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BBC News By Yvette Tan image copyrightGetty Images image captionThe story plays on the trope of the Chinese character always being the Kung Fu Guy Willis Wu is not a Kung Fu Guy. Instead, much to his dismay, the struggling Asian American actor is only ever cast in parts like Generic Asian Man Number One or Background Oriental Male. He is, however, the main protagonist of the satirical novel Interior Chinatown, which last month won one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the US, the National Book Award for fiction. Its author, Charles Yu, says he wrote the book to "create a space where ...

news The novel taking on Hollywood’s Asian tropes © Getty Images The story plays on the trope of the Chinese character always being the Kung Fu Guy Willis Wu is not a Kung Fu Guy. Instead, much to his dismay, the struggling Asian American actor is only ever cast in parts like Generic Asian Man Number One or Background Oriental Male. He is, however, the main protagonist of the satirical novel Interior Chinatown, which last month won one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the US, the National Book Award for fiction. Its author, Charles Yu, says he wrote the book to "create a space ...