ashland,
Lizard City, The Forging of Weapons (original manuscript 24 12 Come For Summer, n.d. 24 13 Correspondence, 1984 24 14 A Death Somewhere, n.d. 24 15 Enough of that Noise, n.d. 24 16 Grey Floor, n.d. 24 17 …Makes Things Grow, n.d. 24 18 Play the Label, n.d. 24 19 Shrine of Burnt Punks, n.d. 24 20 The Endless War, n.d. 24 21 Farewell to Manzanar, 1976 24 22 Film Criticism, 1968-1969 24 23 Food For
All His Dead, James D. Phelan Awards in literature and art, 24 24 Food For All His Dead, 1967 24 25 For Better Americans in a Greater America, n.d. 24 26 Fred, 1977 24 27 Gee Pop, Charlie Chan on Maui, The Greasy Chop Suey, n.d. 24 28 “Goong Hai
Fot Choy”, from A Chinese Lady Dies, from 19 24 29 Harry Hom Raw, 1976 24 30 Harry Hom Speaks, Annie Moy, 1975-1976 24 31 Have You Seen Liberation? 1973 24 32 The
Heroes of K2, 36 Factory Workers Bubblegum Cards, K2 24 33 The History of Japanese American in Literature, n.d. 25 1-10 Home Games, a documentary novel, signed September 7, 1997 25 11 Honey Bucket handbill, Director Frank Chin, signed by company, 1976 25 12-13 The Horse, n.d. 25 14 How to Watch a Chinese Movie with the Right “I”, n.d. 25 15 I Am Talking to
the Strategist, Sun Tzu about Life When the Subject of War 25 16 If Anything Happens
to Me Put a Copy of This Review in a Plain White 25 17 Infinite Energy, 1968-1969 25 18 “In Praise of Famous Men”, James Matsumoto Omura, 1912-1994 25 19 “In Search of the Asian Northwest,” Asian Northwest Weekly, 1978 The Iron Moonhunter 25 20 The Iron Moonhunter, n.d. 26 1-4 manuscript, 1975 26 5-9 Charlie Chan on Maui, Ch. 8-12, n.d. 26 10 Kids, 1976 26 11 Columbia University, Writing Division, Shopping Bags, ca. 1978 “Is Japanese America Ignorant of its History?” 26 12 Rafu Shimpo, F, Chin, January 27, 1983 James Omura, Nisei Newsman 26 13-14 drafts, July 1997 26 15-17 drafts, n.d. 26 18 JAL (Japanese Air Lines) 1969 Japanese America: Contemporary Perspectives on Internment 27 1 Japanese
America: Contemporary Perspectives on Internment, draft of 27 2-3 Japanese Americans II: Writings on the Relocation Internment Day of Remembrance, 1978-1979 Original Manuscript Pages, Correspondence and Oofty Goofty 27 4 Original Manuscript Pages, Correspondence and Oofty Goofty, 1979 27 5 Correspondence, El Chino and Oofty Goofty, 1974-1978 27 6 1975-1976 27 7 Original
Manuscript Pages, Correspondence and Oofty 27 8-9 Correspondence and Manuscript Originals, 1978-1979 27 10 Miscellaneous, Manuscript pages and Correspondence, 1976-1980 27 11 Outgoing correspondence, miscellaneous manuscript pages, 1976-1978 27 12 Miscellaneous original manuscript pages, includes correspondence,br> 1976-1977 27 13 Miscellaneous Manuscript pages and correspondence, 1974-1975 28 1 Jean Carey Bond, 1975-1977 28 2 Just Plain Lars, Ch. 2, Tuning the Guitar, n.d. 28 3 Kantor, Michael, photographs/written material, 1975-1976 28 4 The Kid Inside the Dragon: An Art and a Reality of Chinese-America, filmbr> script by William Wong and Chin, 1971 28 5 “King Pu is Unfair to Chinese”, Chin, New York Times, March 24, 1974 28 6 Kwan Kung, 1975-1976 28 7 Laguna Pueblo Film Project, the script, 1980 28 8 No Place Like Home Land Reform in Vietnam: Prosterman, n.d. 28 9 The Last Organized Resistance, Rafu Shimpo supplement Xerox, 12/1981 28 10 Lone Ranger, n.d. 28 11 Lorenzo Milam, manuscript pages, n.d. 28 12 Me and Freddy at the Festival, The Sky River Rock Festival, Chin, ca.br> 1980-1990 28 13 The Midnight Culture/ “My Friend the Pornographer”, n.d. 28 14 Mom’s in Paraguay, 1978 28 15 The Most Popular Book in China, ca. 1980-1990 28 16 Mustangs, n.d.. 28 17 My Dad, n.d. 29 1-3 My Name is Donald Duk, I Am Not a Cartoon, n.d. 29 4 The Nisei Sociological View of the Nisei, n.d. 29 5 Number One Son’s Last Chance, n.d. Notes 29 6 Betaville, Chin Progress, 1968 29 7 Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, Literary Notes, n.d. 29 8 Lin Chong and the Rescue at Wild Bear Forest, Episode 1, n.d. 29 9 “The House that Tai Ming Built”, August 23,1970 29 10 Literary Notes, 1967 29 11 Literature Notes, 1975-1977 29 12 No-No Boy, 1957 The Only Real Day 29 13 draft, 1960 29 14-15 draft, n.d. Oofty Goofty 29 16 David Ishii, copy, 1980-1981 29 17 Original, 1980-1981 29 18 Outs, David Ishi, 1980-1981 29 19 Rough draft, 1981 30 1 Rough draft, November, 1981 30 2-3 A play in
three acts, actors Theatre of Louisville, State Theatre of December 15, 1982 30 4-6 Original, two acts, 1983 30 7 Original #1, 1979 30 8 Original manuscript pages, n.d. 30 9 Pgs. 14-73, n.d. 31 1-4 San Francisco State University, School of Ethic Studies, n.d. 31 5-7 Partial, n.d. 31 8 Miscellaneous manuscript pages, n.d. 31 9 drafts and notes, (1974),1980 31 10 drafts and notes, n.d. 31 11-12 The Happa Boy, n.d. 31 13 Opera-Shopping Bags, 1976 31 14 Our Life is War, n.d. 32 1 The Proof of Loyalty, n.d. 32 2 Questionnaires, 1968 32 3 Race & Film, 1970-1977 32 4 Railroad Folklore, manuscript, 1969 32 5 Rashomon Road: The Tao to San Diego, n.d. Redress 32 6 Carbon copy manuscript pages, 1983 32 7-9 Original manuscript pages, 1980-1981 32 10 Original articles, plus copies of letters, 1978 32 11-12 Resistance, 1982 32 13 For Japanese Americans? What For? A Dime for your Time(n.d.) 32 14 Redwoods, 1968 (see oversize) 32 15 Rescue at Wild
Boar Forest, Water Margin Press-012-Chin:Comic Books, 32 16 Rescue at Wild Boar Forest, Episode 2, n.d. 32 17 “Roaming Inside the Chickencoop Chinaman ’s Pregnant Pause”, n.d.br> (see also Chickencoop Chinaman) 32 18 “Roaming Inside the Chickencoop Chinaman”, n.d. 33 1-10 Ruby Chow by Ruby Chow, as told to a godson, Frank Chin, n.d. 33 11 Seattle Magazine articles, columns and reviews “Anti-Racism”, Hollywood Style, June 1968 “The Thinking Man’s Star Trek”, July 1968 “Shooting Up the Ghetto”, August 1968 “Freak Out at Sky River”, October 1968 All the Lonely People, November 1968 “Nights in the Gardens of Rolf”, December 1968 “Assaulting the Senses”, January 1969 “Year of the Monkey”, February 1969 “The Faces of Cassavetes”, April 1968 At Large, May 1969 At Large, July 1969 N.D. “The Cinemantics of War” “Gift of the Mail-Order Magi” 32 12 September 11, 2001, Pearl Harbor Revisited, 2001 Shakespeare in Chinatown 33 13-16 first draft, unedited, (1-4 of 8), ca. 1977
34 1-4 first draft, unedited, (5-8 of 8), ca. 1977 34 5-8 signed Frank Chin, revised April, 1979 34 9-11 manuscript originals, 1977, n.d. 34 12 “Shooting up the Ghetto”, ca. 1980-1990 34 13 “Shopping Bags Fantasy”, n.d. 34 14 “Shopping Bags”, 1974-1976 “The Sixties: Hail & Farewell”, The Weekly, Aug. 1978 34 15 Acid-free photocopies (see oversize) 34 16 Sizwe Bansi is
Dead, by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Htshona 34 17 “Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter than Air Fair”, n.d. 35 1 “The Solace of Trash and Junk”, At Large, ca. 1980-1990 35 2 Sunday Papers, April 12,1970 35 3 Talk Story, Hawaii, (Chin Project), 1978 This is Not an Autobiography 35 4 manuscript, n.d. 35 5 manuscript, ca. 1980-1990 35 6 Chin, n.d. 35 7 Twang Slanty’s WWII, n.d. 35 8 Tamesa,
Uhachi and Kay, Father and Daughter manuscript pages, Ch. 1 University Asian Literature 35 9 The
Falsification and Recovery of Japanese American 35 10 The
Heroic Tradition; Our Fathers; Arch in a Mexican 35 11 Mandate of Heaven, n.d. 35 12 Universal Asian Literature, n.d. 35 13 Taro,
Urashima, manuscript includes portion of Mandate of 35 14 Voyages to the Moon, n.d. 35 15 “W. Whitman Walked this Land”, 1968
Water Margin Press 35 16 Water Margin Press, 1988-1989 35 17 Water Margin Press, Gordon Greene, Lin Chong’s Revenge, n.d. 35 18 Lin Chong’s Revenge, master, Water Mark Press, 1 of 2, n.d. 35 19 Lin Chong’s Revenge, master, Water Mark Press, 2 of 2, n.d. 35 20 Water
Margin Press, correspondence, drafts of episodes 4-7 and 36 1 Water
Margin Press, correspondence, drafts of episodes 4-7 and 36 2 Way out West, in the 60’s, n.d. 36 3 Westerns, Way out West, n.d. 36 4 SYEP/What I did last summer, 1978 36 5 Asian American
Position Paper 999, white supremacy and Asian-America 36 6 “Who Runs Asian American Studies?” Amerasia vol.16 no.2, 1990 36 7 Writing Samples and Outline of Future Novel, 1968 36 8 “The Year of the Dog: San Francisco”, two weeks in February 1970 The Year of the Dragon 36 9 New York City, 1972 36 10 American Place Theatre, 1974 36 11 reviews, 1974 36 12 Theatre in America-net, 1974 36 13-14 Asian American Theatre Workshop version, including opening first act of Showcase AATW activities, 1974 36 15 Cimno, Michael, Year of the Dragon Reviews, 1985 36 16 Asian American Theatre Workshop, (see oversize for flyer) n.d. 36 17 manuscript, n.d. 37 1-3 Script, n.d. 37 4 flyer, 1983 37 5 Photographs
of Frank Chin and film stills directed by Chin, 37 6 The Year of the Ram, King Tu- Seattle, 1967 37 7 “They Yellow Critics of Yellow Writers”, Frank Chin, 1976 37 8 Yellow Seattle, Frank Chin, n.d. 37 9 Yellow Seattle, Frank Chin, n.d. (see also Box 111 for oversize material) 37 10 Yellows and Sex-notes, 1973-1974 37 11 “Yes, Young Daddy”, Frank Chin, n.d. 37 12 “Yes, Young Daddy”, pg.17, n.d. 37 13 Young Man/”Yes Young Daddy”, Frank Chin, n.d. Miscellany 37 14 Pages of Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co., n.d. 37 15-16 Chinatown, n.d. 37 17 Oofty
Goofty and the Comic, manuscript pages and correspondence, 37 18 Correspondence and manuscript drafts, 1 of 2, 1980 38 1 Correspondence and manuscript pages, 2 of 2, 1980 38 2 Correspondence and notes, 1980 38 3 | ||||||||
