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We have to allow ourselves the freedom to make mistakes, including cultural mistakes, in our first drafts. I believe it's okay to get cultural details wrong in your first draft. It's okay if stereotypes emerge. It just means that your experience is limited, that you're human.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Allow Believe Cultural Details Draft Drafts Emerge Experience First Freedom Get Human Including Just Limited Make Means Mistakes Okay Our Ourselves Stereotypes Wrong You Your I Believe

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It's a big deal to reveal your friend's deepest truth, your friend's deepest secret. And for all of us, when we do these big things, there's a complexity of motivation that comes behind that decision.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Behind Big Big Deal Big Things Complexity Deal Decision Deepest Friend Motivation Reveal Secret Things Truth Us Your

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The project that I did between 'Boxer & Saints' was 'The Shadow Hero,' which is illustrated by Sonny Liew, an artist who lives in Singapore.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Artist Between Boxer Did Hero Illustrated Lives Project Saints Shadow Singapore Which Who

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My experience of Chinese culture is indirect, through echoes. When I approach the cashier at my local Chinese supermarket, they switch to English before I've even said a word. They somehow know that I'm not quite Chinese enough.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Approach Before Chinese Chinese Culture Culture Echoes English Enough Even Experience Indirect Know Local Quite Said Somehow Supermarket Switch Through Word

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A lot of Asians and Asian-Americans have liver problems. If you basically ask anybody who is Asian, they or one of their relatives will have some sort of a liver issue, and the liver actually falls into the jurisdiction of the gastroenterologist.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Actually Anybody Asian Asians Ask Basically Falls Issue Liver Lot Problems Relatives Some Sort Who Will You

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Comics are such a powerful educational tool. Simply put, there are certain kinds of information that are best communicated through sequential visuals.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Best Certain Comics Educational Information Kinds Powerful Put Simply Through Tool Visuals

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At any comic book convention in America, you'll find aspiring cartoonists with dozens of complex plot ideas and armloads of character sketches. Only a small percentage ever move from those ideas and sketches to a finished book.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: America Any Aspiring Book Cartoonists Character Comic Comic Book Complex Convention Dozens Ever Find Finished Ideas Move Only Percentage Plot Sketches Small Those You

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Ch'in Shih-huang is the first emperor of China. He united seven separate kingdoms into a single nation. He built the Great Wall and was buried with the terra-cotta soldiers. The Chinese have mixed feelings about him. They're proud of the nation he created, but he was a maniacal tyrant.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: About Built Buried China Chinese Created Emperor Feelings First Great Great Wall He Him Kingdoms Maniacal Mixed Mixed Feelings Nation Proud Separate Seven Single Soldiers Tyrant United Wall

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Many Japanese families moved to Taiwan during the occupation. Then, when the war ended, they were forced to move back. And at the macro level, the Taiwanese had every reason to cheer when the Japanese left. The Japanese military could often be incredibly brutal. The Taiwanese lived as second-class citizens on their own land.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Back Brutal Cheer Citizens Could Ended Every Families Forced Had Incredibly Japanese Land Left Level Lived Many Military Move Moved Occupation Often Own Reason Second-Class Taiwan Taiwanese Then War Were

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For 'Boxers & Saints,' I started by reading a couple of articles on the Internet, then writing a really rough outline, then getting more hardcore into the research. I went to a university library once a week for a year, year and a half.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Articles Boxers Couple Getting Half Hardcore Internet Library More Once Once A Week Outline Reading Really Research Rough Saints Started Then University Week Writing Year

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Biography

Nationality: Chinese

Type: Writer

Born: August 9th, 1973

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