"The Magic Fish" is about a second-generation Vietnamese American teenager, Tiến, who uses fairy tales to help his mother learn English. "I based a lot of the characters in 'The Magic Fish' on the ...
“And then beautiful and good Yeh-hsien reveals her true identity, and she becomes wife to the king of To’han, and lives happily ever after …” Does that passage read like a Cinderella tale? In China, ...