American Knees

American Knees
Author	Shawn Wong
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	University of Washington Press
Publication date	1995
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	240 pp
ISBN	978-0-295-98496-4
OCLC	57342291
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 22
LC Class	PS3573.O583 A8 2005

American Knees is a novel written by Shawn Wong, first published in 1995 by Simon & Schuster, and later republished by the University of Washington Press in 2005.^[1]^[2]

Wong's book depicts the love life of an East Asian American man with three women. The novel chronicles romantic chapters in the life of Raymond Ding, a Chinese American university administrator who first marries and divorces a Chinese American woman, then dates and breaks up with a hapa (biracial) younger woman, and later gets involved with a Vietnamese American co-worker who is haunted by memories of the Vietnam War.

Publishing history

Simon & Schuster, 1995 ^{[citation needed]}
Scribner, 1996 ^{[citation needed]}
University of Washington Press, 2005

Movie version

A film adaptation, called Americanese (2006), was written and directed by Eric Byler, produced by Lisa Onodera, and stars Chris Tashima as Raymond Ding. The film was acquired by IFC Films.

References

^ Hsu, Hua. "The Asian-American Canon Breakers". The New Yorker. The New Yorker. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
^ "American Knees". UWA Press. Retrieved 22 August 2024.