chinese canadians

Memoir of the author describing his experiences as a Chinese Canadian immigrant who became the first Asian American superhero to star in a Marvel movie. Describes his childhood growing up in China and being reunited with his parents at the age of four, his efforts to please his family, his estrangement from them, and his career change from accountant to actor that eventually led to his family's reconciliation.

A true story of the author's family--of her grandmother, brought from China as a young concubine by a sojourner to the New World, of the man's wife and children who would be left behind, and of the author's own discovery of those children six decades later.