"A lot of this had to do with resenting the suggestion when I was starting out as a writer that I should write about the Asian American experience and have Asian American characters. I thought the suggestion was, in and of itself, racist, that I was being told I shouldnât step out of the ethnic literature box, that I should know my place. But I didnât want to be labeled as an ethnic writer, and I wasnât interested in writing about being an immigrant or setting stories in Old Asia. I had no connections to those stories. They werenât my stories. So essentially my reaction to those suggestions was, Fuck youâŚ"
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On not writing about Asian American characters initially in ââI Took It As a Dare,â An Interview with Don Leeâ in Superstition Review
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