Uploaded March 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This is a quick book summary of American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang. This channel discusses and reviews books, novels, and short stories through drawing...poorly.
Transcript: This is a story about a boy named Jin who grows up in America and struggles to fit in at school. He makes friends with a boy named Wei-Chen and as Jin enters middle school, he develops a crush on a girl named Amelia.
Jin eventually asks Amelia out on a date to a movie and they have a great time. However, one of the boys at school asks him to not date her.
Depressed, Jin ends up kissing Wei-Chen’s girlfriend and when Jin is confronted by Wei-Chen, he speaks badly of Wei-Chen, saying that they are nothing alike.
After making a wish to become Caucasian, Jin transforms into a White male in high school named Danny. As Danny, Jin learns to tolerate a visit from his Asian cousin, Chin-Kee. Jin gets into a fight with Chin-Kee and Jin knocks Chin-Kee’s head off to reveal that Chin-Kee is actually a powerful monkey god.
The monkey god requests that Jin changes his appearance from Danny back to Jin, which he does. The monkey god also explains that Wei-Chen is his son and that he came down from the sky to learn about humans, but rebelled against him and has been on his own ever since.
In the end, Jin meets up with Wei-Chen at a restaurant and the two talk things out.
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Music: Prelude No. 21 by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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This is a quick book summary of American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang. This channel discusses and reviews books, novels, and short stories through drawing...poorly.
Transcript: This is a story about a boy named Jin who grows up in America and struggles to fit in at school. He makes friends with a boy named Wei-Chen and as Jin enters middle school, he develops a crush on a girl named Amelia.
Jin eventually asks Amelia out on a date to a movie and they have a great time. However, one of the boys at school asks him to not date her.
Depressed, Jin ends up kissing Wei-Chen’s girlfriend and when Jin is confronted by Wei-Chen, he speaks badly of Wei-Chen, saying that they are nothing alike.
After making a wish to become Caucasian, Jin transforms into a White male in high school named Danny. As Danny, Jin learns to tolerate a visit from his Asian cousin, Chin-Kee. Jin gets into a fight with Chin-Kee and Jin knocks Chin-Kee’s head off to reveal that Chin-Kee is actually a powerful monkey god.
The monkey god requests that Jin changes his appearance from Danny back to Jin, which he does. The monkey god also explains that Wei-Chen is his son and that he came down from the sky to learn about humans, but rebelled against him and has been on his own ever since.
In the end, Jin meets up with Wei-Chen at a restaurant and the two talk things out.
Facebook Page - facebook.com/pages/Minute-Book-Reports/1148331925195691
Paper by Fifty Three was used to make this video.
Music: Prelude No. 21 by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: chriszabriskie.com/preludes
Artist: chriszabriskie.com
